Farmers! Explorers! Creative minds and hands! The next explorations participatory workshop is coming. We will show examples of how we can transform the resources of a farm into new products, services and experiences, beyond the territory branding… What could a farm be? Discover more about… Read More
Adding value through developing new products, services and/orexperiences. Saturday, 07 December 2019, 10.00 – 16.00. This workshop aims to discuss current practices and experiments that help add new value on the farm. Bringing together different disciplines, the workshop will help facilitate idea and concept generation on potential new… Read More
LET’S GET INSPIRED BY THE MATERIAL! 16+ 17. OF NOVEMBER 2019 With Theresa Bader. Freshly sheared raw wool from local sheep gets washed, coloured with sourced material, carded, felted and processed to a product. This workshop is exploring the relationship between sourcing and making with wool, as well as… Read More
muu-baa is growing! New actions are fermenting in our network. We are looking for: a photographer and videomaker to document Tangible Farm-Fictions explorations, where artists, designers and farmers will act and work together on the field, in… Read More
Italian independent designer researching the social, cultural, economical and environmental impact that production processes have or could have on society, with a focus on investigating and prototyping alternative scenarios and products.Currently working on a long term research titled Syntropic Materials.An attempt to design a regenerative natural material production process… Read More
I am a freelance journalist, working crossover in the fields of culture&arts, sociology and agriculture, which is for me inspiring and helps fermenting new ideas. Read More
Combining Practices, Generating Value(s), Materialising Ideas. Muu-baa is glad to announce Tangible Farm-Fictions, its new call for projects and explorations. Designers, artists and any other inventors are invited to collaborate with farmers in South Tyrol and surroundings, to question farming, to explore visions and solutions, to combine practices and… Read More
Hi, I am working at the Free University of Bozen as cultural anthropologist within a project on cultural heritage and cultural production. I am interested in keeping updated and having the opportunity to participate in the coming activities of the muu-baa network. Read More
Specialists from agricultural economics, farming, innovation and sustainable environmental development met with eco-social designers on June 1, 2019 (the first sunny day!) to discuss the state of the art of the “Manure Economy” in South Tyrol as a means to develop new ideas. The results? A unique collective mapping… Read More
Cow waste as a valuable resource: opportunities and challenges Saturday 01 June 2019, 10.00 – 16.00 Bistro Wiesl, Bozen-Bolzano Dairy and beef farming make an essential contribution to the economic and social life in South Tyrol, building on the rich heritage of farming practices… Read More
The duo Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, London) arrives in Bozen- Bolzano: Tuesday, May 14 at 18:00 Cooking Sections will tell the public about their work CLIMAVORE: What is Above Is What Is Below, at the Free University of Bolzano, classroom C004. The… Read More
Branding and marketing policies, especially in the agri-food sector, to what extent and from what perspective do they favour the territory to which they refer? Do the recognition of a territorial identity, transmitted through product branding, and the… Read More
17 November 2018, 9.00 – 16.00 at Frötscherhof. We shape our landscapes and our landscapes shape us. This is the second co-design workshop from muu-baa, an agri-cultural network of explorations. Sign up now for to secure your free place. Read More
Experimenting together with Simon Steinhauser on a mountain farm in South Tyrol with various alternative forms of agriculture and expanding the function of a farm. Producing edible high quality products in small scale and mainly serving them in the own farm restaurant. Founder of the initiative Hotel Amazonas; since 2012… Read More
noa* is an award-winning architecture and design studio, founded in 2011 by Lukas Rungger and Stefan Rier with offices in Bolzano (Italy) and Berlin (Germany). noa* stands for the essential expression of a collaborative work ethic: the young team of architects, designers and artists relies on an interdisciplinary design methodology… Read More
Simon Steinburger, co-founder of Hotel Amazonas at Aspmayrhof, tells what is farming from his perspective. Read More
Research Fellow in Visual Arts; art historian, curator and cultural practitioner. Faculty of Design & Art, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy. I believe in the potential of multidisciplinary collaborations and, in my research, I explore the relationship between artistic practices and agriculture, agrarian landscapes and culture. Read More
BAU (founded by Simone Mair, Lisa Mazza and Filipa Ramos in 2015) initiates artistic residencies in South Tyrol that establish forms of collaboration between local communities, the material culture of the territory, and its traditional activities. Email: info@b-a-u.it… Read More
The collective and interdisciplinary project, Spazi in Frutto - Open Orchard recovers ancient varieties of fruit trees from the Belluno alpine territory to create a network of gardens and fruit orchards for public or collective use as cultural spaces, where social, artistic, educational and shared work activities take place, in semi-rural mountain areas. Read More
With Climavore, the collective Cooking Sections investigates possible food production and consumption in anthropogenic landscapes and during man-induced climatic events. Results of this artistic research are also short supply chains. In Palermo, on the occasion of Manifesta 12, under the label of “pranzo al secco” (dry… Read More
Farm Hack is an international network of farmers and inventors for Open Source Ag technology. Founded in USA and inspired to the Open Source Culture, Farm Hack community shares plans, modifications and solutions for farming machinery, both online and at their meet ups. On their… Read More
What are the benefits of sharing in open-source agriculture? What is being shared and what farming communities need to share in the future in Alto Adige - Südtirol? Read More
