"To imagine is already to act: reclaiming imagination as a force for political transformation means already beginning to change. What is happening cannot be described using the languages of economics, psychology, or neoliberal marketing. The possibility of proposing the hypothesis of revolution depends on our collective ability to invent a new grammar, a new language capable of giving voice to social change, to the transformation of sensitivity and consciousness that is underway. We need, as Spinoza and Deleuze would put it, other precepts, other affects, and another desire. Another way of perceiving, feeling, and naming. Another way of knowing. Another way of loving. It is not enough to analyse the neoliberal condition; we must change the names of everything."
Paul Preciado, 2022 Dysphoria mundi
Architect with experience in academic research, she is passionate about technology, trekking and nordic sagas reading. Her expertise and interest span from spatial data analysis, microclimate mitigation, and architectural technology.
Anthropologist, ecologist, eutopist. After several years of research abroad, mainly on urban studies, memory politics and social ecology, she now works in the publishing sector as editor and book scouter. She still climbes trees.
From Veneto to Turin. Before arriving in Turin she explored Europe between Germany and Spain. She played softball on the diamonds of Italy for more than twenty years. Since she discovered sport as a tool of social inclusion, it became her daily motivation. She firmly believes that sport can be a magical tool for individual and collective exploration.
Grew up in Turin, has lived in France, Belgium and Milan. She holds a PhD in urban sociology. She currently collaborates with CNR in the ViVA project dealing with empowerment policies in countering gender-based violence. Her interests lie in the field of gender studies, queer,and in the transfeminist research and facilitation methodologies.
and about the politics and policies of cities by bringing into dialogue people from the built environment disciplines (architects, urban planners, as well as academics and civil society groups) with actors of the diverse spheres of visual arts.
TSoLT explores processes of commoning in the interstice and coalition zone between architecture, arts and politics.
Through the diverse projects TSoLT aims at focusing on PLAY as a strategy for using TIME within dynamics outside the market logics, and thus, as a way to start deconstructing our mindset of always having to be productive when using our TIME.
Urban researcher, project manager and designer but above all homo persona ludens. She uses playing as a practice of social transformation and as an accessible tool for collective reflection. She loves to explore - urban and alpine places; and the meanings and signifiers of things. And she seeks and experiments, better if together, with the syntaxes, languages and narratives that represent them.
A technologist practicing at the intersection of computing and culture, he writes about information and technology in the public interest at «Beyond the Frame». He previously worked as an interdisplinary artist in Chicago and New York City for over a decade while teaching at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has since moved to Europe to work on problems in open science, digital identity, and software preservation.
Urban researcher and full time dreamer and activist (queer transfeminist and commoner). Mixing together urban sociology and architecture, this person works as intercultural mediator co-creating collective projects that engage in social change through arts and research.
Lucilla Barchetta is a tireless walker, writer, and eco-masciara ("masciara" means witch in the Pugliese dialect), trained as a transdisciplinary anthropologist and researcher, with interests intersecting the topics of health, the environment, urban spaces, and inequalities. More recently, they have focused on processes of interdisciplinary and data-driven scientific collaboration. Lucilla has coordinated international and multidisciplinary teams and collaborated with numerous universities and institutions, both in Italy and abroad.
“we might call [play] a free activity standing quite consciously outside “ordinary” life […] connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained by it […] It promotes the formation of social groupings […]”[1]. In this way, TSoLT is a project that aims to collaboratively construct ourselves as homines ludentes, and our quotidian life as one extraordinary (thinking of ordinary as a social environment commodified all the way down[2]). For doing so, TSoLT uses diverse projects that enables participants to turn us all into accomplices in the process of imagining, creating, and living different ways to lose TIME, to do politcs and to develop critical thinking, starting to construct in this way “The Beginning of History” (De Angelis: 2007), and thus activating a society of commoners for future projects.
Product designer with a strong passion for typography and all aspects of user behavior. From the overall process to the interaction with the smallest buttons, she leverages technology—or eliminates it—to help people focus on what’s important to them. She thrives on crafting user-centered, inventive solutions and fostering collaborative relationships. Her creativity is fueled by a good cup of coffee, and she delights in sharing a good meal.
Service and product designer. Big-picture thinker and behaviour observer. Foodie and knitting enthusiast. She is passionate about design and it’s power to foster co-creation and enable interactions, connecting the dots between people and things.
Many years in Sardinia, she studied political science first in Bologna and then in Turin. Work in social work, especially with migrant people, both in NGOs and Social Coop. led her on unexpected turns to reappear in Turin where she is still involved in social work, this time for a Local Authority. Head in Piedmont and dreams in Sardinia, she looks for answers in feminism with an island outlook, and tries to apply it to the social issues she deals with.
Born and raised in the lower Po Valley, she decides to follow the Po river to Turin. Here she starts her professional career in the field of urban regeneration, care of territories and their communities through the tools that best suit her: communication, storytelling, audience and community engagement. When she can, she enjoys mixing her beginner’s passions for good food, publishing and contemporary art.
As founder of this cultural association we are a two “mulier ludens” team, Angela María Osorio Méndez born and raised in Bogotá, and Chiara Basile, Italian of Turin. We are educated as architects and hold PhDs in Urban Studies and Urban and Regional development.
We both believe in commoning as the beginning of thinking of life outside the commodities web in which apparently we are trapped today as a society. We both believe in PLAYing as an important strategy for de-naturalizing structures (such as naturalised capitalist dynamics) that blind us from thinking other possible ways of living together. Online and offline open sources tools and creative commons resources are our basic interactive tool-kit; writers such as Seneca, Cortazar and Calvino and scholars as Constant, De Angelis, Huizinga, Fraser, Polanyi, have largely influenced our way of thinking.
