Co-creating a festival with and for rural commoning initiatives: a transdisciplinary place-based process

Cristina Dalla Torre, Angela Moriggi, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Sara Favargiotti, Maddalena Ferretti · 2025 · Ecology and Society

Summary. This paper describes a transdisciplinary collaboration that co-created a rural festival to showcase commoning initiatives and strengthen community care during COVID-19. Artists, designers, farmers, educators, and other stakeholders worked together using place-based methods. The festival engaged the public in collective care for social-ecological systems and challenged dominant narratives about rural life. The research shows how arts-based approaches and festivals can serve as boundary objects that facilitate dialogue across disciplines and create actionable knowledge reflecting local needs.

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  title   = {Co-creating a festival with and for rural commoning initiatives: a transdisciplinary place-based process},
  author  = {Cristina Dalla Torre and Angela Moriggi and Bianca Elzenbaumer and Sara Favargiotti and Maddalena Ferretti},
  journal = {Ecology and Society},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.5751/es-16095-300308},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.5751/es-16095-300308}
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10.5751/es-16095-300308

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innovation-networks, climate-and-environment

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2026-04-28