Fading Grounds

About

Fading Grounds / Grounding Commoning
Fading is not simply what disappears: it is a condition of transition, a moment in which forms, roles, boundaries, and meanings lose definition. In this sense, rather than mourning disappearance, Fading Ground frames it as the common ground from which new forms of coexistence and communing can emerge.
Fading acts as a device—spatial, material, and relational; uncertainty becomes a condition to be investigated rather than resolved. Fading is not intended in a nostalgic sense—as something that is being lost—but as a generative condition.
The workshop invites participants to act collectively in public space and to sense the spaces where certainty dissolves and relations emerge, grounding commoning through situated practices and shared actions.
Through temporary spatial interventions, participants will engage with different contexts, materials, and public programmes to inhabit what is fragile and ephemeral.
Attention will be given to practices of attunement and care: individual explorations and collective experiments intertwine, supported by moments of dialogue and reflection. The three-week workshop opens a common ground where design becomes a relational act and space a continuous negotiation.

Course leader

Biennale Urbana

Target group

Requirements:
Willingness to work collectively and in small groups.
What to bring:
Analogue and digital tools you are used to work with. Please bring basic camping gear for the possibility of an immersive outdoor experience: tent, sleeping bag, sleeping mat, weather-appropriate clothing, rubber boots and sturdy shoes, headlamp or flashlight, work gloves, backpack, personal toiletries, and a water bottle.

Fee info