Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).
Jeanne van Heeswijk, “Preparing for the Not-Yet,” in Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice, eds. Ana Paula Pais and Caroline F. Strauss (Amsterdam: Valiz, 2016), 45.
The Protection Law for Slovenians in Italy was passed by the Italian Parliament in 2001.
Florence Krall, Ecotone: Wayfaring on the Margins (New York: State University of New York Press, 1994), 4.
Walter D. Mignolo, Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 85.
Mignolo, Local Histories/Global Designs, xiv.
van Heeswijk, “Preparing for the Not-Yet,” 47.
The art festival Stazione di Topolò/Postaja Topolove, whose artistic directors were the founder Moreno Miorelli and the architect Donatella Ruttar, was established in 1994 and ended in 2022.
A documentary film from 2011 about Stazione di Topolò/Postaja Topolove, by the film director Anja Medved, portrays some young Robida members in their teenage years already dreaming of moving to the village and living there. Anja Medved, “Postajanja_Postaja Topolove /Stazione di Topolò 2011 by Young Topolonauts and Anja Medved,” YouTube, August 26, 2018. See ➝.
The definition “village as house” comes from the master’s thesis of Janja Šušnjar, member of Robida collective, who lived in the village for six months. In her thesis, she interpreted this concept as a renovation methodology of rural villages. See Janja Šušnjar, Projektna študija novih oblik prebivanja v kraju Topolò/Topolove, master’s thesis (Ljubljana: Faculty of Architecture, 2019).
Village as Ecological Entity: Introducing Bees in Topolò was a workshop initiated by Rosario Talevi and guided by the beekeeper Erika Mayr. It aimed to question the role and relation between human and other-than-human inhabitants in the village by welcoming 30,000 new inhabitants, the bees, to the village and landscape.
About this topic see Rosetta S. Elkin, Landscapes of Retreat (Berlin: K. Verlag, 2022).