By combining design research methods with radical pedagogy, conflict mediation, and do-it-yourself approaches, the Italian artist collective produces, among other things, pedagogical rooms, publications, websites, photographs, videos, hiking tours, and urban interventions. It intensively deals with the social, political, economic, and ecological conditions. Ideally, this results in an answer in the form of designed objects or situations that actively propose an alternative way of thinking and acting. “COMUNfARE” in the Vallagarina district in the Italian Alps is a long-term, practice-based and theoretically reflective project by Brave New Alps that aims to develop a globally adaptable model for the collective use of the commons – hence a contribution to social and economic change.

*1985, Iran/USA, is an artist, activist, and curator. Her work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions of the present day and uses technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document the personal and collective lives struggles of our time. She is co-author of the “3D Additivist Cookbook” featuring speculative projects of over one hundred artists, activists, and theorists. Her 3D-printed sculptural reconstructions of artefacts destroyed by ISIS, “Material Speculation: ISIS,” have been shown and discussed worldwide. In 2016-2017, she was Research Resident of the Eyebeam Residency in New York, working on “Digital Colonialism and ‘re-Figuring’” as a feminist and decolonialist practice.

*1962, Germany, develops interdisciplinary projects in the tradition of conceptual art, which challenge fundamental experiences of space, time, and corporeality. He makes theories and insights from the natural sciences and humanities tangible in aesthetic-artistic ways, works with mathematical models and universal algorithms, and combines art with observations on markets and materialism. His wall work “Le pigment de la lumière” for the interiors of the new Gropius and Moholy-Nagy Masters’ Houses in Dessau, which re-opened in 2014, refers to light studies by the Bauhaus teacher Moholy-Nagy. Nicolai is Professor for Sculpture and Fundamentals of Three-Dimensional Design at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been shown internationally in numerous solo shows and garnered numerous awards.