The Social Camp is back: Borgofuturo's horizontal laboratory
From July 8 to 12, the Social Camp reprises its space for collective germination in the Val di Fiastra. This year's theme is “Germinalia — playfully planting possibilities”: a field of collective practice where we learn together, across generations and species, to live differently in a generative way.
Germinate instead of destroying, to reclaim life with creativity.
Relationships generated just as seeds do, with mutual care and attention, infiltrating powers that produce only rubble. Being fertile with ideas, nourishing collectives and alternative support systems through sharing. Germinalia is acknowledging reality and playing at inventing new ones.
What themes will we explore?
We live in a historical moment that demands us to be fast, connected 24/7, efficient, productive, and possibly alone in front of a screen. Meanwhile, around us, there are wars, crises, economic systems on the brink of collapse, and a planet sending us increasingly alarming ecological bulletins. What if, instead of accelerating and centralizing, we slowed down and decentralized? We can choose to go slowly, starting to use our hands and bodies again, and questioning the tools we use.
We'll try to replace the productivity paradigm with one of generativity. Together, we'll explore how to use technology and the body consciously and playfully, burst generational bubbles to connect with those before and after us, and ask how to root joyful, human and non-human relationships.
Who is it for?
For those who want to get their hands dirty in every sense; for those who want to reclaim digital tools; for those seeking a space to play, create, and return to being body among bodies.
Have you ever wondered what the Fool in the tarot hid in his bag? For this occasion, the Madwoman of the cards has come down into the valley to reveal it. We gather around her to inaugurate this new era together.
As part of the European Ruractive project, Borgofresco proposes to foster a reflection on the theme of comfort through the creation of a collective coolness map. Starting with temperature measurements, participants will be invited to identify and report "cool" locations where they can seek refuge from the increasingly frequent summer heatwaves.
The idea is to create a map of "oases of freshness" where you can find cooling spots: shaded areas, vegetated areas, access to water, freshwater currents and so on. These sensory maps will be made available for future editions.
Workshop exploring the body as a site of resilience, pleasure, and collective survival in times of environmental and social instability. Using tools from Feldenkrais, sensory mapping, writing, spoken word, and drawing, participants will investigate internal landscapes alongside the surrounding terrain. Together, we will explore how softness, attention, and connectivity can emerge within difficult or neglected areas of both body and land, opening space for new forms of relation, care, and refuge. In dialogue with Borgofresco’s collective “coolness map,” participants will identify spaces of refuge through shade, water, movement, rest, and nervous system regulation. Rooted in anti-capitalist approaches to care and survival, the workshop offers integrative practices for staying present, connected, and supported within increasingly harsh realities.
The workshop aims to disseminate BDSM terminology: clarifying practices, defining roles and discussing consent and safety as foundations for approaching its practices. Participants will become more familiar with their bodies and desires, integrating them with those with more experience. The goal is to normalize what may seem unusual but is actually a free expression of each person's sexuality, opposing kink shaming.
We will engage in small activities to understand our desires and learn how to transform them into safe, fun, and sexy practices.
The workshop will take the form of an experiential program, with in-depth discussions in small groups to allow each participant to reflect on their fantasies.
Inland areas like the Fiastra Valley are recently emerging as a potential response to the growing challenges of urban living. Various models are being tested through the redevelopment of existing buildings (e.g., one-euro homes, housing cooperatives, community land trusts) or land (e.g., land associations, community-supported agriculture), either through public or private intermediation or as self-organized initiatives. However, no model bridges these two aspects, risking replicating speculative and extractive housing dynamics (e.g., luxury second homes, digital nomads).
This meeting aims to reflect on the work of reviewing case studies done over the past year and to open a space for reflection to propose a model of living more deeply rooted in the local area.
This workshop is a journey through the body, exploring sensation, emotion, and expression through movement. Participants are invited to reconnect with their physical presence, reflect on their roles and gestures, and experience life as a kind of theatre unfolding along an unknown path. Framed as an “escape room without walls,” the workshop unfolds in three stages: a warm-up focused on breathing, movement, trust, and collective reflection; an immersive phase of embodied exploration and action within the space; and a final “behind the scenes” moment of release, openness, and freedom.
We will gather around the stove and, guided by the advice of Antonietta the miller, we will prepare polenta using Ottofile corn—a variety that resisted the arrival of the higher-yielding but less nutritious American hybrid corn, thanks to passionate farmers who still cultivate and harvest it by hand. We will transform this seed into a rich dish of peasant tradition, carefully stirring the ingredients while honoring its slow rhythms and ancient gestures. We will reflect on how we are increasingly stripped of the time and knowledge that generate relationship based on care, and on the value of farming, stone-grinding, and cooking against the grain. Finally, we will share the meal as a tangible act of care, autonomy, and shared resistance.
The energy we consume every day is invisible to us. It comes from an outlet, a cable, a distant generator. This distance is not neutral: it separates us from understanding what it truly means to produce and consume electricity, and from any possibility of collective control over it.
In this workshop, we'll build a generator powered by bicycles and cranks, using recycled materials and low-tech logic. Starting with concrete examples—from French laboratories like the Low-tech Lab to Solar Sound Systems at zero-impact festivals—we'll explore the meaning of energy austerity, self-construction, and convivial infrastructure. The result is a concert—or a light show, or who knows what—that will only work if we continue to produce energy together.
The I Ching, the Book of Changes, is a method of self-exploration through signs, interpreted according to one's experience of the world, to draw guidance on how to shape one's life along with destiny. During this workshop, we will consult it to analyze a specific life situation.
With the help of a guided meditation, an intention will emerge with which to question the oracle. The answers will be allowed to flow playfully and spontaneously in the creation of a collage, allowing thought to become image without the intervention of the rational process. The goal will be to explore the invisible dimension of magic as if it was a prism through which to understand the world.
ciurma is a project born in the province of Pesaro and Urbino. It aims to develop an alternative network of economic, social, relational, and productive relationships, experimenting with self-organizing tools and practices. Social currency is a tool created locally to foster and strengthen mutual exchanges within the community. Using this tool, and others, we will share how our eco-network empowers to transform the relationship between consumers and producers, sharing responsibility for food production, house construction, and caring relationships.
This workshop will explore how the politics of data and the digital are integral to land, environmental, and anti-imperialist struggles. Through the lens of digital infrastructures, we will collectively consider how better to understand and resist infrastructures of oppression, whilst reimagining alternative futures.
In this workshop, we will explore decentralized and P2P technological tools aimed at building sovereign social networks for coordination, voting, and the creation and dissemination of media content, supported by bottom-up economic and financial protocols. The workshop consists of an educational component and a practical component, in which we will use a decentralized tool called "Holons" for coordinating group work.
The workshop will be part of the ongoing artistic residency in the Fiastra Valley, led by the "AsFormers" group. Together with elders from the valley and young people from the "AsFo" group, we will intertwine past, present, and future, connecting them to the gestures, practices, and stories of the valley's agricultural landscape. We will play with printing techniques and reflect on a map of abandoned lands.
Introducing the Farmers magazine! We would like to explore the published issues and discuss their themes together. We'll read some articles together and discuss peasantry in a relaxed and curious way.
Participatory interactive session designed to facilitate 1) understanding of soil cycles, 2) comprenhension of the disruption caused by modern agrarian practices, and 3) discussions around the limits and possibilities of adopting alternative regenerative practices; no particular knowledge of agriculture or soil science is required in order to participate, though contributions of experts and practitioners is very welcome.
A poetic, practical, and experiential workshop based on the profound desire and vital need to understand the river as a living, sentient macro-organism.
Entering the riverbed to engage in the dialogue of the waters, infiltrating and flowing deep within, thus inhabiting and nourishing the banks, reclaiming an eternal and fluid geography which we also belong to, a geography we have forgotten in the name of objectification and exploitation.
How does one become a river person?
An itinerant creative process where we practice the art of being beavers, where through play we can reconnect with our liquid identity, with our erosive flow toward the sea, allowing ourselves to be passed through, then evaporate, and return to our source.
The river brings and takes away... what remains?
The idea for the youth council was born from a question I was asked a few years ago: "Where does the future come from?" My spontaneous answer was: from us youth.
From there, the youth council was born as a tool and method for gaining a voice in decision-making in institutional settings, currently reserved only to adults.
The youth council aims to offer adults an open, inclusive, and welcoming vision of the future, that keeps everyone active and involved in the decisions that affect us. It's a toolkit to share, to bring the council to your community and build a collective, intergenerational future.
These moments have been intentionally left blank in the program to be filled by any initiatives, spontaneous or planned, proposed by camp participants based on their interests or needs. There are no pre-established requirements, and they can be proposed during the daily meetings.
What happens when our species looks at others in a multispecies perspective?
Within the energetic and joyful artivism of Climate Pride, the Political Biology lab is born.
Through theatrical identification and other embodiment practices, we will reconnect with Nature, moving from individualism to a symbiosis with the multispecies and ecosystems in which we are immersed, questioning the intertwining of biology and politics.
Thanks to "organism cards," participants will be called upon to deliberate in a "multispecies parliament" on issues otherwise dominated by the tyranny of the all-too-human human. In the face of the multispecies, we will be able to deconstruct the very tower built on the bricks of human arrogance.
"Shall we play the Grape Game? Each to their own home!" This is how we in the Marche region tell each other it's time to go. Saying goodbye is a ritual, and we do it by bringing with us our magical plant, now grown and strong.
To which house or place will you take the seed of your madness?
The Social Camp 2026 has a registration fee : 100 a 130 euro.
What does the fee cover?
The registration fee makes the Social Camp possible!
It covers about half of its costs: food, camping, logistics costs, gasoline for people providing transportation, communication materials, travel expenses for workshop facilitators and organizers, and the materials needed to run them.
The other half of the Camp’s funding comes from our Yoppeleyeppefundraising events in the Marche region, Brussels, and Barcelona.
Why include a sliding scale? We operate on the principle of a solidarity sliding scale to make the camp more accessible to more people, while ensuring our costs are covered.
Please get in touch if you’d like to attend but the fee is an obstacle and we can work to find a solution. And if you feel you’d like to contribute more, that is also possible.
For any doubts or communications, write to us at borgofuturo.socialcamp@gmail.com.
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