BRANCHING IN, BRANCHING OUT
Notes on learning

Branching in, branching out is a new program of Radio Robida that wants to explore collective learning, situated pedagogies and embodied knowledge practices as ways of propagating new realities. The title comes from an interpretation of the etymology of the verb to educate – latin educere, to draw out, take out but also branch out.
Branching in, branching out is a double movement of reaching and encountering what is afar, being inspired and open to different discourses, but at the same time going into what we have an affection to, rooting ourself, being activated and moved by what stays in our proximity, leaning on the landscape and learning from it.

Ep. 1 with Alessandra Pomarico, curator, writer, educator, cultural producer, and activist based in NY and Lecce (IT).

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Alessandra Pomarico is a curator, writer, educator, cultural producer, and activist. Her work intersects arts, pedagogy, social issues, and nano-politics. Co-founder of the artistic and pedagogical experiment Free Home University, Alessandra serves as steering committee member of the global Ecoversities Alliance.
Recent projects include M.E.D.U.S.E (Mediterranean Ecofeminist Decolonial Union for Self-Education), 2021; #Healing at the New Alphabet School, HKW, Berlin/Dakar, 2021; The School of the We, Rotor, Graz, 2020-20221; Time Forward, V-A-C Zattere, Venice, 2020.
Recent publications: When the Roots Start Moving || First Mouvement: To Navigate Backward || Resonating with Zapatismo (2021); Pedagogies Otherwise (2020) and What’s There to Learn (2018).
Alessandra lives and works in New York (US) and Lecce (IT).

The Other Radio program is co-financed by the Javni zavod GO! 2025 - European capital of culture, Nova Gorica.

Ep. 1 Branching in, branching out with Alessandra Pomarico – Vida / 11.02.2023

In 2023 we moved from Mixcloud back here.
To explore the archive from 2022 check our mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/robida_collective/

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How to imagine a radio station which is located in a super-remote place – Topolò/Topolove, with its 22 inhabitants – but will speak to a wide community, scattered in the whole Europe? How could the geographical marginality be interpreted to develop a radio program which is contextual but also speaks to the world?

Radio stations are many times place and community makers. Besides being aethereal – as the voice of the speakers – they many times happen to be physical spaces for people to gather. They are means to cultivate communities. The paradox of starting a radio station in an almost uninhabited village on the mountains opens many fertile questions about Robida’s community and its relation to this specific margin where Robida works and partly lives. How would it be possible to combine a hyper-specificity, which Robida is fond of, with the will of being relevant for those who are far away from us?

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