“Local is Indigenous to Place: origins in Ostana, touring the world, weaving together at MVI Campus”

As part of our local and regional engagement activities with the event series “Here & Now”, we offer a concert in the MVI open theater during the main summer vacation time in Italy, where most second homes in Ostana and the High Po River valley are occupied.

Giornata di apertura del campus MVI e concerto comunitario con il Silvia Bocca Trio

“Il locale è indigeno al luogo: origini di Ostana, in giro per il mondo, intrecciati insieme al Campus MVI”

Performance live del trio jazz composto dalla cantante Silvia Bocca (origini di Ostana), dal chitarrista Alessandro Chiappetta e dal contrabbassista Francesco Bertone, con un repertorio che spazia dal grande songbook americano alla bossanova e al bebop.

We met the artist Silvia Bocca through shared passions, in this case while ski mountaineering in the local mountains – learning about her global work as an artist, and her local origin from Ostana. We then invited her and her fellow musicians to offer a jazz concert for the local community at the MVI campus – to connect the local with the global, both in fact, and as a metaphor for some of the work that needs to be done in a broader sense.

We bring the arts into our living systems lab work as an inclusive way to continuously connect with people – to offer and listen, to build trust with the community, while at the same time infusing new thinking on what being a “local” may mean: local is indigenous to place. Being local relates not only with time spent in a place, but with the relation and engagement someone built with a place, even when born somewhere else, and becoming a place custodian only for some time.

Hosting this concert is part of our “sensing the place” engagement, of “listening to the system”, respecting local culture and language, while intervening from within. What we design, prototype, iterate and learn around the MonViso Institute is made accessible to global learning audiences through the ETH Zurich MOOC series in Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems DRRS. In MOOC#2 and CAS#2 of the executive program, the module “Systemic intervention” benefits vice versa from such local engagements like this concert.

This cost-free event is made financially possible by our new partner Avinastiftung.

23 August 2024 – sign up via monviso-institute.org.