This document describes the GALA treehouse lab, which aims to design and realize a strategy for rural regeneration through cultural and social development that improves life in the local community. The core of the lab will be a treehouse-like structure built from recycled materials on the Pollinaria farm, serving as a meeting place. Activities like gatherings, talks, and site interventions will revolve around themes of art, agriculture, and environmental protection. The goal is to provoke imagination about relationships between people and the land, promote sustainable farming practices, and regenerate a sense of community through knowledge sharing and a creative approach to the rural environment.

3. history

10. agriculture

19. art

20. etoy | MISSION ETERNITY (2009)
HeHe | Man Made Clouds (2009-ongoing)
Futurefarmers | This is Not a Trojan Horse (2010)
Agnes Meyer-Brandis | Moon Goose Colony (2011-
ongoing)
Fritz Haeg | Domestic Integrities (2012-13)
Domestic Integrities (2012-13)
Domestic Integrities (2012-13)
Domestic Integrities (2012-13)
Domestic Integrities (2012-13)
Domestic Integrities (2012-13)
Domestic Integrities (2012-13)
Domestic Integrities (2012-13)
Domestic Integrities (2012-13)

21. Futurefarmers | This is Not a Trojan Horse
(2010)

43. rural regeneration

45. A scape in the land.
Within the identity of Pollinaria, the GALA treehouse lab
will integrate a new field of action, a peculiar form of
ecology, to the current merging fields of art and agriculture.
Our goal is to design and realize a strategy for rural
regeneration through social and cultural life development
and improvement, deeply interplaying with the local
community.
The Lab aims to actively reestablish a strong,
environmentally conscious connection between
local people and the land.

47. A scape in the land.
The physical core and epicentre of the Lab will be an archetypical
habitat created around centuries old oak trees, living inside
the Pollinaria farm.
Inspired by local spontaneous rural constructions and built using
found and recycled materials from the farm, this tree house-like
space will serve mainly as a meeting place and community
centre.
A variety of activities will take place in its context, particularly
focused on forming and sharing a knowledge about the role of
contemporary art and culture in the sustainable
development of rural areas through the valorisation of
small scale farm production, environmentally conscious
use of the land and farming techniques, and other means
involving the participation of local community. The proposed space
is also intended to function as the base of a local radio, which will
broadcast mainly news and informative programs related to the

49. A scape in the land.
The Lab comprises a variety of activities: gatherings, talks,
lectures, excursions and site specific interventions
revolving around themes creatively dealing with agriculture
and the protection and enhancement of the rural
environment.
Authors, curators and coordinators among GALA project
partners will be invited to participate to the Lab, dedicating
lectures and other specific projects to the themes developed over
the course of the Lab. Anthropologists, sociologists,
environmental lawyers and other actors with a common
interest in creativity as a crucial factor towards a sustainable
evolution will also be involved.

51. A scape in the land.
Within the framework of the project, the tree house habitat will be
developed as a prototype of an ideal meeting / learning /
sharing place - the cradle of a new born and expanding alliance
and movement - and its functions will be replicated under
different forms also in other locations, such as village
squares and streets, bars, homes, farms, cultivated fields and
wilderness.
In all these places, community will meet for different purposes, to
shape thought and awareness, exchange knowledge,
define common actions. The initial connection between the
circle of farms around Pollinaria is intended to progressively
expand
outside the boundaries of it and form a network with similar
experiences around the world.

53. A scape in the land.
In an area threatened by a lack of prospects and values inspiring
rural life and work, the Lab intends to provoke imagination and
ways to explore and rethink the relationship between
people and the land and, more extensively, between people
and nature.
By a deep involvement of the inhabitants, it aims to regenerate a
sense of human consortium within local community and to
promote the valorisation of slow, intimate, sustainable
scale of land management and farm production through a
variety of activities directed to experience, share, transfer and
articulate related knowledge.
At the core of the Lab is the ignition of a synergetic behaviour
through which inhabitants can together develop a creative and
mindful approach to their relationship with the rural environment
and pursue a life model inspired by it.

54. Flatbread Society. An inspiration.
Flatbread Society is a growing constellation of farmers, oven builders,
astronomers, artists, soil scientists and bakers aligned through a common
interest in the long and complex relation we have to grain.
Flatbread Society is a growing constellation of farmers, oven builders,
astronomers, artists, soil scientists and bakers aligned through a common
interest in the long and complex relation we have to grain.

55. Flatbread Society. An inspiration.
Bakehouse Bjørvika is a public baking facility housed within an experimental
architectural structure in Bjørvika. A multi-functional oven will facilitate various
types of bread baking, smoking and cooking. The heat from the ovens will
heat seating.
Bakehouse Bjørvika is a public baking facility housed within an experimental
architectural structure in Bjørvika. A multi-functional oven will facilitate various
types of bread baking, smoking and cooking. The heat from the ovens will
heat seating.

56. Flatbread Society. An inspiration.
A demonstration grain field cultivating heritage grains. Planted in the
"commons" the grains demonstrate the pressing issues of food security,
biodiversity and intellectual property. The field will invite us to consider the
history and currents of grain-based societies.
A demonstration grain field cultivating heritage grains. Planted in the
"commons" the grains demonstrate the pressing issues of food security,
biodiversity and intellectual property. The field will invite us to consider the
history and currents of grain-based societies.