nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

mara ferreri has worked and studied between visual arts and urbangeography, and is currently concerned with anti-gentrification struggles,urban transience, and work and life precarity. She is finishing a Phd thesison the Cultural politics of vacant space reuse at the Geography Department ofQueen Mary University, London.nelly alfandari is currently working as a Drama teacher in SecondarySchools in East London. She has a background as participatory theatrepractitioner, which she practised in schools, community centres and invarious art settings. Theatre of the Oppressed has been the key of her work forthe past years, as a tool to create collaborative platforms within public spaces,education and community settings.paolo plotegher is interested in exploring how different ways of livingtogether can be constructed through art. In Bolzano, Italy, he set off SummerDrafts, inviting artists, activists and thinkers to organize workshops anddiscussions together with migrants and locals in South Tyrol. He has beentesting the possibility of practicing radical pedagogy in institutions likeGoldsmiths – Visual Cultures and City and Guilds Art School. He sometimespublishes texts in independent journals and publications, exploring thepolitical and affective potential of writing. He is finishing a PhD interrogatingthe possibility of acting politically though the use of everyday artistic forms.Together with some comrades he has recently initiated the New CrossCommoners, an experiment to explore, discuss and produce commons andcommoning in the neighbourhood where he lives.281