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„Indeed, if commoning has any meaning, it must be the production of ourselves as a common subject.

This is how we must understand the slogan “no commons without community.” But ‘community’ has to be intended not as a gated reality, a grouping of people joined by exclusive interests separating them from others, as with communities formed on the basis of religion or ethnicity, but rather as a quality of relations, a principle of cooperation and of responsibility to each other and to the earth, the forests, the seas, the animals.“
Silvia Federici

Clanz acts as a facilitator of commoning — a process oriented toward what in Italy is formalized as comunella, in German as Allmende, and more broadly understood in English as the commons.
By creating spaces for exchange, contribution, and shared access, Clanz prepares the conditions for forms of cultural and material co-production shaped through collective use and participation. In doing so, it fosters value beyond ownership and nurtures a local ecology of cultural production grounded in reciprocity, participation, and collective agency.

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Ressources

The space of Clanz is both physical and social: rooted in the premises of the former trattoria De Maria e De Doro, and shaped through decades of practices of hosting and exchange. This evolving infrastructure — ranging from everyday tools and studio equipment to situated local knowledge and specialized expertise — forms the basis for encounters with incoming participants.
Through processes of negotiation and reciprocity, contributions take different forms: artistic restitutions by residents, financial participation sustaining and expanding the infrastructure, or forms of intellectual and cultural enrichment that strengthen the community of commoners, the growing network of cultural practitioners in the town, the wider region, and beyond.

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Land

In closer relation to the historical notion of the commons, Clanz strategically (ab)uses the paradigm of property in order to loosen fragments of territory from the logics of trade and monetization.
Clanz initiates and supports projects that acquire rights to land and develops concepts for its collective, non-extractive, and inclusive use. In doing so, it seeks to open spaces in which territory can be understood not as property, but as a shared condition for cultural, social, and ecological practices.