LFP Nomadic School 2025

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Nomadic School takes place every summer in Trentino/Alto Adige - Südtirol in the Italian Alps, more than 2000 meters above sea level. For 15 days it brings together a diverse community of mentors and participants who are engaged in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, choreography, glaciology, geology, stage design, sound curation, dramaturgy, visual and literary arts, and anthropology. This group of people is invited to inhabit a context that offers an opportunity to examine art practices through the lens of the alpine landscape while observing its pedagogical effect; without dogmatic structures, the Nomadic School thinks about scenic space, landscape, and the climate crisis as aesthetic territories that have political implications without the use of a political language.

Combining individuality and collective moments, the Nomadic School creates open spaces of experimentation in which heterogeneous experiences and knowledge interact horizontally and non-hierarchically in relation to the landscape in the form of workshops, laboratories, dialogic moments, rest and celebration- creating a unique and shared time of research, life and study.

> Lina Lapelytè (artist and musician)
born 1984 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Lives and works in London, UK and Vilnius, Lithuania. Lapelytė’s practice is rooted in music, flirts with pop culture, gender stereotypes and nostalgia. Her works engage trained and untrained performers, often in an act of singing that takes the form of a collective and affective event that questions vulnerability and silencing. In 2019, her work Sun & Sea (Marina), made together with Vaiva Grainytè and Rugilè Barzdžiukaitè, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti, won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale. In 2020 she received the national art and culture prize in Lithuania. Lapelytè holds a BA in classical violin (2006) and Sound Arts (2009), MA in Sculpture, London (2013).

> Giulia Crispiani (writer and visual artist)
is an editor, translator, writer, and visual artist based in Rome. She collaborates with Nero Editions, bruno, Dutch Art Institute, and teaches at NABA Rome. Her work has been presented in numerous institutions and non-profit spaces, including: Istituto Svizzero, Rome; Bulegoa, Bilbao; MAXXI Rome and MAXXI L’Aquila; Roma Europa Festival; Center for Book Arts, New York; Almanac Inn, Turin; Centrale Fies, Dro; Short Theatre, Rome; MACRO, Rome; Quadriennale di Roma 2020; Il Colorificio, Milan; and FramerFramed, Amsterdam. She is the author of Incontri in luoghi straordinari / Meetings at remarkable places (Nero Editions, 2020), What if Every Farewell Would Be Followed by a Love Letter (Union Editions, 2020), What if I can’t say goodbye (Union Editions, 2021), Petra (Rerun books, 2018), and co-author of غم/Tristezza/Sorrow (with Golrokh Nafisi, Oreri 2021) and Albe e Tramonti di Praiano (with Michele Bertolino, Oreri 2022).

> Giacomo Lorandi (chef, fermenter, and gastronomic researcher)
holds a degree in economics and a master's degree in innovation of food practices. His professional and life research revolves around food, which he studies not only as a final, finished product but as an ecosystem of places, knowledge, and people. He loves using fermentation both to create new and diverse flavors and, above all, as an example of intra-species cooperation. His cuisine reflects his ethics: respect for raw materials and those who produce them, seasonality, and waste reduction.

> Maria Isidora Vincentelli (dancer and performance maker, ex Nomadic)

growing up partly in rural northern England and partly in rural Greece, she made her artistic base in Athens after completing her dance training in London. She collaborates in interdisciplinary projects between Europe and the UK, often working with musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists on the creation of performance works that cultivate the body’s intuitive intelligence to create states in which to dream new ways of being in the world. Themes of current projects she is involved in include ritual theatre, erotic ecology, experimental polyphony, and lamentation. In 2023, she won the North East Emerging Artist Prize for her audiovisual installation Timekeeping.

> Kris Krois (designer and facilitator for social-ecological transformation)
teaches/researches in the transdisciplinary and practice-based Master in Eco-Social Design at the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano. Together with students and teachers/researchers as well as with partners from neighbourhoods, agricultures, sciences and activism, he is co-creating design practices, tools and structures that contribute to social-ecological transformations towards more solidary and sustainable modes of living and production. Since 2013 he is organising the annual conference By Design or by Disaster. He is part of KAUZ-Laboratory for Climate Justice, Work and Future, and co-founder of the New European Bauhaus of the Mountains and Climate Action South Tyrol.

> Erica Cova (meterologist)
holds a degree in Physics and, since 2011, has been working at the Department of Civil Protection, Forests, and Wildlife of the Autonomous Province of Trento. She primarily focuses on weather forecasting and in recent years, she has also been involved in snow science. Additionally, she manages relations with the Euregio and the collaborative project for unified weather forecasts, meteo.report.

> Beatrice Citterio (eco-social designer and researcher, ex Nomadic)
specializing in design for landscape and cultural heritage. She explores territorial modification and land management through diverse media, including geo-referenced mapping, fieldwork, photography, and archival research. Currently, she is examining territorial transformations in the lead-up to the 2026 Winter Olympic Games through a multidisciplinary lens, with a focus on diachronic comparisons and the use of language. Her first major outcome is Precious Games: Observatory on the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, a self-produced, tabloid-style fanzine that investigates the local and trans-regional dynamics of the Games.