Graphic designer Pierre Tandille offers, with this book, a story about the last N.A ! Fund academy in Basel.

Yesenia Thibault-Picazo after Basel N.A ! Fund Academy :

“We got offered these five days, as a precious time in our independent paths, to think, meet a whole bunch of new people, discover a new city and eventually fall in love…I easily fall in love, with people, with places, with beautiful minds, and these few days were plenty of them.

What Katarzyna Przezwańska says, after Basel Academy :

“The link between my work (playground : picture above) and something I’ve found in Basel would be one of the flowerbeds we’ve seen in one street (picture below). What I liked about it is that it was natural, raw, wild form in the city instead of being overdesigned, sleek and trimmed.

Valentina Karga offer us her thoughts after Basel Academy.

“Basel has an inspiring alternative side: a quite big and well-working urban agriculture network, an alternative currency (the Netzbon), while 23% voted YES for the basic income. The whole experience reminded me of my utopian dreams of a world where work and money are disassociated, money has no storage value (like the netzbon) and it is just a means-to-an-end and people do work which they find meaningful.

Chus Martinez is Head of the Institute of Art of the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel, partner of N.A ! Fund. Chus Martinez is also a writer. Here is one of her texts.

Ugo Bardi will give a workshop in next Basel Academy.

Ugo Bardi teaches physical chemistry at the University of Florence in Italy. He is interested in resource depletion, system dynamics modeling, climate science and renewable energy.

In his 1977 lectures How to live together, Roland Barthes addressed the philosophical problem of the coexistence of individuals through the lens of the everyday: food, things, places… Achieving the utopia of a collective, “idiorrhythmic” subject, requires to overcome arbitrary division as much as to open spaces of shared interests. How can relationships of commons be translated into cultural methods to build a convivial society? Can the sense of emplacement give new meaning to our engagement with the global issues of the world? In times of acceleration and separation, intuitive practices of the local and slow life constitute a precious knowledge.

“What would you work, if your income was taken care of?” – the biggest question on earth according to the Basic Income project team at Unternehmen Mitte.

The NA Fund Academy 2016 in Basel will visit ProSpeciaRara, a seed saving network.

NA Fund meets with Bastiaan Fricht, coordinator of the Basel Urban Agriculture Network, to prepare its 2016 Artist Academy in the Swiss city, from june 20 to 24. “More than a alternative production activity, urban agriculture is about re-learning how to live together.”