This paper focuses on the context of the Autonomous Province of Trento in Northern Italy, which has hosted common regime institutions that manage collective mountain properties daily since the 13th century. These institutions operate in the most significant part of the territory and adapt their routines to emerging challenges. From different scientific perspectives (economic, anthropological, and architectural), we analyzed how this method has been actualized as the most effective management of local resources, generating opportunities for commoners, new citizens, and external users. This includes the exposure of the communities to novel economic activities, adaptation of the internal normative and planning systems, and reflection on how to combine natural resources with local needs and global scenarios.

This paper explores the multispecies relations that characterise a specific temporal conjuncture of the Fiemme Valley: the aftermath of Vaia, a storm that crossed Italy in 2018 and whose repercussions continue to affect this Alpine territory. The Vaia disaster resulted from the cultural remodelling of two landscapes: the forest one, implemented on a local scale through silvicultural practices; the atmospheric one, implemented on a global scale with the emission of greenhouse gases. I aim to demonstrate that the emergence of a new landscape through encounters between multiple forms of life and agencies is irreducible to the anthropocentric perspective.

Conosciuta per le sue foreste, la Val di Fiemme è caratterizzata anche da un'agricoltura marginale, domestica e policolturale. L'articolo vuole considerare in particolare il recupero e la coltivazione dell'orzo, cereale utile a triangolare il particolare rapporto tra sementi autoctone antiche, conservazione della biodiversità e immaginari sociali nel territorio fiemmese. Dalla sua origine presso gli orti di Capriana, alla sua valorizzazione da parte della cooperativa agricola Terre Altre, fino al suo impiego come ingrediente nel Birrificio di Fiemme: ciascuno di questi passaggi segna un diverso appaesamento simbolico del cereale all'interno della memoria comunitaria.