Community Chorology Cascina Lago Scuro, Italy

The body is the data.

Exploring chorological dynamics in the 8th space at Cascina Lago Scuro — how people collectively imagine and steward a place, and how community, ecology and memory register through the body.

First planned Living Atlas field application — in development, not yet a completed case study.
Manifesto page from The Body is the Data at Cascina Lago Scuro
From the Manifesto — Read the full Exploration Brief →

Three ways in

One field application, documented three ways — the framework, the mapped experience, and the community's own imagined futures.

Exploration Brief

The Body is the Data at Cascina Lago Scuro — the full manifesto, framework, data corpus and experiment design, read page by page.

Read the brief →

Somatic Zone Cartography

The mapped record of how participants move through and experience the Cascina's four somatic zones, plus each person's own fifth place.

View the mapping →

Speculation Library

What would you preserve, repair, and create at Cascina Lago Scuro in ten years? A growing archive of community-authored futures.

Contribute a speculation →

Five layers of community existence

The Community Chorology framework reads a place through five connected concept layers.

Identity + Embodiment — archetypes, somatic and allostatic states of being.
Resonance + Archiving — collective intelligence and community-held knowledge.
Political Ecology Systems — environmental and human systems of power and access.
Community Metabolic Health — a diagnostic of intracommunity ecosystems and outcomes.
Speculative Futuring Autonomy + Agency — freedom for a community to steward its future.