Vida Rucli from Robida Collective

Proposing a conceptual connection between practices of dwelling and curating, the presentation introduces Robida Collective’s work in the hyper-small borderland village of Topolò/Topolove (IT) as a case story. The collective works from and in relation to Topolò, letting the place leak into the curatorial and editorial projects of the collective, inspiring the pedagogical programmes, magazines and architectural interventions. Vida Rucli, member of Robida, will present the genealogy of the collective, how it is organised, its relation to the village and will introduce some of Robida's projects. 

Robida is an interdisciplinary collective, active since 2014, based in the mountain village of Topolò/Topolove on the border between Italy and Slovenia. At the intersection of architecture, art, theory, radio practices, writing and community engagement, they explore the relationships between space and its imaginaries, while questioning modes of living in post-rural, minoritarian and multilingual contexts. 
 
Vida Rucli is an architect and cultural worker based in the village of Topolò/Topolove (IT). In 2014 she co-founded the collective publishing project Robida that later became a spatial practice, a gesture of commitment to the place, a radio signal, a school. She is editor of Robida Magazine (2014-present) and co-curator for Robida’s public programmes and projects (2017-present). She is a member of the international research group Ecologies of Care and of Floating University, Berlin. She has presented her collective practice and personal research in different universities (Goldsmiths, 2024; HBK, Braunschweig, 2024; KABK, 2023; Yale, 2022), institutions (Jan van Eyck Academy, 2025; De Appel, 2024) and publications.