Panta Rei

About.

The Panta Rei project’s first impulse came from the will to recover the potential lying dormant in a plot of degraded and abandoned farmland. In November of 1992, a cooperative was founded, to begin creating a network of partnerships and gathering resources. At the center of the design was the desire to create a site for educational and pedagogical activities, a place where it would be possible to “Learn by Doing”. The buildings were constructed with recovered materials and appropriate technologies: earth, straw, and wood. Since 2008, the cooperative has become an association, A.P.S. “Panta Rei” with the aim of disseminating good practices in the management of the “commons”, by creating projects and activities focussing on a “pedagogy of practice”. As a site of permanent experimentation, it is a living laboratory for educators, associations, and individuals interested in learning and applying sustainability and regeneration, with a hands-on approach.