Robida is a collective based in Topolò/Topolove, a village situated on the border between Italy and Slovenia. This region falls under Benečija, a place known for its Slovenian minority. The collective is international and multilingual and is known for its work that intersects written and spoken words. They have a range of projects, including Robida Magazine and Radio Robida, and also offer residencies and summer schools. The collective's curatorial approach emphasizes long-term projects that explore the connection between landscape and the place of Topolò/Topolove. Robida has its headquarters in a place named Izba, located at the center of the village.
Robida Collective
The Robida collective began their activities around 2015 in Topolò, a small village situated in a marginalized area of the Slovenian minority in Italy. As a curatorial collective, they always work with the concepts surrounding them and actively involve in the proccess of rethinking the dominant narratives and prevailent discourses of for example the margin of a margin or the otherness, the proximity of borders, and multilingualism. Their work encompasses a diverse range of artistic forms and is characterized by its poetic nature. While their backgrounds span architecture, design, humanities, arts, music and literature, they combine their collective knowledge to create a cohesive entity. The core collective of approximately ten individuals continues to expand into an international community of the Robida Collective, serving as a vital network of interconnected artists working in various fields.
According to their own words,
Robida is commitment, dedication, concreteness, care and responsibility.
Robida is a way of learning from scratch to take care of one’s dreams.
Robida is a group of people with a great sense of community.
Robida is a platform for creating a place of belonging.
Robida is a space where to dig deeper into things.
Robida is a place for observation and reflection.
Robida is a project to connect people.
Robida is a place to experiment.
Robida is a laboratory.
Robida is relationships.
Robida is a cure.
Topolò/Topolove
Robida magazine
Radio Robida
Residencies and Summer Schools
Izba
Izba is a collective space run by the Robida collective, which serves as a co-working place, coffee shop, radio station, and event venue. The space comprises a reading room and a spacious kitchen, where food for numerous people can be prepared. It is situated in the heart of the village, beneath the church. The name "izba" is derived from the traditional term for a heated room in a house, which served as a gathering place for socializing and conviviality.
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Gallery
A Tangible Encounter - Workshop and installation on Koderjana stream by the Dutch architecture office Studio Wild in collaboration with the student of the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana (Topolò/Topolove, spring 2019).
Workshop Hearing the Margins during which the collective opened its own radio, Radio Robida (Topolò/Topolove, summer 2021).
Summer school of the Academy of Margins, a collective learning experience in the village of Topolò (summer 2022). The summer school opened with an explorative walk of the landscape surrounding the village.
Summer school of the Academy of Margins, a collective learning experience in the village of Topolò (summer 2022). Collective reading moment in the forest.
Robida magazine n. 7 (summer 2021), dedicated to the topic of the forest.
Project Izgubljene poti in besede (Forgotten Paths and Words) by Janja Šušnjar (Topolò/
Topolove, summer 2019).
Photo of the mountains that surround the village of Topolò/Topolove (IT) where Robida has
its heartquarter.
Some of the inhabitants of Topolò/Topolove, meeting on the paths of the village.
A moment from the symposium Care of Margins in Topolò/Topolove that took place in September 2021 and was organized by Robida collective.
Summer school of the Academy of Margins, a collective learning experience in the village of Topolò (summer 2022). The reader of the summer school.
Summer school of the Academy of Margins, a collective learning experience in the village of Topolò (summer 2022). Small gestures of useless care, guided by Robida’s member Vida Rucli and the Polish designer Ola Korbańska.
Summer school of the Academy of Margins, a collective learning experience in the village of Topolò (summer 2022). Smell and taste exploration of abandoned orchards, fields and forest, guided by the Austrian designer Philipp Kolmann.
The village of Topolò/Topolove (IT), municipality of Grimacco (Udine): the village counts
today 25 inhabitants, 6 of them are active members of
Robida collective.
Summer school of the Academy of Margins, a collective learning experience in the village of Topolò (summer 2022). Lecture of the artist Marjetica Potrč about nature’s rights.
Summer school of the Academy of Margins, a collective learning experience in the village of Topolò (summer 2022). Field-Not-Recording workshop by the sound artist Attila Faravelli.
Common dinner of Robida collective.
Robida magazine n. 7 (summer 2021), dedicated to the topic of the forest.
Symposium Care of Margins (Topolò/Topolove, September 2021) organised by Robida. A collective moment to re-think the format of artist residencies with art practitioners, professors, curators and designers from all Europe.
Presentation of Robida magazine n. 7 in Topolò’s forest (summer 2021).
Project Izgubljene poti in besede (Forgotten Paths and Words) by Janja Šušnjar (Topolò/
Photo of the mountains that surround the village of Topolò/Topolove (IT) where Robida has
The village of Topolò/Topolove (IT), municipality of Grimacco (Udine): the village counts
