© Alessandra Pomarico
Alessandra Pomarico (PhD) is an independent curator, writer, and educator at the intersection of arts, pedagogy, and community building. Recent context-based, long term initiatives includes the ongoing Free Home University (since 2014), an artistic and pedagogical experiment on sharing the learning by experiencing life in common; The Common Orchard for Minor Fruits (since 2014), a generative rural and social project in collaboration with organic farmers and activists; Ammirato Culture House (2012-2017) a hub for social practices and a community center in a formerly dismissed municipality building; Sound Res (2004-2012), residency program, festival and summer school for experimental and new music.
Free Home University is a pedagogical and artistic experiment created in 2013 in Southern Italy by a local and international group of artists and thinkers. It focuses on generating new ways of sharing and creating knowledge by experiencing life in common. The name wishes to reclaim a non-vertical, energy-liberating, emancipatory environment (Free) within a protected and intimate space (Home) committed to creating a temporary, autonomous community of learners (University). A full immersion into a collective experience, sharing aspects of life, and getting deeper into the context and struggles of our local communities, as well as co-designing a coalitional approach to the definition and construction of the inquiry is considered fundamental values in this open–ended, research-based experiment in alternative education and artistic processes.
Alessandra Pomarico gave an input on the Free Home University as part of the "IAA Europe Talk - World Art Day 2025."
