Date & Time: Saturday, December 13, 2025 12:00-13:00
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Sunken Lounge (B2F)
Admission: Free (a TABF admission ticket valid on the day of the event is required)
*No reservation is required for this talk event—please feel free to join us.
Language: Japanese, English [Interpreter: Kenichi Eguchi]
Speakers: Elena Rucli (architect, illustrator) × Antônio Frederico Lasalvia (architect)
Robida is a collective that works at the intersection of written and spoken words – with Robida Magazine and Radio Robida – and spatial practices - with residencies and workshops. Robida will present their main publications and projects related to the post-rural village Topolò/Topolove, where the collective is based, on the border between Italy and Slovenia. In this village, though a cultural work, they bring central theories in marginal places. In its everyday life and practice, Robida advocates for a future of common dwelling, an expansion of the concept of a resident to include in its definition also more-than-human inhabitants of Topolò and a deconstruction of some of the basic oppositions haunting modern ways of living: rural/urban, inside/outside, public/private, host/guest.
Elena Rucli
Elena Rucli is an architect, teacher and illustrator. Since 2016, she has been part of the Robida collective, which, through various projects, explores how to repopulate Topolò, an isolated post-rural village on the border between Italy and Slovenia, through cultural work. She lives permanently in Topolò, where she has bought a house and is renovating a small stone barn to turn it into a future studio. In recent years, she has been developing her interest in ceramics.
Antônio Frederico Lasalvia
Antônio Frederico Lasalvia is an undisciplined architect from Brazil, based in Topolò/Topolove, Italy. He is drawn to the dynamics of shared authorship and the emergent potential of collaborative processes, not only as a way of working, but as a political, aesthetic and metaphysical stance. He is also engaged with critical spatial practices, exploring how agency is distributed across materials, tools and techniques.
Robida Collective