The communal experience (2) : civic life

The seminar continues the reflection initiated by last year's collective workshop, drawing on the problematic achievements of a long-term transdisciplinary redefinition of the communal experience. The notion is understood here in three ways: the political experimentation of a government of the common; the transmission of these experiences in a reinvented memory of historical becoming; the sensitive experience of making common insofar as it affects the lives of those who commit or abandon themselves to it. Focusing henceforth on the notion of civic life, we will seek to deepen this lived history of the discontinuity of political practices, based on experiences historically situated in communal Italy, seen not as an exception but as an accentuation of a common European history. From the pre-communal effervescence seen through the prism of political emotions or institutional improvisations, to the seigneurial experiments that perhaps pursue the commune by other means, we propose a journey that is both historical and historiographical, which, through social, urban or legal history, attempts to confront the same question: how do we institute the common?