Paul Jennings

Criafolen is a One Planet Development in the heart of West Wales. We are a family of 5 living off grid, doing sustainable building and land use, Permaculture design, Site consultation and Crafts.

Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales

Restanza and the cultural commons

Central to the idea of the Restanza, as proposed by the Italian anthropologist, Vito Teti, is that places sometimes characterised as “left behind,” inferior to the metropolitan hubs of the modern world, can be brought back to vitality, that being left behind can be reimagined as the positive act of purposively staying behind.

January 30, 2024