When See You Soon Becomes See You Later

As part of Zest Kollektiv, I co-authored this text reflecting on our residency at Robida in Topolò, Italy, in April 2025. It explores the nuances of collective learning and living together, describing how our decentralized group across Berlin, Hamburg, and Vienna engaged in shared activities—cooking, walking, making, and reflecting—while navigating the blurred boundaries between guest and host. The text emphasizes how small gestures of hospitality, unexpected encounters, and everyday tasks contributed to creating spaces of care, connection, and experimentation. Through these experiences, the residency became a site to practice learning with, embracing uncertainty, multiplicity, and the embodied, relational aspects of collaborative work.