This week's openDemocracy guest feature, entitled Teatro Valle – Searching for a European Commons is edited by Dario Gentili and Andrea Mura, two research fellows in philosophy respectively working in Italy and the United Kingdom.
We want to offer you a taste of the highly significant experience of Teatro Valle, the oldest theatre in Rome, which, following its occupation by a large group of citizens in 2011, has achieved international recognition for its attempts to elaborate new social, political and cultural practices around the idea of direct democracy and cultural commons.