Casa Carlotta is part of a movement of residencies, schools, and other alternative collectives around the world that are concerned with the present as a means of imagining a new future, one that preserves part of the past. We believe that it is through organising and creating with others that we can address the political and environmental situation of decaying landscapes and cultures. As a collective and a home, we aspire to serve as, and model, networks of human connection that are disappearing.
We are a dynamic community in action and in movement. We are a collective imagination, a centre-held in solidarity with a contemporary moment that asks us to pay attention, to notice, to connect with what it means to live, to live in a life that is made up of complex processes and not ends, to break bread with the will and hearts and hopes of strangers who through doing together may become less strange. We offer and we uphold the forms of care we observe in a troubled world as a way of preserving, cultivating, and reinventing them for future generations.
CASA CARLOTTA is a residency program and creative laboratory that connects contemporary artistic practices and creatives with positive global action, through site-specific projects, curated collective residencies, and social good initiatives.
Using a shared lingua franca, we discuss, dream, decide, and when language is missing, we use our hands. Palm to palm, fingertips touching, listening.
Sophie Strobele
Grandchild of Charlotte Strobele and co-founder and head of the project behind Casa Carlotta, Sophie Strobele is also co-founder of ERE Collective, a philanthropic organization and endowment fund connecting the creative industry with nonprofits through artistic work. Besides her activity as model, she has been curating an art space in Paris for the past 2 years, Sheriff Gallery, at 53 Rue Turenne. Through this opportunity, she has built group shows with over 100 participating artists to raise funds for a multitude of nonprofits. Sophie Strobele continues to unite artists, creatives and the public around engaging subjects that touch the most pressing environmental and social matters of today. Her work as independent curator led her to exhibit at a variety of art institutions, such as Fondation Fiminco, 3537, Palais de Tokyo and the V+A in London.
ERE Collective
Paris-based ERE Collective connects the creative industry with positive impact projects through artistic works. Since its founding in 2020 as an endowment fund, ERE has raised and distributed significant support to nonprofits without any institutional help. Past collaborators include UN advisors, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, international organizations like “The OR is present,” France-based institutions like the Relais and Emmaus, as well as grassroots organizations in Kenya, Senegal, Indonesia, Brazil, Ukraine, and Afghanistan. ERE’s projects have been featured in Vogue, AnOther Magazine, WSJ, WWD, Dazed and Confused, and Atmos Magazine, among others. ERE Collective has been a guest speaker at the Parsons New School of Design, the IFM Fashion Institute and la Caserne in Paris.
Dylan Cox
Dylan Cox is an independent researcher, poet, writer, as well as a professional recording artist and performing musician. With his degree in philosophy and literature from UC Berkeley, and his research at L’Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, he has focused on creating work that reflects on forms of life and poetry, ecology and rurality, alternative schooling, hospitality, and cosmopolitical futures. He also helped run La Villa Magnan, a creative chambre d’hôte, shooting location, and cultural destination in Biarritz, France.
Candice Pigeard
Candice Pigeard graduated in urban governance at Sciences Po Urban School, has created an art residency in Lisbon, and works as a project manager for a mixed use neighborhood in France. A member of Ecole Zero, a collective exploring alternative ways to « make school », and developing the Institut de la Transition Foncière whose purpose is to advocate for soil preservation, Candice has interest in bringing together territorial development, public policy, and culture which is the aim of Casa Carlotta with Borgo Valsugana and its region.
Candice Pigeard graduated in urban governance at Sciences Po Urban School, has created an art residency in Lisbon, and works as a project manager for a mixed use neighborhood in France. A member of Ecole Zero, a collective exploring alternative ways to « make school », and developing the Institut de la Transition Foncière whose purpose is to advocate for soil preservation, Candice has interest in bringing together territorial development, public policy, and culture which is the aim of Casa Carlotta with Borgo Valsugana and its region.
Alessia Rapetti
Alessia Rapetti graduated in architecture from the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio and works as an architect and artist in Paris. Since some years she has started a personal artistic and life research pursuit focused on the theme of metamorphosis in which she investigates the affinities and relationships that bind us with the natural world through the use of drawing, photography. and performance.
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