A Roda (the wheel) is a gigantic version of the knitting or weaving mill or knitting loom: an object often made by hand, with a wooden thread cart and little nails, for example, used to make tubular knitting cords. Once upon a time, the knitting mill was part of most homes, like so many other accessories for textile manufacturing that, following industrialization, began to disappear. 

The textile materials continue to be essential for our daily lives - the clothes we dress, the sheets, the blankets, the mattress where we sleep in, the rugs, the tablecloth where we eat, the towels in which we clean ourselves after a bath, even the car upholstery and the tents - but most of them are not handmade anymore. The hand that makes the tool and that plants the plant from where we get the fiber that makes the thread, which then makes the fabric with the help of the tool, where it embroiders on top, which is then sewn to become an object. The hand that takes care of the sheep and the shears, and that works the wool, to later use the tools and use them in knitting, maybe some socks to warm the feet. The hand that also mends, reuses and recycles, that honors the process, the economy, the meeting - just like A Roda.

We sit at the wheel like our grandmothers, great-grandmothers, great-great-grandmothers, great-great-great-grandmothers, present, together, typically in squares, united by the textile action, in active mediation, hands in constant creation, shared traditions and stories. We want a handmade rescue, collective hands, to become a live organism, weaving the thread of life, the web of Arachne, connecting, talking, creating together, we, constellations. From the matter that is generated within us, infinite possibilities of creation/interaction/playing: clothing, tunnels, a gigantic chrochet thread...