The programme Islands of Conviviality: An Island Pedagogy Across the Southern Dalmatian Archipelago Marking the Centenary of Ivan Illich’s Birth is taking place from September 1–9, 2026, across Split, Brač, Hvar and Vis. The programme is held in English and brings together a wide range of guest speakers and participants, including Hito Steyerl, Jürgen Renn, Claire Pentecost, Sarah Lewison, Sara Black, Yvonne Illich, Srećko Horvat, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Damir Ugljen, Armina Pilav, Jamie Allen, Valeria Graziano, Gordan Savičić, Felix Stalder, Morana Miljanović, Manja Ristić, Saša Savanović, Kevin Kenjar, Laura Lotti, Predrag Kolaković, Dora Vanette, Ivica Mitrović, Bronwyn Lay, Aleksandra Sekulić, Dennis Schep, Luís Brum, Mariana Pestana, Helin Ulas, Marianna Tsionki, Cassie Thornton, John W. Kim, the Anthropocene Commons network, and Brian Holmes.

The programme includes a guided walk and lecture through Stari Grad with Valeria Graziano and Kevin Kenjar, titled Rad Holidays: The Adriatic as a Pleasure Commons. The walk stops at familiar sights to explore unfamiliar stories from across the Adriatic, in which people challenge commodified tourism and claim the sea as a shared space for collective leisure and life.

The programme also includes the workshop What Does a Summer Cost? – an alternative imagination for island tourism, aimed at young people who live, work or study on Hvar. The workshop is co-led by Valeria Graziano and Morana Miljanović.

The programme is organised in partnership with the Island School of Social Autonomy (ISSA), Vis; OPG Divja, Brač; Pharos Institute, Hvar; UMAS Arts Academy, University of Split; Nautilus Adriaticus; Quelili sailboat for intercontinental solidarity; Ermenautica; ARKA KINARI; Culture Hub Croatia / PROSTOR, Split; the Anthropocene Commons network; metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel; Komiža Tourist Board; and Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange.

The organisers are grateful to Convivial Stiftung and the ERSTE Foundation for the support that makes this programme possible, and to co-organizer the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology for enabling the Anthropocene Commons launch event in Split.

Islands of Conviviality speaks to many friends through Forest University, hosts of an Ivan Illich reading group in the spring of 2025. The project is also working with L’Internationale / Museum of the Commons and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, which publish writings and media expositions of the project.

Further details are available at: https://issa-school.org/islands-of-conviviality-2026/#program