The Other Radio / December radio session

The December radio broadcast of The Other Radio — the online radio platform and the artistic-curatorial project of the Robida Collective — is dedicated to exploring conceptual and physical spaces of the margins, as well as the conceptual networks, contents, and stories that build and permeate these marginal spaces. You can tune in to the final broadcast of the year on December 21 at: https://radio.robidacollective.com

The December radio day of Radio Robida and Radio Drugega / The Other Radio will bring the year to a close with a series of dynamic, reflective and sonically refined broadcasts that interweave explorations of borders, spaces, learning, archives, communities and contemporary radio practices. The day will open with Morning Reading Room, a morning reading of theoretical texts that, on this occasion, revisits radio practices and listening as a way of thinking.

Two regular monthly programmes will follow:
– Mejenje, the 24th episode of reflections on borders, transitions, and the many ways in which edges manifest;
– When Thinking Is Doing, the 25th episode examining the delicate threshold between thought and action.

Also returning is Branching In, Branching Out, a programme that opens conversations on alternative and contemporary pedagogical approaches within the artistic and more-than-artistic fields.

A central focus of the December schedule will be three new episodes of Medsvetovje:
– a conversation with anthropologist Giustina Selvelli, whose work traverses geopolitical boundaries, multilingualism and writing systems;
– a discussion with French philosopher Cynthia Fleury, centred on vulnerability as a political force and on the future of democratic practices;
– a presentation of four new publications by the Robida Collective, produced at the conclusion of the projects Uncommon Fruits and The Other Radio, offering a look at these freshly released titles as well as a glimpse into the collective’s plans for 2026.

The programme continues with the third episode of Loud Places by Michel Faleschini and the seventh episode of Topofonie, the sound-art project by Antonio Della Marina.

The December broadcast day also features the final episode of the residency series An Unfamiliar Ring, in which the Robida Collective speaks with writer Giorgia Maurovich.

December likewise marks the conclusion of other residency series that, in recent months, have traced relationships between space, edges and life along the border:
– Quattro foresti by Petra Filagrana, with its penultimate episode dedicated to the cinematic work of Demelza Kooij and a final episode that, in dialogue with Robida’s Elena Rucli, reveals the author’s creative process;
– Confines and Confusion by Moritz Gansen, whose penultimate episode explores animal traces and boundary lines in the forests around Topolò, while the final episode, in conversation with Vida Rucli and Aljaž Škrlep, delves deeper into the author’s practice and the concepts developed by his Berlin-based collective Diffrakt, a centre for peripheral theory;
– and the closing episode of Arhiviranje arhiva, in which Aljaž Škrlep, in conversation with Urška Savič, reflects on memory, radio form and archiving as a creative gesture.

The day will end gently with Radio Robida’s longest-running programme, Disegno in suono, with Elena Rucli, whose quiet drawing and the sonic environment surrounding it traditionally accompany listeners into the night.

The full programme will be published on December 18 at:
radio.robidacollective.com