AGENDA

ResidenzaLAB is a collaborative research project focused on practices of dialogue. Through relational art projects, it creates opportunities for sharing and conversation. The theme for all three years is: How can we learn from plant societies? The working group will meet in the area of San Costanzo in September 2025, 2026, and 2027.

We conceive this project as a large, heterogeneous group in which the exchange of knowledge and the exploration of the many facets of the question “How can humans learn from plant societies?” will unfold over the course of these three years.

ResidenzaLAB is a poetic exercise in conviviality and participation. Plants depend on one another in order to live. The project asks: How can we understand and transform their capacities in order to take part in our future?

Through a working group created by Annex Cultura ETS, we will connect people with diverse life paths and artists coming from Italy and neighboring countries. All participants will become active members of the project: artists, host families, local residents, associations, the curator, and the experts involved.

The ResidenzaLAB experience aims to create situations in which thinking and acting take place collaboratively through listening, study, and dialogue. Guests working across different artistic fields, such as participatory art, will collaborate with local experts and artists from San Costanzo (Italy) to develop good practices for dialogue between different realities and languages.

Each year, the documentation will grow as a resource of best practices, to be shared with anyone wishing to initiate an open process aimed at collective change as a sustainable model.

Over the course of these three years, artists from different disciplines will evolve alongside the theme of ResidenzaLAB, while each also continues to develop their own individual research.