ResidenzaLAB 2025–2027 in San Costanzo (PU), Italy, is an artistic research project focused on dialogue. Through contemporary relational art, a working group opens up a space for reflection and invites the community to explore together the ecosocial question:
How can we learn from plant societies?

ResidenzaLAB is a poetic exercise in conviviality and participation. Plants need one another in order to live. This project asks: How can we understand and transform their capacities so that they can participate in our future? Through a working group created by Annex Cultura ETS, we will connect people with different life paths and artists from Italy and neighbouring countries. All participants will become active members of the project: artists, host families, local residents, associations, the curator, and the collaborating experts.

The ResidenzaLAB experience aims to create situations in which thinking and action unfold collaboratively, through listening, study, and dialogue. Guests working in different artistic fields collaborate with local experts and artists to develop good practices of dialogue between different realities and languages.

We conceive this project as a large, heterogeneous group, in which the transmission of knowledge and an interest in the various interpretations of the question—How can human beings learn from plant societies?—will gradually take shape over the three years of this experience.

Each year, documentation will grow as a source of good practices, distributed to those who wish to initiate an open process aimed at shared change as a sustainable model.

The second edition will take place in San Costanzo from 16 to 30 September 2026.

ResidenzaLAB 2025-2027 is a project produced by Annex Cultura ETS.