How can humans learn from plant society?
ResidenzaLAB is a poetic exercise in conviviality and participation. Plants need each other to survive. The project asks: How can we understand and transform their capabilities to participate in our future?
Through a working group created by Annex Cultura ETS, we will connect people from diverse walks of life and artists from Italy and abroad. All participants will become active members of the project: artists, host homes, citizens, associations, the curator, and the collaborating experts.
The ResidenzaLAB experience aims to create situations in which people think and act collaboratively through listening, study, and dialogue. Guests engaged in various artistic fields, such as participatory art, will collaborate with experts and artists from the San Costanzo area (Italy) to develop best practices for dialogue between different realities and languages.
We envision this project as a large, heterogeneous group, where the sharing of knowledge and interest in the various facets of the question "How can humans learn from plant society?" will develop over the three years of this experience.
The documentation will grow each year as a source of best practices, distributed to those who wish to initiate an open process aimed at shared change as a sustainable model.
During its first year, our initiative was sponsored, among others, by Pesaro 2024, Italian Capital of Culture, with the theme "The Nature of Culture."
The first edition of ResidenzaLAB will take place from September 15 to 25, 2025. I am thrilled to be able to begin this work. Find the public program below and come, come!
Sibylle Catherine Gabathuler Ciarloni
Curator ResidenzaLAB
Annex Cultura ETS Association
CALL FOR
ARTISTS
Many of you responded to our call. Thank you so much for your interest! We spoke to five of you, and we invited three artists in January. The decisions were not easy, but we will happily announce their names in spring and welcome them in September 2025 in San Costanzo (PU), Italy. Together, we will contribute to living openly and responsibly, following the inspirations and examples set by the world of plants.
We're delighted to invite you to get to know them. Together with artists and the community, we follow the inspiration and example offered by the world of plants. We look forward to diving into this work of research, dialogue, and collaboration.
ARTISTS
CURATORS
ARTISTS
LOCATION
September 2025 - September 2027
San Costanzo (Province of Pesaro-Urbino)
Riviera Adriatica, Italy
Would you like to support
our research?
Do you live in Italy?
Do you live in Switzerland?
DONATION PROGRAM
As a supporter you will be rewarded in this way:
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All supporters will receive a link to the online documentation where to find good practices in constructive dialogues. Available in October 2025.
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Immediately you will receive the wordsoundsRLAB playlist with tracks personally selected by the curator. The playlist will be updated every year and will be sent to you as a link (from Spotify).
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From 80 euros, you will also receive a poetic trace from the Residenza 2025 (work on paper, signed) and
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from 200 euros, you will receive a jar of preserved tomatoes from the Annex Cultura Summer 2025 Pomodori Workshop in San Costanzo.
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From 600 euros, you will be invited by the working group every September, get to know the artists and the team at a communal dinner... and experience first-hand how the work is progressing.
Those who repeat the donation, at the end of the three-year cycle will receive the planned publication in 2028.
PARTNER
PATROCINIO
Comune di San Costanzo
Pesaro 2024 Capitale
italiana della cultura
ResidenzaLAB is an initiative
created by artist and writer
Sibylle Ciarloni,
San Costanzo (IT)
www.sibylleciarloni.com
CREATIVE
COMMUNICATIONS
Sibylle Ciarloni
Marco Dini
Vera Frontfrau
Margherita Animelli
IBAN FUNDRAISING
IBAN IT08L0623068550000015281614
BIC CRPPIT2PXXX
Crédit Agricole San Costanzo
SPIAGGIA
Libera
PRIVATE
SUPPORTERS
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CONTRIBUTION
Coop Alleanza 3.0
più vicini 2024
DRAWINGS
Imelda Beller
COLLABORATION TERRITORIO
MOMA Bar Cerasa San Costanzo
CONTACT
Annex Cultura ETS
Cultural Association
TaxNumber 90055320411
RUNTS reg.no. 1053396
IBAN
IT08L0623068550000015281614
BIC CRPPIT2PXXX
Crédit Agricole San Costanzo
Strada degli Olmi 28
61039 San Costanzo (PU)
Italy
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