ARTS-BASED LAB FOR CREATIVE & SOCIAL WELLBEING
Room for attention
We bring focus, listening and shared creation back into schools and cultural spaces through images, movement, sound and symbols.
2016 - 2020
Research-based
Grounded in three years of academic research on transcultural readings of public art and community-based practices worldwide.
2020-2024
Funded & Tested
Field research and participatory formats supported by Puglia’s regional programme for social innovation (PIN) and by private sponsors who believe in our mission.
2024-2026
Design
Our offer takes shape, together with a sustainable model to bring it to schools and communities alike.
4 countries
30+ participatory workshops led across Italy, Switzerland, Brazil and China.
Active Void
We live in a world that rarely stops talking to us. Rong Place works on a simple principle: an empty space can restore presence. With Active Void the principle becomes a practice in place. A room with a few simple rules. Inside, guided practices of body, language, vibration and symbols help attention and shared creation return.
Permanent room
Mobile space
Inside schools, cultural centres or places of transit.
Ideal for educational programmes, events, community centers & festivals.
Workshops
OUR FLAGSHIP
Guided and tailored sessions for students, teachers and teams.
An empty space, on purpouse
What we do
EXPERIENCE
Workshops for groups
Immersive practice formats where art, movement, sound and symbolic representation become tools for connection and learning. Each format is site-responsive, adapting to the identity of a place while cultivating presence, participation and collective imagination.
LEARN
Courses & Journeys
Dedicated journeys that combine symbolic inquiry and language as practices of attention and learning. Each encounter becomes a space for deeper listening, reflection and decision-making.
DESIGN
Projects with institutions
Collaborative projects developed with cultural institutions, hospitality venues, educational organisations and research platforms to develop participatory projects shaped by artistic research, cultural design and the specific qualities and needs of each context.
FOUNDER
Federica Buonsante
Arts-based researcher · cultural project designer · creative wellbeing facilitator
Her work crosses public art, Chinese philosophy, embodied movement practices and cultural design. She founded Rong Place to test how small, intentional spaces can change the way we learn together.
RÓNG: to integrate, to harmonize, to unify.
Evoking the material quality of things that dissolve and expand...
