RONG PEOPLE
RONG PEOPLE
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The practice Of Impermanence
An itinerant blank room governed by the Law of Impermanence. Rong Place is an immersive participatory art project with the aim of educating for conscious consumption of contents: objects, people, concepts.
We apply the policy of “making space” to the sensory experience by designing practices at the crossroad between art, science and technology.
We let ourselves be inspired by the creative potential of emptiness, to fill human gaps and recompose fragmented identities. We rehearse the Everyday to highlight the sacredness to our own existence.
Art is not to be consumed, life is to be created. Starting from yourself.
To begin with zero.
RONG PLACE
About the Founder
Federica Buonsante, PhD
Facilitator, Sinologist, Yogini
I created Rong Place as a way to work with an open condition: starting with one intention, and asking what it might mean to begin from zero, again and again. As a child, I was passionate about theatre. I left the stage, heavy-hearted, intimidated by the fierce industry, to pursue Chinese Studies instead. Yet, I always wondered what following that childhood dream might have meant — and that wondering turned into a deeper question: why do humans need art, and where does that need come from?
I became surprisingly good at Chinese, and years later found myself carrying that same question into doctoral research at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, focused on comparative public art and community-based practice in international contexts — on how a public space becomes a stage when humans dare to create and connect. Through this experience, I became interested in how shared, simple actions are temporary — and yet can gently reshape how a place is perceived and lived.
Over time, this path moved from theory into practice. Shaped in part by Vipassana meditation, which led me to the yogic path, I began to focus on creating situations where attention, presence, and relation could be cultivated collectively. My work today unfolds through workshops, small gatherings, and collaborative settings, where movement, listening, and simple creative acts become tools for changing how we inhabit the world together.
Your life is your story: write well, edit often.
- Susan Statham
