SOPRA SOTTO is an interdisciplinary art residency founded by Constance in 2022. It brings together artists, thought leaders, and culture shapers to engage with urgent social and environmental questions. This is done through communal living, co-created workshops, and cross-disciplinary exchange. SOPRA SOTTO approaches art as a powerful tool for research, questioning, (un)learning, and challenging the status quo, opening space for alternative futures to emerge. Creativity is understood as more than entertainment, carrying the capacity to foster connection, self-expression, emotional processing, resilience, and individual and collective healing.

Rooted in the belief that everything is interconnected, SOPRA SOTTO emphasizes collective care and more cyclical ways of living. The residency framework encourages accountability, openness, and trust, grounded in the idea that creatives are changemakers with an important role in societal transformation through ripple effects.

For spring 2026, SOPRA SOTTO invites an interdisciplinary group of artists, creatives, thinkers, community leaders, activists, and culture shapers to La Tegolaia in rural Tuscany to explore the theme CHANGE MAKERS – communal living, creativity, and care as practices of resistance.
The residency centers creativity as a way of cultivating resilience and resistance in a time of transition, when dominant systems are unraveling and new structures and ways of being are urgently needed. Art is approached as a powerful tool for questioning, challenging, and educating, while also held as a practice of radical (self)care, connection, embodied emotional processing, and healing.
Creative practitioners are approached as visionary change-makers and cultural alchemists, with creative practice understood as a means for imagining and building alternative realities and new narratives. The residency explores how creative practice can contribute to societal transformation through ripple effects, toward more interconnected, cooperative, and regenerative futures.
Set in a rural environment, the residency emphasizes reconnection to self, others, and nature. Drawing inspiration from ancestral wisdom, cyclical and seasonal living, traditional ecological knowledge, and cultural theorists such as Joanna Macy and Audre Lorde, the residency weaves togetherness, food, nature, conversation, and ceremony throughout.