Treballu is a rural creative hub in Laconi, Sardinia.
It started with a small house in the centre of Laconi.
Over five years, it became something harder to name — a community, a set of projects, a way of thinking about what it means to live in a rural place. Now we're building what that experience pointed toward.
How it started.
Treballu began in a small house in Laconi. Two bedrooms, a kitchen and a courtyard, from the work of Associazione Culturale Giovani Iddocca, active in Laconi since 2011.
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING
Some of our projects
The things we're building right now — a public space, a network, a festival, a residency. Rooted in Laconi, connected to Europe.
UPCOMING EVENT
Three weeks to build something together
13th JULY - 3rd AUGUST
10 SPOTS AVAILABLE
21 days of co-creation in Laconi. Part residency, part community experiment, part festival-building.
tARTufo will brings together artists, researchers, makers, and curious people to live and work together — and to build something real in the process.
The programme will be designed collectively, on-site. What will gets built during the retreat becomes part of the village — including Storie dal Vicolo, the local festival that grows from it each year.
OUR APPROACH
A village to live in,
not just visit.
Coliving, for us, is not about shared houses. It's about people who decide to inhabit a place — its streets, its relationships, its open questions.
Laconi is a small village in central Sardinia with a lot of unfinished work: cultural spaces to activate, communities to connect, new ways of living rural areas to invent.
We're looking for people who want to be part of that work. Who bring their skills, their energy, and their time — and find something in return that's harder to find elsewhere.
Who we work with
Treballu doesn't work alone. Over the years we've built relationships with networks, institutions, and organisations that share the same conviction: that rural areas are places where things can be built, not just visited.
In 2025, Laconi was recognised by the EU Joint Research Centre as a European Startup Village — an acknowledgement of work that's been happening here for years, quietly and collectively.
WE ARE PART OF
