Category: Future narratives
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IRAE 4 – Biodiversity and Bio-creativity. Borders, Cultures and Languages that Generate Future
In this article I also Interview the artist Luigi Serafini about his work and his language. Meeting with Luigi Serafini to talk about borders, art, bio-creativity, sustainability. I want to know what is actually born in that border space where the beyond and the Other meet. Because often the most unexpected things arise there. This…
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Imminent 2026 – You Say Ai, I See Peonias
Every time I’m in a meeting with my colleagues, talking about the future of artificial intelligence, technology, and how it intersects with our lives, after a while I find myself picturing a huge peony. It happened to me once before, during a zombie video game demo. At first, I thought it was my way of…
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Imminent 2025 – The Younger Generations as Architects of Language
In these pages, I delve into the linguistic evolution that is reshaping contemporary cultures, emphasizing the crucial role of digital interactions in shaping new modes of communication.Through an anthropological and ethnographic lens, we examine the dynamics of hybridization and multiculturalism that emerge from the encounter between local languages and English, the global lingua franca. The…
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IRAE 3 – Black Waters
There are worlds down there that live different lives and face impossible challenges. Trying to understand them means leaving behind everything we know. That trees are important to provide oxygen for life, that life cannot exist without oxygen, that light becomes energy, that to eat you just have to pick fruits. That the day is…
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IRAE 2 – The rest is nature
Nature is perfect, and in nature there is no waste. Instead, we have found out a thousand ways to waste, we have imagined a thousand ways to destroy the world. How can we reinvent food, or generally look at the planet’s metabolic flow and reconsider the role of human beings and their nutrition within this system? How can we get out of an anthropocentric vision of life, and…
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IRAE 1 – The food, the design, and a new eco-collaborative intelligence.
Design and creativity are called upon to rethink the world from a new point of view, one that must include sustainability as the guidepost for reconstruction. Reconstruction of a violated, ill planet, in which many models of consumption which we are accustomed to are failing and short-lived. People are experiencing an eco-reawakening. They are more…