The programme
of Italy's Biennial of Technology - a well thought through series of free public talks in mid-April, this year devoted to "Realistic Utopias" - was launched today.
The event is organised by the
Politecnico di Torino
(Turin, Italy), under the stewardship of co-curators
Juan Carlos De Martin
and
Luca De Biase
.
Based on previous years, we can expect videos of the talks in original language to be available very soon after the talks on this Youtube channel
.
Please note that the "conference links" below are all referring to pages in Italian (translations will probably follow soon).
International speakers who will talk in English include:
-
Cory Doctorow
(conference link
) - Cory will talk about internet "enshittification" of course. The Italian term is apparently "Merdocene", a contraction of "Merda" [shit] and "cene", which is the international suffix to describe geological epochs [therefore - geologists might claim - is definitely somewhat exaggerated in this context]. Yet surely Cory will be captivating.
-
Carlos Moreno
(conference link
) - Also Carlos' talk is about a straightforward topic: the 15 minute city. But in the context of Minister Matteo Salvini's recent road safety plan this is definitely to look forward to. [We are not sure he will talk in English, French or Spanish, let's see.]
- Bruce Sterling (conference link
) - The title of Bruce's talk is "home-made utopias", and we don't want to speculate about what he is going to talk about, as he is known for delightful surprises.
-
Geert Lovink
(conference link
) talks about how we should break the power of the monopolies and take back the Internet.
-
David Edgerton
(conference link
) approaches the importance of storytelling on our perception of what is real and how this will influence governmental decision making.
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun of
加拿大西蒙弗雷泽大学
(conference link
) will discuss how algorithms discriminate.
- Harry Parker (conference link
) addresses how the perfect integration of the biological and the artificial will change our concept of identity.
-
Daniel Cardoso Llach
and
Fredy Fortich
(conference link
) discuss how artificial intelligence can be applied in the field of architecture
- Reinier de Graaf (conference link
) explores the new language of green building.
-
Farrokh Derakhshani
of the
Aga Khan Award for Architecture
and
Francesca De Filippi
, director of the Centre for Research and Documentation on Habitat in the Global South (conference link
) will explore the delicate balance between the use of traditional technologies and the needs dictated by an increasingly resource-hungry modernity.
- Thomas Mullaney of
美国斯坦福大学
(conference link
) delves into Chinese technology.
-
Roma Agrawal
(conference link
) explores how the nail constructed the world.
- Other international speakers, of which we are not sure they will speak in English, are
Anne L'Huillier
,
Yasuo Deguchi
(conference link
), Pascal Chabot (conference link
), and Manuel Lucena and
Monica Rita Bedana
(conference link
).
