• NICOLA TREZZI

  • HEATHER KNIGHT

  • MAX DUDLER

  • RAPHAEL ARAR

  • STEPHEN CLARK

HUMAN DESIGN

Shaping ideas: improving life in an ever-changing world

March 8 - 4:30 pm
Pescara, Aurum - Ideas Factory 

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” said Albert Einstein. The future of humanity will be probably based on the application of a multidisciplinary cross design to a human-to-human approach, aiming at recovering the possible, visionary uses of the most ground-breaking technologies in a purely social and cultural perspective. Our goal is to grow in exploring and understanding the new digital phenomena that is surrounding us as individuals and citizens, between art and Artificial Intelligence, architecture and social design, looking for a new balance among technological acceleration, unchanging values and actual well-being of the communities.


 

Lectio Magistralis

  • Social robotics: a new era for human-machine interaction

    What happens if the main challenge in robotic design becomes that of building efficient, enjoyable, fun machines to communicate with, rather than simply "working" machines? Heather Knight, professor of Computer Science at the University of Oregon, and her female-robot Ginger, shows the effect of a new approach on human-machine interaction, strongly inspired to the social principles of empathic communication and charisma.

Speeches

  • Art and digital technology. New languages from the Silicon Wadi

    The relationship between human identity and algorithmic mediation is at the heart of contemporary social life. Through the presentation of a series of significant works — by authors such as Miri Segal, Agnieszka Kurant and Trevor Pagle—- Nicola Trezzi has approached the theme of human design and its relationship with digital technologies and artificial intelligence, through the filter of art.

  • From artificial language to emotional machines

    The dual role of digital artist and computer designer allows Raphael Arar to frame with a single glance the technical challenges related to the construction of efficient computer systems, and the critical issues that emerge from the relationship between humans and machines. His works of art reflect and embody this relationship in a emblematic manner, by exploring the complex intertwining of cultural aspects concerning language and emotions, and the surprises emerging from the encounter between human logic and the artificial intelligence logic.

  • A new narrative for Europe

    The relationship between communication campaigns carried out with digital and traditional “on the ground” means, the difficult media environment, the skepticism and disinterest of young people. These are some of the themes that Stephen Clark, coordinator of the campaign for the European Parliament elections, addressed during the Oscar Pomilio Blumm Forum.