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Press release: When data become cultural interface: the Comment “From environmental sensing to societal listening” published in Nature Sensors and featured on the cover of the September issue

milena — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:10:14 +0000

The Comment by Milena Di Canio, Filippo Gregoretti, Hiroaki Kitano and Vittorio Loreto proposes to understand environmental sensing systems not only as tools for measurement, but as cultural interfaces capable of transforming environmental data into public awareness, collective attention and shared response.

The Comment “From environmental sensing to societal listening” has been published in Nature Sensors and selected for the cover of the journal’s September issue. The article stems from the collaboration among Milena Di Canio, who works on the cultural, narrative and communication dimension of projects at Sony CSL – Rome; Filippo Gregoretti, multidisciplinary artist, musician and Professor at the Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples; Hiroaki Kitano, President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL), Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and a leading figure in artificial intelligence and robotics; and Vittorio Loreto, Professor of Physics of Complex Systems at Sapienza University of Rome, Director of Sony CSL – Rome, and a scientist whose work focuses on innovation, creativity and emergent phenomena.

The Comment addresses one of the central challenges of contemporary environmental governance: sensors, monitoring networks and data infrastructures can now capture environmental change with unprecedented precision, yet data alone are not enough. To support awareness and collective action, environmental signals need to become perceptible, interpretable and meaningful within the public sphere.

This is the basis of the concept of societal listening, proposed by the authors as the collective ability to perceive environmental signals, understand their implications and respond before they become emergencies. In this perspective, environmental sensing systems can be understood not only as technical devices, but as cultural interfaces: tools that connect scientific measurement, sensory experience, public imagination and institutional responsibility.

The reflection also draws on Ulysses’ Gates, presented on the occasion of the 2026 Venice Biennale as the first chapter of Climate-tides. The project originated from an idea by Ambassador Umberto Vattani, President of Venice International University and a key figure in the dialogue between culture, institutions and international relations, who gave rise to this first chapter dedicated to Venice, water, tides and the MOSE system as an invisible infrastructure of protection and listening.

Created by Filippo Gregoretti, Hiroaki Kitano and Vittorio Loreto, Ulysses’ Gates transforms more than a century of lagoon data, tidal records, environmental signals and data connected to the MOSE system into sound, music and generative images. The work, developed with the technical setup support of PROMU s.r.l., does not use data as an aesthetic material in itself, but as a way to make environmental change perceptible, shareable and capable of fostering awareness. The development of the cultural and narrative framework of Climate-tides / Ulysses’ Gates was accompanied by the work of Milena Di Canio, with the support of Yoko Honjo, Chief Administration & Communication Officer at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, in strengthening the cultural dimension of the project across its different stages.

The September cover of Nature Sensors visually reflects this idea: the image, connected to Ulysses’ Gates, was composed by the authors and designed by Alex Whitworth, from an original photograph of a Venetian “briccola”, combined with the presence of water and sound-frequency lines. The composition evokes the passage from environmental signal to its translation into a visible, audible and shared form.

The Comment is part of the broader path opened by Climate-tides, an art–science project dedicated to tides, climate change and new forms of listening to nature. Starting from Venice, a symbolic place where the relationship between city, water and infrastructures of protection acquires universal resonance, the project questions how societies can learn to listen to environmental signals before they become crises.

Read the publication!

Info: milena.dicanio@sony.com yoko.honjo@sony.com

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New Comment published in Nature Sensors: From environmental sensing to societal listening

milena — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:19:48 +0000

A new Comment by Milena Di Canio, Filippo Gregoretti, Hiroaki Kitano and Vittorio Loreto has been published in Nature Sensors.

Titled “From environmental sensing to societal listening”, the article explores how environmental sensing systems can be understood not only as technical tools for measurement, but also as cultural interfaces capable of transforming environmental signals into public awareness, shared interpretation and collective response.

The Comment addresses a central challenge in environmental governance: while sensors and monitoring infrastructures capture environmental change with unprecedented precision, data alone do not necessarily enter public experience or support action. Bridging the gap between technical detection and public perception is essential to make environmental signals perceptible, meaningful and actionable before they become emergencies.

Starting from the case of Venice and its changing relationship with water, tides, acqua alta and the MOSE system, the article proposes the concept of societal listening: the collective ability to notice environmental signals, interpret their implications and respond before change becomes catastrophe.

The reflection also draws on Ulysses’ Gates, presented on the occasion of the 2026 Venice Biennale as the first chapter of Climate-tides, as a concrete case through which environmental data, historical tidal records and operational signals can be translated into shared sensory experience not as an aesthetic end in itself, but as a way to foster public awareness.

The publication grew out of the collaboration among the authors, who also worked together on Ulysses’ Gates / Climate-tides.

A special thank you to Yoko Honjo for her support in nurturing the cultural dimension of the project and helping it take shape across its different stages.

Ulysses’ Gates presented in Venice on the occasion of the 2026 Venice Biennale

milena — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:25:00 +0000

Ulysses’ Gates, the first chapter of Climate-tides, was presented in Venice at the Art Gallery of Caffè In Paradiso on the occasion of the opening of the 2026 Venice Biennale.

The presentation marked the first public encounter with the project, which brings together art, science and technology to explore Venice’s relationship with water, tides, climate change and infrastructures of protection. The event was met with great interest and participation from the public, opening a shared space of reflection around one of the most symbolic and urgent questions of the lagoon city: how to listen to environmental transformation before it becomes emergency.

Ulysses’ Gates stems from a cultural proposition by Umberto Vattani: to interpret the theme of the 2026 Biennale Arte, In Minor Keys, curated by Koyo Kouoh, by transforming the sound and presence of the MOSE, Venice’s invisible defence against rising sea levels, into an artistic experience. From this initial intuition, the dialogue among the authors opened into the broader framework of Climate-tides, an art–science series dedicated to tides, climate change and new forms of listening to nature.

Created by Filippo Gregoretti, Hiroaki Kitano and Vittorio Loreto, the work transforms more than a century of lagoon history, tidal records, environmental signals and data connected to the MOSE system into sound, music and generative images. The project does not treat data as neutral information alone, nor as aesthetic material in itself. Rather, it uses artistic and technological languages to make environmental change perceptible, meaningful and collectively shareable.

During the presentation, Hiroaki Kitano and Vittorio Loreto introduced the scientific and conceptual dimensions of the work, addressing the role of artificial intelligence, complex systems, environmental data and technological infrastructures in understanding transformation. Filippo Gregoretti presented the artistic and generative dimension of the project, showing how data, thresholds and movements of the lagoon can become a sonic and visual composition: not only a representation of environmental change, but an experience of listening.

At the centre of Ulysses’ Gates is Venice itself: a city built on water and within water, which for centuries has not lived against the sea, but in dialogue with it. Its history is made of fragile balances, thresholds and adaptations. Today, however, that rhythm is changing. The challenge is no longer only the sudden storm or the exceptional event of acqua alta, but a slower and more continuous transformation: rising sea levels, climate change and the increasing frequency with which nature exceeds the thresholds that humankind had learned to recognise.

In this narrative, the MOSE is not presented as a final victory over the sea, but as a threshold. Hidden on the seabed and rising only when the threat becomes concrete, it embodies a form of protection that does not erase fragility. It intervenes, restores balance, and then disappears. For this reason, Ulysses’ Gates evokes not domination, but vigilance; not conquest, but adaptation. Protecting Venice does not mean denying the sea. It means continuing to listen to it.

The cultural and narrative framework of the project has been developed with the contribution of Milena Di Canio, who has accompanied Climate-tides / Ulysses’ Gates since its early stages, working on the language through which the project connects art, science, environmental data, Venice, listening and climate awareness. A special thank you also goes to Yoko Honjo for her support in nurturing the cultural dimension of the project and helping it take shape across its different stages.

With Ulysses’ Gates, Venice is not only the site of the work. It is its interlocutor: the body that breathes, resists and adapts. The first chapter of Climate-tides opens from this fragile and powerful image, inviting us to rethink the relationship between civilisation and nature through attention, care and listening.

The sea becomes a voice.
Data become a way of listening.

Sony CSL – Rome at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale

milena — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:32:35 +0000

We are thrilled to share that Sony CSL – Rome has been invited to present their work at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025, as part of the exhibition Lighter within the general framework of the triennale dedicated to the inspiring question: How Heavy is a City?

The installation, titled The Weight of Urban Inequalities, reflects on the invisible forces shaping how we move, live, and breathe within urban spaces.

The installation was curated by Vittorio Loreto, Milena Di Canio, and Matteo Bruno, who collaborated closely to transform scientific insights into a story and a visual experience. Drawing on research developed at Sony CSL – Rome, the work translates complex data about accessibility and inequality into a sensory representation of the “weight” each citizen carries in navigating the city.

Living in a city carries its own weight. Moving around to reach our points of interest or essential places carries weight, meant as effort, burden. Going for a run in the park, meeting people, having a coffee, visiting an exhibition, taking care of our health, feeling accepted by the community, and spending our time; everything carries weight in the city. And a city’s weight becomes heavier the more unequal its access to opportunities is.
Inequalities in accessing and enjoying housing solutions, infrastructures, efficient transport, green areas, hospitals, recreational centres, and much more often become obstacles to the growth of cities and the people who inhabit them. Many are forced to leave, or else live under conditions of social segregation.
This is why “What if?” becomes the guiding question of our research when applied to urban contexts. We begin by observing a city’s state-of-the-art and formulating, first within ourselves, a triggering question: “What if people could have equal access to the countless opportunities a city can offer? And if not fully equal, then at least more balanced?” From there, we project this question outward, turning it into a scientific objective: to imagine (and propose) possible future scenarios in which everyone is more and more released from this weight, aiming for a more equal and sustainable life, where the words LIVING, MOVING, BREATHING stand as fundamental pillars.

The piece emerges from “What if Machines”, which are computational systems designed to analyse future scenarios through the lens of complexity theory, based on mathematics and laws of physics. They represent our method for predicting dynamic outcomes, managing intricate patterns, and adapting to evolving variables. These systems foresee potential developments by processing vast datasets, making informed decisions more achievable. Their predictive power reshapes how we navigate uncertainty and complexity. These systems help us imagine and test more equitable futures by asking a simple but powerful question: What if everyone could access the city’s opportunities equally?

Presented at the Triennale, The Weight of Urban Inequalities invites visitors to reflect on the unseen burdens embedded in urban life, and on the collective possibility of making cities lighter, fairer, and more livable for all. The exhibition, curated by John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog of Territorial Agency, can be visited at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture of Lisbon until January 2026.

Surfing the waves of human complexity

milena — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:47:25 +0000

Summer at Sony CSL – Rome brought about significant developments across the lab’s main research areas, which centre on studying Complex Systems and their application to various aspects of human life. Sony CSL – Rome functions as a scientific ecosystem where curiosity and interdisciplinary research are continuously linked to real-world impact. The organisation examines numerous perspectives, including urban organisation, equitable access to resources and opportunities, and how creativity can enhance interactions with emerging technologies. Additionally, it aims to understand which innovations are likely to have the most substantial influence on our future, prompting us to reflect on the role we should play as human beings. This collaborative effort, bolstered by partnerships with the Enrico Fermi Research Centre and Sapienza University of Rome, has led to a growing number of publications in leading scientific journals. These publications provide valuable insights into how complexity shapes various aspects of human endeavours.

Cities
The paper Revealing the core-periphery structure of cities (Federica Fanelli, Hygor Melo, Matteo Bruno, Vittorio Loreto) applies concepts from statistical physics to urban systems, showing how amenities cluster into cores, intermediate zones, and peripheries. This framework highlights how accessibility and inequality are embedded in the spatial organization of cities.

Complementing this, Introducing Friction of Space into the Geography of Cultural Consumption (Lorenzo Biferale, Alessandro Crociata Lavinia Rossi Mori, Claudio Chiappetta, Matteo Bruno) uses GPS mobility data to study how proximity to cultural amenities shapes cultural consumption, revealing persistent spatial inequalities in access and participation.

Finally, Road-Width-Aware Network Optimisation for Bike Lane Planning (Riccardo Basilone, Matteo Bruno, Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo, Michele Avalle, Vittorio Loreto) introduces a new framework for planning cycling infrastructure by integrating road width data into network simulations. Focusing on Milan, the study shows how protected bike lanes can be optimised to balance connectivity for cyclists with minimal disruption to car traffic. The results demonstrate that extensive, realistic cycling networks can be created with limited impact on existing roads, providing urban planners with flexible strategies for the transition to sustainable mobility.

Human Creativity and AI
Two papers present new methods to expand AI’s creative potential. Dreaming Learning (Alessandro Londei, Matteo Benati, Denise Lanzieri, Vittorio Loreto) introduces an approach that allows machines to internally explore new ideas while remaining consistent with prior knowledge. This enables the development of less conservative and more adaptive solutions.

The second paper, Lyapunov Learning at the Onset of Chaos (Alessandro Londei, Denise Lanzieri, Matteo Benati, Vittorio Loreto), builds on this concept by leveraging the system’s own complex dynamics. This method pushes AI close to instability, paradoxically enhancing its ability to handle novel situations and creative challenges.

Economy and Technological Innovation
The study Comparative analysis of technological fitness and coherence at different geographical scales (Matteo Straccamore, Matteo Bruno, Andrea Tacchella) shows that the effects of technological specialisation and diversification on economic growth vary depending on the territorial scale. While specialisation benefits metropolitan areas, it hinders growth at larger scales, whereas diversification enhances national and metropolitan performance but not regional growth. These findings emphasise the importance of tailoring innovation policies to geographical contexts.

Exploring the Origins of Novelty
The paper Modelling singularities in macroevolution (Alessandro Bellina, Giordano De Marzo, Vittorio Loreto) develops mathematical models based on the Theory of the Adjacent Possible, which explain sudden explosive growth in systems like population, technology, and biological evolution. The results suggest that apparent singularities are not actual infinities, but signs of deep transitions where new combinations of existing elements open unforeseen trajectories of change. Another published paper on the same topic from the same authors here: Full spectrum of novelties in time-dependent urn.

Research on complexity shows that sudden changes, inequalities, and breakthroughs often arise from hidden dynamics that connect individual actions to collective outcomes. By bringing these mechanisms to light, we are reminded of our role as active participants in steering innovation, creating fairer societies, and ensuring that technology truly serves human life. The work at Sony CSL in Rome illustrates that understanding complexity is not just about acquiring knowledge; it is also about consciously shaping the future.

“Duetto-Human Movement and AI”, the full documentary is now available

milena — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:37:47 +0000

“Duetto” is a research project in which the relationship between artificial intelligence and human movement is investigated, it was born within the S+T+ARTS project, a European program that promotes the exchange between Science, Technology and Art, and is led by Sony CSL – Rome, in collaboration with Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto, La Piroetta Dance School/Aleph Dance Company and the European University of Rome.

Duetto is an innovative scientific project that combines generative artificial intelligence with the study of human movement. The goal is to develop models that can understand how people move in response to certain inputs. To achieve this, we asked performers at various levels to dance in front of some cameras to a variety of music asking them to improvise! During this phase of data collection, we also collaborated with choreographers and maitre de ballet so that they could, in some cases, direct the movement of the dancers through choreographic hints, to make sure that their movement was as varied as possible.

Preliminary experiments have already made it clear that “Duetto” will become more and more like a virtual creative partner for the choreographer or dancer, that is, a system capable of suggesting new movement sequences, exploring original solutions that go beyond traditional canons. Artificial intelligence would not merely imitate what already exists, but would be capable of coming up with fresh new ideas, which the dancer may or may not take in, adapt, or rework.

Watch the promo of the project below!

To better understand “Duetto,” a comparison can be made with a language model such as ChatGPT. If ChatGPT works with words and creates sentences by combining them in meaningful ways, “Duetto” does the same with the human body: it takes body postures as “words” and combines them into sequences that become actual “body talk,” or movements.

In short, “Duetto” explores the language of movement and dialogues with those who interact with it through physical propositions that stimulate the imagination, offering a new way to create, improvise and innovate in the field of dance and, more generally, the performing arts.

Studying this kind of human-machine interaction centered on movement is very interesting for several reasons, first of all there is our scientific interest in the study of what a novelty is and how it is created, then there’s the fundamental question about human creativity: far from replacing us, can AI be useful to our creativity, can it increase our creativity so that it can be useful to us in finding more and more fitting solutions to the most diverse problems of humanity? Also, it is true that we are passionate about dance and in general about all the arts and how they have been intertwined with scientific and technological development for millennia, however, dance is a nice starting point for us to be able to understand also other types of movement in which artificial intelligence can be really very useful to us, we are talking about frontiers such as microsurgery, rehabilitation, preservation of ancient gestures and so on.

Watch below the full documentary on the first project’s developments, it contains interviews to the researchers, dancers, choreographers, psychologists who are taking part in this amazing activity!

Sony CSL at Expo Osaka 2025

milena — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:36:47 +0000

Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL) participated in Expo Osaka 2025 as part of the activities planned by the Italian Pavilion and in particular within the week dedicated to opportunities and growth scenarios for businesses in the Lazio region.

Specifically, Sony CSL implemented its participation through two addresses during the event “Investing in Lazio: Japan tells Italy in Osaka through the territory,” which were held on May 19 at 3:30 p.m. at the Auditorium of the Italian Pavilion.

Hiroaki Kitano, Chief Technology Fellow of Sony Group Corporation as well as president and CEO of Sony CSL, and Vittorio Loreto, director of Sony CSL – Rome, alternated themselves to tell the audience in the room the story of a virtuous relationship established between Sony CSL and the Lazio territory that gave birth, a few years ago, to the research institution’s Rome laboratory, which before 2022, had its European base in the city of Paris alone.

Therefore, central to Hiroaki Kitano‘s speech has been the narration of what it means for an organization like Sony CSL to invest in Italy and in particular in the Lazio Region in a crucial sector such as scientific research and within a global landscape in total revolution from the point of view of global challenges. This was followed by a talk by Vittorio Loreto, scientific director of the Roman laboratory (Sony CSL – Rome), who dropped Kitano’s words into the territorial context to talk about the ecosystem of knowledge and know-how that the Roman laboratory has generated at the municipal and regional level and how the latter has been able to attract attention abroad.

In particular, Loreto brought the example of the research studies on cities and the urban environment that have already been the subject of an agreement with Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale in a way that we imagine could be scalable to other areas and institutions, and will announce what research projects Sony CSL is investing in in the area and the implications in terms of impact and value creation.

“Our research studies in the field of cities and urban environment have already been the subject of an agreement with Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, in a way that we imagine could be scalable to other areas and institutions”- said Vittorio Loreto scientific director of Sony CSL – Rome “and this is only the tangible part of the virtuous processes triggered by the presence of Sony CSL in the territory, in addition there is a whole network made up of people, skills and interactions that is creating an extremely thriving ecosystem based on the exchange of knowledge at high levels that is perhaps the phenomenon to be observed with the greatest interest.”

Picture: Italy Expo 2025 Osaka

About cities and inequalities, the new study by Sony CSL – Rome featured in Nature Cities

milena — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:45:48 +0000

“A universal framework for inclusive 15-minute cities”, the recent publication by the Sustainable Cities Research Line at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories – Rome ends up in the monthly online journal by Nature.

“A universal framework for inclusive 15-minute cities”, the study by Matteo Bruno, Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo, Bruno Campanelli led by Vittorio Loreto from the Sustainable Cities Research Line at Sony Computer Science Laboratories – Rome (Sony CSL – Rome) has been featured in Nature Cities and the content has been deemed to be of high interest to the scientific community. (Available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00119-4).

The paper “A universal framework for inclusive 15-minute cities” starts from the concept of the 15-minute city, which proposes that urban areas can operate more efficiently, fairly, and sustainably when vital everyday services and essential amenities are accessible within a 15-minute distance of walking or biking. The study analyses a vast number of cities worldwide and finds that, within the framework of the 15-minute city, the accessibility to services by citizens is highly heterogeneous within and across cities, meaning that urban areas present a high level of inequalities given mainly by the poor or difficult accessibility to services by citizens.

The researchers tried to answer these questions by creating a “relocation algorithm,” which will help understand how to increase the number of citizens who can access services in a given urban area and reduce inequalities. In addition, the “algorithm” is also essential in simulating how a city would respond to an increase in services until it reaches the 15-minute framework and how the number of needed services can vary among different cities.

But why is all this useful? Well, in principle, to have a better comprehension of the cities we live in, of the complex problems citizens face and of the complex possible solutions, but also to understand that cities are different to each other, and they need tailored solutions to their complexities and the 15-minute framework is just one of the possible scenarios. Managing such a tool, urbanists, engineers, and policy-makers could concentrate on non-standardised solutions for their cities; on the contrary, they could work on the most suitable ones in a way that cities are more accessible to a more significant number of people.

The benefits of more equitable cities are infinitely varied: having better access to healthcare, education, culture, amenities, and all the range of opportunities cities can offer as centres of human creativity makes us better citizens of the entire world.

About Nature Cities

Nature Cities is the monthly online journal that publishes insightful research and opinions about cities and urban issues broadly, aiming to deepen and integrate basic and applied understanding of the nature of cities, including their roles, impacts, influences, past, present, and future. At this scope, the journal features cutting-edge research, synthetic reviews and timely news and opinions. By bringing together diverse content and voices, it aims to transcend divides among disciplines, regions, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and the public. (ref: https://www.nature.com/natcities/journal-information)

Rome Future Week: our collaboration with Rome Municipality in the name of Innovation

milena — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:55:21 +0000

Sony CSL – Rome will be the scientific partner of the “Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti” (CTE) on the occasion of the Rome Future Week 2024; the three entities will collaborate for the creation of the city’s Innovation Map.

Announcing this is Monica Lucarelli, Rome Municipality’s councillor for Security Policies, Productive Activities, Equal Opportunities and President of the CTE Board, who describes the agreement as “a significant step for the future of innovation in the Capital.”

“The Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti,” explains the Councillor, “is working on creating an ecosystem that brings together different innovation actors to improve the services offered to the city. Now, thanks to this collaboration, we will develop an innovation map that will serve as a platform for aggregation, combining ideas, services, and showing opportunities. The creation of this map will help us to understand and adequately respond to the demands of an increasingly connected citizenry, directing our actions effectively and smartly to improve the quality of life for those living in Rome, and also the quality of the experience we offer to visitors to our city.”

“There are many innovation maps, but what we ask ourselves is: is there one that goes beyond the clichés of places and manages to map innovation in a more widespread way, without leaving behind the commitment of those individual realities that no one talks about and no one knows?” comments Milena Di Canio, communications manager for the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome.

“This is the challenge posed by Sony CSL,” she explains, “our researchers, Matteo Bruno and Hygor Melo, guided by the research director, Professor Vittorio Loreto, are already working to define the key parameters and criteria for this unique map of its kind. Together, we are exploring new perspectives and scientific approaches to fully understand the fabric of innovation in our city.”

Michele Franzese, the creator of the Rome Future Week, is pleased with the partnership. “During a visit to the headquarters of Sony CSL – Rome,” he recounts, “we were faced with a stimulating surprise: an interactive map that allowed us to note the sensations of the various areas of Rome. This approach goes beyond mere execution, aiming towards listening to and understanding the territory.”

Press

The Eco of truths, Dialogues between Literature and Science

milena — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:40:48 +0000

The event on March 25th will be dedicated to Umberto Eco and in particular to his famous book “Foucault’s Pendulum”, published in 1988. The title of the book refers to the pendulum, the object of the experiment by the French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, which demonstrates the movement of the earth.

For the purposes of the event, the book will provide the starting point to discuss, in a broader sense, modern information systems, focusing on some of their peculiar characteristics and malfunctions.

The key concept of the event, from which the dialogue will begin, will be “truth”, which in various forms has been a dear theme to Umberto Eco; moreover, the theme of truth is also a useful metaphorical key to understand some of the phenomena that characterize our information systems and many of the pathologies that afflict them.

Together with Emanuele Brugnoli and D. Ruggiero Lo Sardo, researchers in the field of Infosphere, other guests will participate into the dialogue: Antonio Perri, former student of Umberto Eco and currently a professor of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics of interactions at the University of Suor Orsola Benincasa, along with journalist Filippo Santelli, correspondent for the Economy section of La Repubblica and winner of the 2021 Tutino Journalist Award for his reports from China, where he covered, among other things, the democracy protests in Hong Kong and the development of the coronavirus epidemic.
The event will be moderated by Manuela Cherubini, director, actress, and expert in the relationship between art and science.

The event is open to public through the registration at this link. Entrance from Piazza del Viminale 1, Rome.