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Digital encounters with biodiversity
MEET | Digital Culture Center
Viale Vittorio Veneto, 2, 20124 Milano
25.02 — 9.03.2025
Opening 25 February 18:00
Digital technologies increasingly mediate the relationships between humans and non-humans, creating new contact zones where different species interact. Online, animals and plants are captured in photographs, quantified, tagged with hashtags, passionately commented on and discussed, shared, and even put up for sale. These digital spaces foster complex dynamics: in some cases, they exacerbate power imbalances and accelerate extractive practices toward the non-human world, while in others, they open unexpected spaces for care and attention. Behind every conversation about a plant or animal, there are often deep reflections on our relationship with nature.
Using the concept of biodiversity as its field of investigation, the exhibition explores the role of digital technologies in promoting new forms of coexistence with the non-human world. Eight works, assembling textual and visual fragments from the web, offer an original perspective on the material conditions and symbolic elements that characterize digital interactions between humans and non-humans.
The exhibition, promoted by the National Biodiversity Future Center, is part of research conducted at Politecnico di Milano. Over 50 students from the Communication Design Master, coordinated by DensityDesign Lab, contributed to the project.
Teachers
Arianna Bellantuono, Andrea Benedetti, Ángeles Briones, Anna Cattaneo, Gabriele Colombo, Alessandra Facchin, Michele Mauri, Salvatore Zingale
Coordinators National Future Biodiversity Center
Massimo Labra, Università degli Studi di Milano‑Bicocca
Andrea Galimberti, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Maria Chiara Pastore, Politecnico di Milano
Visual identity
Bianca Bauer, Benedetta Riccio
Web design and development
Andrea Benedetti, Anna Cattaneo
Authors
Davide Agostinelli, Balzhan Amangeldi, Miguel Ernesto Amaya Uchamocha, Petra Bachiorrini, Maryam Badiei, Sara Barzaghi, Beatrice Giorgia Bosco Adhara, Diletta Catti, Benedetta Crouch, Alice D'Aiuto, Margherita De Alessandri, Ana Isabel De Jesus Loreto, Alice Dezio, Martina Esposito, Laura Falanga Peri, Roberta Florian, Marta Gaggi, Federico Gajo, Eleonora Galliani, Giacomo Garetto, Alessandro Geranzani, Giada Germanò, Giulia Gnessi, Giulia Grassi, Ming Hu, Enrico Isidori, Veronica Leoni, Zimu Li, Giulia Macchini, Davide Monti, Nausicaa Naibo, Alessandra Palombelli, Roberta Parisi, Fabio Pennone, Letizia Percuoco, Lucija Pezer, Enguang Piao, Alice Polerà, Giulia Polimeno, Sara Pugliano, Anita Maria Ruggiu , Francesco Scarfone, Emanuel Simionato, Saumya Singh, Sara Stojanovic, Beatrice Tronconi, Costanza Turi, Ilaria Urgesi, Nayid Valeria Vidal Elguera, Yingying Zheng
MEET Digital Culture Center
Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, 20124 Milano
Designed as a social-oriented institution, MEET collects, promotes and shares creative ideas and innovative projects to reduce the digital cultural divide and guarantee an increasingly more active participation with an approach centred on meeting and inclusion.
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