Perceptions: crossing the Retro-Futurism

Highlights from Ancona

April 9 was the inaugural date of THE AFAM ROADSHOW, which saw GTA partners and many professionals from the field of Cultural Heritage and beyond gather at the Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona for an intense and inspiring day themed “Perceptions – Retro-Futurism.”

The Mole Vanvitelliana and the Sala Polveri, thanks to the patronage of the Municipality of Ancona and the support of Ancona Servizi, have become spaces for experimentation and discussion among artists, researchers and designers, teachers and students, cultural operators and local institutions. A place where cultural heritage meets digital innovation, creating a unique experience.

But not only that. The Omero State Tactile Museum also took part in this intense exchange and confrontation: the conference room, surrounded by “to touch” busts and capitals, and the Design room, scattered with design objects, precisely, the fruit of Italian ingenuity from the 1970s to the present, were for a few hours a collector of voices, of narratives about creativity, technology and the man-machine relationship.

Various cities on the Adriatic coast, as well as villages and towns in the Marche hinterland, brought their voices, through experts and professionals in the field to Ancona, in order to establish new project relationships, strengthen already active understandings, and confront sometimes frontier visions, thanks to contributions and activities related to Spain, the Netherlands, India and France.

A concrete and close contamination, under the banner not only of intellectual and theoretical research, but also practical and tangible, dealing with uncomfortable topics, “emergencies” in the sector, leading issues and desires still in the drawer by the scientific community and economic operators active in the national Cultural Heritage sector.

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