Biennale Tecnologia
Politecnico di Torino presents, in synergy with local players, a permanent biennial event dedicated to technology’s decisive impact on each aspect of human life – from health to environment, from interpersonal relationships to democracy: Biennale Tecnologia
Biennale Tecnologia alternates with Biennale Democrazia – an event that promotes a culture of democracy that should be translated into democratic practice – in order to complete and deepen such reflection by looking wider to the multiple aspects of technology, a human-created instrument that, after all, significantly affects everyone’s life.
Biennale Tecnologia is a wide-ranging event that offers to the citizenry an articulated, inclusive and accessible reflection on the increasingly relevant issue of the relationship between technology and society, starting from the most recent technological innovations, but also recalling the history of Italian technological roots, hoping that past and present great results will be inspirational for the future. The discussions focus on the environmental, ethical, social, economic and geopolitical implications of major technological issues such as artificial intelligence, energy, transports and telecommunications. More generally, the question is: “how do we manage technology in the community’s interest?”.
The program includes lessons, debates, workshops and exhibits with international guests, with a strongly interdisciplinary approach, enriched by the languages of fiction, cinema, music and figurative arts. Laboratories and learning activities, some of whom specifically designed for primary and secondary schools, are included.
List of events available in foreign languages
Friday, April 19th
English
- Dati che discriminano: come gli algoritmi trasformano le relazioni sociali
- Umani ibridi. Come la tecnologia cambia il nostro corpo
- Per un digitale davvero globale
- Costruire il futuro: l’Intelligenza Artificiale dalla teoria alla pratica
- Smart cities, piattaforme e giustizia sociale
- Mind the gap: tecnologie tradizionali alla frontiera della modernità
- Architetture per la coesione sociale, tra progettazione e dialogo interreligioso
- La nuova lingua del costruire
Saturday, April 20th
English
- Giappone 5.0: andata e ritorno tra società e industria
- Riprendiamoci Internet!
- Il computer cinese e il futuro della scrittura
- Come un chiodo ha costruito il mondo
French
Spanish
Sunday, April 21st
English
- Come sfuggire al “Merdocene” e costruire un Internet migliore
- Un ombrello solare nello spazio contro il cambiamento climatico
- Nuove narrazioni per una nuova tecnologia
- Le utopie fatte in casa
- Oltre l’Occidente: distopie e nuove tecnologie
- Filosofie del design a confronto
- Utopie realizzabili
French
Past editions
- Discover here the Biennale second edition (November 10-13, 2022)
- Discover here the Biennale first edition (November 12-15, 2020)
- Biennale Tecnologia follows the successful organization of the Festival della Tecnologia, held by the Politecnico di Torino in 2019 (November 7-10) to celebrate the 160th anniversary of its foundation.