The workshop began with a hands-on phase, involving drawing and collage to design hybrid creatures, followed by the use of Artificial Intelligence as a speculative tool: not to produce images, but to analyse symbols and generate texts and new connections of meaning. The bestiary was thus transformed into a collective ecosystem, presented in an exhibition held on the company\u2019s premises at the end of the day.
\nBarely Imaginary Beings is a large tent composed of thousands of tiles that forms a permanent symbolic bestiary, a synthesis of the creativity that emerged during the workshop.
\nThe title of the work references Caspar Henderson\u2019s book The Book of Barely Imagined Beings and evokes a sense of wonder at what in nature defies understanding. Whilst Henderson explores the biodiversity of our ecosystem, the workshop invited participants to investigate a \u2018symbolic biodiversity\u2019, using Artificial Intelligence not as an end in itself, but as a critical tool to expand expressive possibilities.<\/p>\n
The programme alternated between theoretical and practical sessions, introduced by a talk open to all company staff, delivered by Numero Cromatico and Marcello Smarrelli on the collective\u2019s research themes. Of particular note was the lecture by Alessandro Delpriori, a lecturer at the University of Camerino, dedicated to iconology and medieval bestiaries as pedagogical and moral tools, fundamental to understanding the relationship between Human Beings, Nature and Knowledge. Starting from the medieval tradition of filigree and bestiaries \u2014 tools capable of transforming the sign into a vessel of values and narratives \u2014 the participants constructed a personal and shared symbolic imagery, giving life to a bestiary of \u2018barely imaginable beings\u2019.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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