Future Station. The remaking of Italy.

The exhibit is a journey that starts in the present day and leads into Italy’s future. What it will be and what we want it to be through those ideas that are already out there on the territory and that will become a part of our life in the next ten years, as the future is not illusion, idealism or science fiction, but is made of the many stories, big or small, of those who work every day.

The ideas, prototypes, products and processes that best express Italian creativity and innovation are at the heart of the exhibition. They come from public institutions, private research centres, large companies and individual inventors.

The items are narrated using sophisticated languages such as multimedia, 3-D videos, holograms and augmented reality and are grouped according to areas that have been identified by evaluating the pivots of local and global change in the next ten years: energy, territory protection, waste products, chemistry, textile, mobility, homing, food and health, communication, work, robotics and space.

The staging rebuilds a cutaway of an ideal City of Ideas, where each theme corresponds to an exhibit block composed of connecting cubical elements, which visitors can enter into and exit from. Thus, the narration is fluid and non linear, allowing the visitor to be free to know, experiment, share and therefore to participate actively and creatively to what is not intended to be an authorial piece of work but a work-in-progress, an open and collective construction of what lies ahead in Italy’s future.