Date: March 27, 2026 Time: To be updated (all-day) Venue: Sala Olona, National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, Via Olona 6/bis, Milan

This one-day, in-person workshop examines AI as a geographical phenomenon that presents distinct yet interrelated concerns contingent on the vantage point from which it is approached: from the algorithmic operations that mediate judgement and decision-making, the urban infrastructures organising and governing everyday life, to the planetary impacts on environmental and geopolitical conditions. The workshop invites collective inquiry into the transversal logics that bind these scales, asking how AI generates new spatial formations entangled within shifting regimes of power, governance, and calculation — formations that demand a geographic lens for deeper interrogation and critique.

Confirmed speakers

• Vladan Joler (University of Novi Sad)
• Gillian Rose (University of Oxford)
• Antonello Romano (University of Pisa)

Scientific Committee

• Fabio Iapaolo (Politecnico di Milano)
• Simona Casonato (Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci)
• Darío Negueruela del Castillo (University of Zurich)
• Ludovico Rella (Durham University)

Organisers
The workshop is co-organised by META in collaboration with the Digital Visual Studies (DVS) project (Max Planck Society and the University of Zurich), the Algorithmic Societies (ALGOSOC) research group (Durham University), and the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci.