On 14 October 2025, Open AANT hosted Carlo Infante for an event dedicated to Performing Media for Territorial Innovation.
A changemaker and expert in Performing Media, Infante brought to the Academy a reflection on immersive and interactive languages as tools for cultural and social transformation. The focus of the meeting was the relationship between media, territories, and communities. Starting from hybrid, phygital, and participatory practices, the discussion showed how communication processes can activate new forms of audience engagement and community empowerment. The meeting was not only about technologies, but about their situated use: media as devices capable of reading places, crossing them, and reactivating their memory.
Infante thus opened up for students a perspective in which territorial innovation also means cultural design and collective responsibility. The exchange highlighted the value of interactive narratives in building relationships between people, spaces, and shared stories. The open format of the event encouraged reflection on how media can move beyond the screen and act within public space. In the account published after the meeting, AANT specifically emphasised the ability of Performing Media to move across communities and reactivate the memory of places.
What emerged was a vision of media not as a simple technical support, but as a cultural, civic, and design practice.
