What might the Tuscany of the future look like?
The conception of a snapshot story of tomorrow's Region was entrusted to Midjourney, an artificial intelligence programme capable of generating images from textual input.
This creative methodology was chosen with the precise intention of limiting the incidence of human arbitrariness, between bias and culture, in the imagination of the distant future of Tuscany.
This methodology of creative work was chosen with the precise intention of limiting as much as possible the incidence of human arbitrariness, between bias and culture, in imagining the distant future of Tuscany.
Midjourney has collected and processed a selection of scientific stimuli that emerged from the round tables in which the members of the Scientific Committee participated, which had previously been cross-referenced with the more macroscopic opinion orientations that emerged from the first results of the Toscana 2050 listening campaign: an evident optimism, full of hope, but which clearly identifies the priority of some themes, such as the environment and health, over others.
This set of elements, entrusted to the computational power of artificial intelligence, has made it possible to generate, literally, glimpses of a kind of new Tuscan cosmogony characterised by three great recurrences:
- The new attractiveness of smaller towns for a population that no longer looks solely or above all to the large metropolitan areas, but populates Smart Small Towns, smaller towns that are well connected to the rest of the inhabited territory.
- The interconnection of the human being with power and information networks, from the spread of telemedicine to a mature negotiation of the relationship with one's own identity in the metaverse.
- The reconciliation with the environment, in a more conscious balance linking built space and nature, between renewable energies, sustainable mobility, shrewd water management.
The interconnection of the human being with the power and information networks, from the spread of telemedicine to a mature negotiation of the relationship with one's own identity in the metaverse.
The interconnection of the human being with the metaverse.
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From the synthesis of so many images, the tool was finally asked to propose a battery of elaborates that could be used, to all intents and purposes, for the formalisation of a logo for the Toscana 2050 project.
But how will our region change? We cannot say yet, but it is thanks to artificial intelligence that we can now try to project ourselves forward, imagining the most desirable scenarios.
Watch the video and discover how Midjourney paints the Tuscany of the future.
How do you imagine the Tuscany of the future?
It is precisely in difficult times that we must push ourselves to look far ahead. To challenge the present. To set ourselves extraordinary goals. Tuscany, by bringing together the forces of citizens, institutions, social and economic actors, can help mark the path to a new civilisation.
You can start by telling us how you imagine Tuscany in 2050 and how you would like it to be, by filling in a simple questionnaire.