TS4.0 at Focus Live
At the “festival of knowledge,” to be held in Milan Nov. 2-5, there will also be TS4.0 projects dedicated to virtual reality studies.
After the success of the “Notte della Ricerca” held on Sept. 29, the TrentinoSalute4.0 team is moving from Trento‘s MUSE to the “Leonardo da Vinci” National Museum of Science and Technology. Three days of events, debates, scientific talks and demo sessions that will bring people of all ages to experience research once more.
Two projects will be featured at the TS4.0 booth set up on the -1 floor of the Museum: the first involves play therapy for children with autism and the second an experiment with a group of elderly people from a nursing home who tried wearing a 3D visor and exploring environments customized to their preferences.
The question that research in this area attempts to answer is: can technologies improve the emotional state and help older people with impaired cognitive functioning in daily activities? Can the relational and emotional skills of children with neurodevelopmental disorders also be improved? Thanks to Virtual Reality and the use of new digital tools at Trento’s Fondazione Bruno Kessler, with TS4.0, we are experimenting with psychosocial activities and interventions aimed at rehabilitating cognitive abilities and promoting people’s mental well-being.
Come and try our viewers!
(hereafter FOCUS LIVE 2023 launch press release)
FOCUS LIVE – VISIONS”: FROM NOVEMBER 3 TO 5, THE “FOCUS” KNOWLEDGE FESTIVAL S BACK WITH NEW FORMATS AND MANY NEW FEATURES AT THE LEONARDO DA VINCI NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM IN MILAN
Holograms, artificial intelligence, robotic challenges, science shows, talks, debates, and a packed kids area: lots of free events by reservation
Registration open at www.focuslive.it
Segrate, Oct. 17, 2023 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence in science and in everyday life, robotic zoos, time travel in Virtual Reality, and even science-themed escape rooms, in-depth discussions on medicine, sustainability and unprecedented points of view: this is Visioni, the theme that will be explored and experienced at Focus Live 2023, scheduled from Nov. 3 to 5 at the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.
The Knowledge festival conceived and organized by Focus – the Mondadori Group magazine edited by Raffaele Leone as well as the most widely read monthly magazine in Italy by technology, science, sustainability and innovation enthusiasts and onlookers – reaches its sixth edition this year and offers once more its successful format that, in 2022, attracted and won over more than 15 thousand in-person visitors and obtained more than 250 thousand interactions on social media.
“Having reached the sixth edition, I can say that this knowledge festival is more and more Focus and more and more Live,” says editor Raffaele Leone. “More and more Focus because the spirit is that of the magazine: to increase knowledge by stimulating curiosity and fun. More and more Live because we are engaging in the search for formats and events that are not just a live meeting with scientists or popularizers but in which we experiment with all available technologies (augmented reality, viewers, samples of metaverse) to ‘immerse’ ourselves in knowledge. If to this we add those contaminations that we so much like between music, theater and science, there comes full circle.”
Focus Live, open to the public and completely free (reservation required), for the past six years has aimed to illustrate with popular language the horizons of human knowledge: from physics to medicine, from biology to genetics, from environmental defense to technology to digital communication. Innovation, creativity and curiosity will be the guidelines of this special edition, which provides more than a thousand square meters available to visitors, with 40 installations, five themed areas and an amazing variety of meetings, talks, workshops, performances, in the company of scientists, popularizers and creators of national and international standing.
Once again this year Festival del Sapere comes to life at the National Museum of Science and Technology, the largest science and technology museum in Italy, a bridge between the past and future of scientific culture for 70 years. In this edition, the public will be able to range between artificial intelligence, interactive digital art installations and Virtual Reality.
Among the protagonists of Focus Live 2023 will be, among others: navigator Giovanni Soldini, who will speak in the form of a hologram; Ilaria Capua, who will bring her show on circular health together with actress Antonella Attili; immunologist Alberto Mantovani; physicist Alessandro Vespignani; botanist Stefano Mancuso, who will engage in a performance straddling science and music with an ensemble from the Milan Symphony Orchestra; CNR President Maria Chiara Carrozza, philosopher Luciano Floridi who is one of the leading experts on artificial intelligence, popularizers such as Barbara Gallavotti, Silvia Moroni (parlasostenibile), Massimo Temporelli, TikTok star professor Vincenzo Schettini, explorer, mental coach and environmental popularizer Alex Bellini, and TV host and author Carlo Conti, who will receive the Telegatto from Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni editor Aldo Vitali.
Also on stage will be astronauts such as Roberto Vittori, sportsmen such as Mike Maric, former world champion in freediving, and former Milan and national team coach Arrigo Sacchi, who will talk about technology and artificial intelligence in soccer.
Closing the packed three-day schedule will be evolutionary scientist and popularizer Telmo Pievani and actor Marco Paolini, in a science show dedicated to Charles Darwin, one of the most visionary scientists in history.
What’s new
There are many new features at this edition, starting with new formats on stage: from Ted with VR experiences to quizzes with the audience-for example, Stefano Bartezzaghi will involve the audience in a space-themed crossword puzzle – to special events and exclusive theater or music performances. The exhibit area will enclose five large themed islands, Technology, Sustainability, Science, Space, and Health curated by scientific or publishing partners that will alternate with sponsor activities: visitors will have the chance to attend interactive workshops, as well as interface with robots and bots powered by Artificial Intelligence, experience the thrill of simulators for time and space travel, and experience science-themed escape rooms and games. Cracking Art works will enliven the Museum’s outdoor spaces, marking the 30th anniversary of the art movement that has always linked its creations to the topics of the relationship between nature and artifice, sustainability and the environment. More than 200 square meters will, finally, be dedicated to the Kids area, with experiments, workshops, meetings and games curated by Focus Junior to bring younger children closer to S.T.E.A.M. subjects.
Reservations for the events can be made at www.focuslive.it. There will be two shifts: morning (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and afternoon (2 p.m. to 8 p.m.). Those who wish to stay all day can book tickets for both half days.
