We Do Not Build the Future Alone
Why CODAME matters to me, and why communities like this matter more than ever.
I believe in CODAME for a simple reason: The future is not built by technology alone. It is built by people. By artists, technologists, designers, musicians, founders, researchers, and by the strange, generous communities that form when those worlds are allowed to collide.
That is what CODAME has always represented to me. Not content. Not branding. Not just events. A real community, one I’d want you to experience for yourself.
A place where experimentation is not an accessory, but the point. Where art and technology are not treated as separate categories, but as parts of the same cultural force.
A place where people can make things before they are easy to explain. And maybe you’ve felt this too, that urge to explore something before it fully makes sense.
I think spaces like this matter more now than ever. Because we are entering a future shaped by AI, automation, platforms, and systems that can scale faster than our ability to ask what they are doing to us, to culture, to meaning, to each other.
In that kind of future, community is not a nice-to-have. It is infrastructure.
We need places where people can gather across disciplines. Where ideas can be tested in public. Where technology is not only optimized, but questioned. Where art is not decoration added at the end, but part of how we think. Where new possibilities can emerge through collaboration, friction, intuition, and play.
Places where you can step in, not just watch from the outside.
That is one of the reasons I believe so deeply in CODAME.
Because CODAME creates the conditions for that to happen. Not by pretending to know the future. But by making space for people, people like you, to imagine it together.
And that is also why I’m excited about what we are opening in Milan.
On April 24, during Design Week, we are bringing The New Human to life, not as a finished answer, but as something I’ve been personally searching for.
And something I’d genuinely love to share with you, in person.
A space where art, technology, and people don’t just coexist, but actually meet. Where you don’t just observe, but feel part of it. Where you can move through it, interact with it, play with it, and see what it gives back.
The New Human begins its journey in Milan, then continues to San Francisco, Berlin, and Shanghai.
Because no single place, no single perspective, is enough to imagine what comes next.
It only starts to make sense when it moves. When it’s shaped by different people, different cultures, different ways of seeing the world.
If you are in Milan, or know someone who should be there, I’d love for you to come experience this with me.
To share a moment. To feel something. To explore. To play. To be part of it, not just around it.
The future does not only arrive.
Sometimes, it gathers
