It has been an incredible edition. And we do not say this as a ritual closing formula at the end of the Festival. ORLANDO welcomed an unexpected number of new people: the programmes, the encounters, the places we moved through, and the relationships that emerged gradually traced, day after day, a shared affective and political geography. So thank you to everyone who participated in, shared, moved through, and made ORLANDO possible.

Digital platforms shape our desires, our relationships, even our affective needs — often without us even noticing. The seminar-workshop with Ippolita, promoted by GAMeC, offers a journey into digital self-defence as hacker pedagogy: learning to recognise the mechanisms that condition us, in order to imagine post-human relationships founded on reciprocity rather than exploitation.

A festival that is increasingly accessible!