Liked, trapped, shared.

On February 25, 2025, at 6:30 pm, the inauguration of the exhibition "Liked, Trapped, Shared. Digital Encounters with Biodiversity" will take place at MEET, promoted by the National Biodiversity Future Center. This is part of research conducted at Politecnico di Milano. Over 50 students from the Communication Design Master, coordinated by DensityDesign Lab, contributed to the project.

The exhibition, curated by Massimo Labra and Andrea Galimberti of the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and Maria Chiara Pastore of the Politecnico di Milano, examines the role of the digital in promoting new forms of coexistence with the non-human world, investigating the theme of biodivesity.

Digital technologies increasingly mediate the relationships between humans and non-humans, creating new contact zones where different species interact. Online, animals and plants are captured in photographs, quantified, tagged with hashtags, passionately commented on and discussed, shared, and even put up for sale. These digital spaces foster complex dynamics: in some cases, they exacerbate power imbalances and accelerate extractive practices toward the non-human world, while in others, they open unexpected spaces for care and attention. Behind every conversation about a plant or animal, there are often deep reflections on our relationship with nature.

"Liked, trapped, shared. Digital encounters with biodiversity" hosts eight works, which, by assembling textual and visual fragments from the web, offer an original perspective on the material conditions and symbolic elements that characterize digital interactions between humans and non-humans.

The exhibition can be visited from 25 February to 9 March 2025 at MEET | Digital Culture Centre.

To participate in the opening event, please register at this link.

Faculty: Arianna Bellantuono, Andrea Benedetti, Ángeles Briones, Anna Cattaneo, Gabriele Colombo, Alessandra Facchin, Michele Mauri, Salvatore Zingale

Coordinators NBFC (National Biodiversity Future Center): Massimo Labra, Andrea Galimberti (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), Maria Chiara Pastore (Politecnico di Milano)

Authors: Davide Agostinelli, Balzhan Amangeldi, Miguel Ernesto Amaya Uchamocha, Petra Bachiorrini, Maryam Badiei, Sara Barzaghi, Beatrice Giorgia Bosco Adhara, Diletta Catti, Benedetta Crouch, Alice D'Aiuto, Margherita De Alessandri, Ana Isabel De Jesus Loreto, Alice Dezio, Martina Esposito, Laura Falanga Peri, Roberta Florian, Marta Gaggi, Federico Gajo, Eleonora Galliani, Giacomo Garetto, Alessandro Geranzani, Giada Germanò, Giulia Gnessi, Giulia Grassi, Ming Hu, Enrico Isidori, Veronica Leoni, Zimu Li, Giulia Macchini, Davide Monti, Nausicaa Naibo, Alessandra Palombelli, Roberta Parisi, Fabio Pennone, Letizia Percuoco, Lucija Pezer, Enguang Piao, Alice Polerà, Giulia Polimeno, Sara Pugliano, Anita Maria Ruggiu , Francesco Scarfone, Emanuel Simionato, Saumya Singh, Sara Stojanovic, Beatrice Tronconi, Costanza Turi, Ilaria Urgesi, Nayid Valeria Vidal Elguera, Yingying Zheng

Visual identity: Bianca Bauer, Benedetta Riccio

Web project: Andrea Benedetti, Anna Cattaneo