On the occasion of Milan Design Week, ATI Project, in collaboration with Gabriele Giussani, presents /KENOSIS: Depletion as a Generative Act. The event will take place on April 23rd at Superstudio Village, as part of the pop-up edition of the Graphic Days festival—curated by Print Club Torino, Quattrolinee, and Plug, in partnership with Materie Unite. Graphic Days is an international festival promoting the cultural value of visual communication, an annual landmark event held in Turin since 2016.
The Truth of Form through Subtraction
In the previous edition of Fuorisalone, we introduced METANOIA, which shifted the mental paradigm by embracing transformation through AI. /KENOSIS takes the next step: stripping away the self to make room for the essential. Not adding, but liberating. Void not as absence, but as a generative condition.
The term kenosis signifies the act of emptying form to reveal its living structure. The design process does not proceed by addition, but by subtraction: removing what bears no load, what is not structural, what is superfluous—until only the essence already contained within the matter remains.
In this context, Artificial Intelligence acts as a tool of revelation rather than mere generation. It all begins with an algorithm: the generative process is not a digital invention, but a rigorous translation of nature. The algorithm doesn’t invent complexity—it reads the form hidden within things and brings it to light, identifying and eliminating, cycle after cycle, everything that is redundant. Through this methodical subtraction, a form emerges that is truer than the original: the hidden language of matter, finally made visible.
The void becomes the generative condition. The structure that remains is the most vital.
The Journey | April 23rd
The event translates theoretical inquiry into subtraction into a physical and sonic experience, unfolding in two distinct phases:
The Talks (2:30 PM – 5:00 PM): The Algorithm as the Universal Language of Matter.
Two streaming sessions explore how AI is redefining architectural design, materials, and creative processes. Topics range from urban regeneration as an act of “intelligent subtraction” to bio-design as an induced form, extending to the speculative materials that AI allows us to envision before they even exist. The first talk facilitates a dialogue between architectural firms, academic research—with the participation of the Politecnico di Milano—and technological innovation. The second dives into expressive languages: photography, fashion, video, and sound as fields where AI rewrites the creative process. When author and algorithm meet, where are the limits? What emerges that neither could have imagined alone?
AI Streaming Performance (6:00 PM – 11:00 PM): After the talks, the space transforms. Live-streamed AI projections generate real-time imagery based on the KENOSIS cycle—urban regeneration, bio-design, matter. Visitors, detected by spatial scanning, unwittingly become part of the system: every presence acts as a generative parameter that modifies the projected visuals. At specific intervals, the underlying process becomes visible—revealing wireframes, vector fields, and Voronoi cells—making the algorithmic logic legible even to a non-technical audience. In the evening, a DJ set by Orion Records, synchronized with audio-reactive projections in four acts, carries the cycle into sound: algorithmic subtraction down to the skeletal structure. The audience ceases to be mere spectators. The process does not display results; it displays itself in the midst of transformation.
Info and Credits
Venue: Superstudio Village, Via Michele Pericle Negrotto, 59, Milan
Date: April 23rd, 2026
Partner: Gabriele Giussani
Curated by: Graphic Days, Materie Unite
Designers: ATI Project R&D team | Gabriele Fichera, Mattia Giannetti, Giacomo Marani, Luca Ofria, Erica Scribano