PRAXI in 60 Years? Why the Question Matters More Than the Answer
PRAXI in 60 Years? Why the Question Matters More Than the Answer
Date of Publication
October 28, 2026
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Sixty years of history can be told by looking back at the milestones achieved, the people who made them possible, and the defining moments along the way. But on October 17, in Milan, as more than 350 PRAXI colleagues gathered to celebrate, we chose to look ahead instead. We asked ourselves what PRAXI might look like, and where it might be, 60 years from now.
Four distinct perspectives helped us explore that question. At Fast Forward: The Future That Awaits Us, Christian Greco, Director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin; Alberto Mattiello, business futurist and artificial intelligence expert; Maria Vittoria Baravelli, curator of art and photography exhibitions; and Emilio Cozzi, journalist and author specializing in the space economy, shared their views. The discussion was moderated by Marta Meli, Managing Editor at Sky TG24.
None of them could offer a definitive answer. And perhaps that was precisely the point: when looking that far into the future, questions matter more than predictions. Drawing on different disciplines and experiences, the speakers offered insights with direct relevance to our own future.
Four Perspectives on the Future
Thousands of years ago, in ancient Egypt, people had messages carved into stone stelae for future generations: “O people living on earth, people who will live in times to come… remember my name.”
They could not know who would read those words, or when. Yet they were writing for people they would never meet. Through this image, Christian Greco took us back to the origins of writing: leaving a mark also means entrusting it to those who come after us.
Alberto Mattiello approached the question through the lens of artificial intelligence. With innovation moving so rapidly that even the next few years are difficult to anticipate, imagining the world of 2086 becomes an almost impossible exercise. Emilio Cozzi reached a similar conclusion from the perspective of space exploration: beyond a certain horizon, prediction inevitably gives way to uncertainty.
Maria Vittoria Baravelli offered a different perspective. She reflected on the Latin roots of the Italian word ricordare (to remember), connecting remembrance with the idea of bringing something back to the heart. When asked what she imagined 60 years from now, her answer was a photograph of people. Because whatever the future holds, it is people who give meaning to what we build and what we leave behind.
Four different perspectives, all shifting the focus from predicting the future to taking responsibility for what we do today.
What We Build Today
Many of the people who will write the next chapters of PRAXI’s history have yet to join us. Yet the choices we make today will help shape what they find.
Mara Crosetto, Vice President of PRAXI, highlighted a principle that captures this approach: solutions become outdated as the circumstances that produced them change. What endures is the ability to identify the challenges that matter, understand them, and continually find new ways to address them.
We cannot know which technologies we will use or which skills we will need 60 years from now. But we can continue to decide which challenges are worth addressing and what value we want to help create.
That same spirit of openness carried through to A World of Connections, the Convention’s second panel discussion, which brought together perspectives from the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, India, and China.
For PRAXI, being international is about more than geographical reach. In a world where distances are shrinking and connections are multiplying, it means bringing together different markets, cultures, and experiences, sharing expertise, and learning from different ways of understanding and responding to change.
This is another way in which a story that began in Italy 60 years ago continues to evolve.
