Mattia Thibault: Exploring borders: from speculative to interreal translations
Translation is a key semiotic and cultural mechanism, capable to offer a focused lens and powerful metaphor to look into many aspects of the world. In this presentation we will look at two: translation as a means to speculate about possible futures, and as a metaphor to understand the relations between reality and virtuality.
Meet the Speaker
Mattia Thibault, Professor, translation in creative industries, Tampere University
Dr Mattia Thibault is a Professor in Translation in the Creative Industries at Tampere University and has a PhD in Semiotics and Media (Turin University). His research interests include semiotics and translation, extended realities, speculative research, and playfulness in the built environment (real and digital). He is the leader of the InterReality Research Group which focuses on the relations between different “virtual” spaces (both as in ”digital” or ”possible”) and their connections with the “real” world.
He is PI of the projects InterReal (ERC-StG), NEXR (Business Finland Co-Research) and Mobility Mindshift (funded by Net Zero Cities, EU).
Photo: Jonne Renvall, Tampere University
