In Kalkar, Germany, a nuclear power plant’s cooling tower has been transformed into a “vertical swing” for an amusement park. One flies through the air, the details of the sky and fields of the Rhineland a blur in the background, around and around. In Copenhagen, Denmark, an incinerator that can burn 70 tons of waste every hour produces zero emissions. Its green roof is open for trekking, and skiers slalom down its sides. In the midst of the Baltic Sea, there is a forest whose branches spin in the wind: a wind farm producing renewable energy. These are not utopias. They are the seeds of our future, already firmly rooted in the present. It is just this unbroken line between today and tomorrow that Luca Locatelli, one of the most awarded and published Italian photographers on the international scene, has focused his lens on, exploring the places in which the symbiosis between man, nature and technology work together to develop solutions for the future of humanity. For a very long time, our future has been the territory of utopic visions based on progress. But, while progress has enabled us to overcome many of the problems that have plagued mankind through the centuries and has enabled us to product more food, medicine, energy and raw materials, its success has destabilized the ecological balance of the planet in many ways. It appears that, if it is true, as Yuval Noah Harari claims, that science is moving steadily closer to transforming Homo in Deus, it is precisely on this borderline that Homo risks losing himself. What are the goals at the top of the list of projects for humanity in the 21st century? What are the next steps we can take as a species? The urgency to respond to this question prompted Locatelli to travel on five continents, to visit the laboratories where research scientists promise to satisfy the needs of humanity with their discoveries, in lands in which tradition and mythology merge with advanced technology, all the way to the frontiers in which we test new ways of living and play with our evolution. His personal exhibition, Future Studies: visions from a possible tomorrow – the first exhibition in the SuperNatural cycle, where a number of the keenest photographic eyes on the international scene will succeed one another at Rifugio Digitale – is a selection from the photographer’s long-term project. It is a voyage among the people and places where science and technology are used to find the proper balance between man and the planet he inhabits, in an attempt to reduce our impact and redefine our presence in a more sustainable way. The idea for SuperNatural, imagined as a reflection that cuts across contemporary life touching on our relationship with space as much as the way in which we project ourselves in time, before a horizon that grows ever more uncertain, between epidemics and climate crises, is expressed by Locatelli in photographs and videos that, though firmly anchored in reality, generate the awe of science fiction. On the screens of Rifugio Digitale, the meeting place between art and technology, his pictures translate complex scientific truths into easily grasped images, opening windows onto worlds in which, in Locatelli’s own words, we can “reconnect that broken link between hope and future”, inviting viewers to develop an informed critical opinion and adjust to a change of pace, in search of a new equilibrium.