The New Human Creative Hackathon
ART+TECH Festival — 06-07.MAR.2026 — MILAN
A Playground where Artists and Technologists co-create the Future(s). This creative hackathon is an exploration of The New Human shaping the 2026 ART+TECH Festival.
The World You’re Entering
The Reef Society — a world built from our traces.
Every click and gesture layers into a living system that keeps reshaping itself.
Something new is emerging.
Welcome to The New Human.
What Is The New Human?
Three currents shape who we are becoming:
Mind — shared, atmospheric cognition
Body — hybrid, augmented identities
Society — a digital nervous system we all inhabit
Together, they form the next chapter of human creativity.
A Choice of Futures
Every reef holds shadow and possibility.
Black Mirror shows what breaks.
White Mirror shows what we can build.
CODAME chooses the White Mirror —
futures shaped by imagination, care, and collaboration.
The Archetypes
Four creative forces shape our teams:
The Alchemist — makes ideas real
The Storyworld Architect — shapes meaning
The Systems Imagineer — designs consequences
The Embodied Explorer — brings human sensitivity
Find yourself in one.
Together, they form powerful world-building teams.
The Hackathon Journey
Pre — inspiration and onboarding
Festival — 12 hours of collaborative creation
Post — showcase and pathways toward Milan Design Week 2026 and beyond
Download the Field Guide
Begin imagining the future.
Download The New Human Field Guide.
Invitation
The future is alive, messy, growing — and you belong inside it.
Join the CODAME Creative Hackathon: The New Human.
The Hackathon is part of the:ART+TECH Festival [2026]
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The New Human is our theme and exploration for the ART+TECH Festival in 2026
Learn more about The New Human
The hackathon is the premiere activation of The New Human. Discover more about the theme: We are not born new. We grow from fragments…
Be part of ART+TECH Festival (2026) Exploring The New Human. Let’s design the future — playfully, together. 👉 Join as a volunteer
Volunteers bring the event to life — supporting teams, guiding flow, and shaping the experience from the inside.
Be part of the community leading us into
Milano Art Week and Milano Design Week 2026,
and future exhibitions, toolkits, and residencies around the world.
Love this framework of White Mirror vs Black Mirror. The archtype categorization feels spot-on because I've seen similiar dynamics play out at hackathons where people naturally gravitate toward either systems-level thinking or embodied experince but rarely bridge the two. Choosing optimism as the starting point instead of dystopia actually unlocks way more creative solutions.