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Critical review of studies on the representation of architecture and use of the image in science and art

Issue 17 | January – June 2026

Artificial Exaptation
Edited by Fabrizio Gay

CONTENTS

Edoardo Dotto, Francesco Maggio

Editorial. An ‘Other’ Intelligence

Fabrizio Gay

Techno-aesthetic Exaptation: A Letter on Drawing from 2051

Irene Cazzaro

Exaptation as a Criterion for Modelling Complex Ecosystems. The Case of the Venice Lagoon

Michela Rossi, Sara Conte, Cecilia Santacroce, Giorgio Buratti

Italo Calvino’s Algorithms in Visualizing the DNA of Urban Complexity

Cesare Battelli

From Traces to the Mythopoietic Co-Optation of AI

Angela Cicala

Text to Form: Artificial Exaptation in Algorithmic Design

Paola Raffa

Ordered Fragments. From Forms to Form: A Conversation with Demetrio Di Grado

Scientific Review

Exaptation as a logic of resignification, image synthetically generated by Le Chat (Mistral AI), 2026. © Fabrizio Gay Charles Darwin in a natural history museum of artefacts, surrounded by genealogies of technical artefacts in evolutionary order, under Steampunk chandeliers; the image offers a visual interpretation of the concept of artificial exaptation, where objects and tools are reused and given new meaning in new functional contexts.
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