The New Human - Creative Hackathon - Opening
Igniting the Hackathon: March 6th Online + in person in Milan and San Francisco
Date: March 6th, 2026 - 5 to 8pm (CET) ✦ 8 to 10am (PT)
Location: Milano, San Francisco and Online!
Let’s build the future — Imaging together The New Human in 2036
You’re invited to join us on March 6th for the Creative Hackathon opening — online or in person in Milan or San Francisco.
This is where it begins. Teams form. Ideas collide. Questions surface. Mentors introduce provocations. Projects take their first breath.
The Creative Hackathon is a starting point, not an endpoint. It’s where ideas begin—but it doesn’t mean writing code. For us, a creative hackathon means expressing an idea in your own medium: images, video, sound, performance, sculpture, poetry, installations, or forms that don’t yet have a name. Code is welcome—but not expected.
What matters is the creative use of art and technology, and a connection to The New Human theme.
Some ideas may grow over time into full installations and experiences, shared during Milano Design Week 2026, and later in San Francisco, Shanghai, and other cities around the world.
Who should join
There’s no single way to join the ART+TECH Festival. Creativity doesn’t move in straight lines—and neither do people. You might build, imagine, organize, mentor, or simply explore. Every way of showing up is valid. Every role matters.
Existing Teams
Find that missing piece — a technical hacker, a performance artist, a systems thinker — to complete your vision.
Individual Hackers
Discover emerging projects and contribute your skills to a team aligned with your creative philosophy.
The Curious
Still deciding whether to participate? Come meet the community, see ideas taking shape, and understand how our 24-hour creative hackathon collaboration works.
Program
Spark
We begin in a conversation around how we imagine The New Human ten years from now (2036).
Connect
Connect with a multidisciplinary community spanning Milan, San Francisco, and our wider remote global network. Find your Archetypal missing team member to build the teams for the Hackathon.
Go!
The New Human is created…
We’re excited to explore how you imagine The New Human ten years from now, in 2036, and to begin this journey together.
Have more questions?
So do we — and we’ve gathered what we know so far below.
This festival is a living process, and these answers will evolve as we do.