The topic of BRIDGING DIALOGUES 2024 was “Social regeneration in hyper-digital organisational contexts”.
Imagine a world where technologies enhance your skills, instead of replacing them, and human relationships are at the core of the work, not an ancillary element.
Bridging Dialogues is the annual experiential event organised by Peoplerise and Arsenalia, now in its third edition. It brings together international researchers and business leaders each year to explore together human and organisational development within companies.
The question that guided us through this nourishing and enriching day together was:
How can we be digitally evolved
without being humanly weakened?
Bridging Dialogues 2024 kicks off!
During our morning together, we explored two particularly evocative interventions. With Peter Merry, in “Leading from the Field”, we explored how our consciousness can influence the world around us. What are the implications of this awareness for leadership and the architecture of the systems we lead?
Mustapha El Moussaoui, on the other hand, in “Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, and Philosophy of Space“, took us into the world of architecture. The question that emerged, and which can also be adapted to different fields, is the following.
“How can the integration of AI in architectural processes transform architectural education, promoting a balance between technical expertise and humanistic values, to create spaces that respond to social and existential needs?”
Bridging Dialogues 2024 interactive workshops
The day at Bridging Dialogues 2024 followed with an afternoon full of reflections, exchanges of opinion, generative dialogues and artistic practices.
Here are the 6 workshops that accompanied us in our exploration of new human and organisational development trends within companies, focusing on the impact of AI and of the integration of digital technologies on the world of work and beyond!
- “Bridging the gap in corporate learning: dialogues from the future” | Pierluigi Delgiudice, Raluca Mitran, Daniela Castro, Karina Pastor (Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering team)
- “Can Vedanta teach today’s managers of the digital age what it takes to be a conscious leader?” | Laurent Ledoux
- “Art, Dialogue and Artificial Intelligence” | John Oliver
- “The Perils and Prospects of AI. Cultivating our Collective Intelligence” | Jonathan Reams
- “Art and life in the digital age: exploring artistic & biographical dimensions for creating generative spaces” | Elena Crudo & Flavio Fabiani di Peoplerise
- “Synergizing Structures and Relations: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Accelerating the speed of change” | Annika Klyver & Pia Molander Wistam
Human connections and artificial intelligence support
The prelude to the Bridging Dialogues 2024 event was a “bacaro tour” in Venice. It turned out to be a perfect bridge between the exploration of Venetian heritage and discussions on the future of work.
As participants explored historical monuments, the tour highlighted the importance of human interactions, comparable to the bridges in Venice that connect the city’s islands: essential, resilient and full of stories. These connections, like bridges, are vital in an increasingly digital world. It is through them that the true value of organisations is transmitted.
Artificial intelligence, indeed, played a key role in guiding and optimising the participants’ itinerary, enhancing the overall experience. However, it turned out that it was the intimate and oral knowledge of the Venetians, that local wisdom that cannot be found online, but is passed down from person to person, that made the journey authentic and full of unexpected discoveries.
What do we take home with us? That, despite the accelerating advancement of AI, meaningful human connections must continue to be the beating heart of every community and organisation!
