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Through a series of phygital<\/em> experiences\u2014hybrid spaces that intertwine the real and the digital\u2014we explore, together with artist Chiara Masiero Sgrinzatto<\/a><\/strong>, the Myth Cities<\/em>. Using the medium of the panorama, we observe and analyze these places as living laboratories in constant evolution, capable of transcending the barriers of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A collection of hand-made drawings meets digital technologies<\/strong>\u2026 QR codes, NFC\/RFID tags, AI. The human eye joins with the machine\u2019s gaze to see more clearly and to understand more deeply. Inside the large panorama, the experience unfolds as an interactive narrative, made of layers and connections to be explored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visitor is guided into the construction of myth: the 360\u00b0 panoramas become bridges between memory, myth, and imagination<\/strong>, crossing generations and different languages. Cities emerge not only as shapes and organizations in space, but as emotional and cognitive landscapes that live within us. Myth Cities<\/em> operate on multiple symbolic levels – physical, narrative, perceptual – becoming living devices of myth-making in global culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AUKLAND, Nuova Zelanda \/\/ Nov-Dic 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The DEMO See the Invisible<\/em><\/strong> exhibition is coming to New Zealand for the GDI 2025 Green + Digital + Intelligent Built Environments<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> conference. Together with the M-Cube Foundation<\/strong>, we will present the paper See the Invisible: How Generative AI Can Support Panorama Artists to Represent Spaces in a Deeper Way, While Understanding More About \u201cEternal Cities\u201d<\/em>, and we will hold the professional workshop Draw the Invisible<\/em><\/strong> on phygital panoramic environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GDI 2025 Green + Digital + Intelligent Built Environments<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

See the Invisible. How generative-AI can support panoramas artists to represent spaces in a deeper way, while understanding more about \u201cEternal cities\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Today, panoramas\u2019 artists are experimenting solutions for drawing by using generative AI. The International Panorama Council (IPC) also counts on researchers and scholars who are also investigating and supporting the advancement in the sector. This paper is based on the See the Invisible<\/em> research, carried on by Fondazione M-Cube (FMC) and the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) within THE NGI ENRICHERS TRANSATLANTIC program (2024-2025). 

During the research, we used specific content to train and improve the performance of the AI in complementing humans when drawing panoramas. Research content concerns cities that in our world and across History, have acquired a powerful mythological allure, becoming \u201ceternal cities\u201d. In these cities, there are \u201cfacts and events\u201d that cannot be seen through human naked eyes, but have the potential to reveal places and routes in a different way compared to how physical senses perceive them. The AI was in charge of generating that specific intangible layer in an equirectangular format.

This paper explores the two main approaches adopted in our research process:
(1) hand-made equirectangular drawing<\/strong>: identification of specific places in the city (still visible today) – on site drawing; archive investigation to collect historical materials related to places (not visible anymore today) and qualitative interviews to a cross-generational sample in the USA and Italy with respect to the perception of the myth and its value for people – reconstruction drawing; post-production process; perspectives\u2019 variation process (e.g. different projections and views about the same place).
(2) AI-generated drawing<\/strong>: the AI has been responsible for drawing the \u201cinvisible\u201d layer of Mythology, where the magic took shape in the mind of the artists and designers. To do that the algorithm has been trained with available datasets; knowledge from researchers, artists, curators; knowledge about objects from thematic communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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