SCHOOL OF VISION

The world’s first research centre dedicated to the science and culture of visionary thinking

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WHAT WE DO

We study and teach the language of vision to shape new ways of seeing, creating, and transforming reality.

The School of Vision is Spazio Taverna’s platform for research and education, dedicated to unlocking the transformative power of visionary thinking.

Through culture, science, and industry, we explore how imagination can spark innovation, drive transformation, and shape new ways of inhabiting reality.

Based in Rome, blueprint of contemporary society, we ground our vision in history while projecting it boldly toward the future.

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The Circle is a 30-day programme for established professionals who are successful at what they do, but feel their own direction has become less visible. Through guided sessions online and in Rome, participants reconnect with what is distinctly theirs and turn it into a clear, tangible proposition.

Upcoming

The Circle
February - March 2027

A thirty-day programme for established professionals.

Tomás Saraceno, Argentinian artist and visionary thinker, explores the intersection of art, ecology and science through Aerocene, a long-term project reimagining the future of mobility through solar-powered flight, atmospheric currents, and collective practice, in collaboration with scientists from MIT and NASA.

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Art Anticipates the Future
Ep. 1 Tomás Saraceno

Video Interviews

Mattia Voltaggio, Program Management Officer of ROAD – Rome Advanced District and Head of Joule, reflects on the Gazometro area as a strategic laboratory where innovation, research, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urban transformation converge, positioning Rome as a platform for technological experimentation and future-oriented development.

Online

VISION OF ROMA - Ep.4 ROAD

Video Interviews

Research

Art Anticipate the Future

A series exploring how contemporary artists anticipate the transformations shaping our future, from energy and cities to technology, mobility and new forms of life.

Visions of Roma

A mapping of contemporary projects reshaping Rome’s identity and global role, told through the voices of its protagonists.

Contemporary World Observatory

xAXA

A comprehensive analysis that intercepts future trends through artistic and cultural scenarios.

Futuro Antico

A series of interviews with original voices of our time, seeking ancient antidotes to interpret modern complexity.

The Method:

Visionary Thinking

The world's first platform that explores and codifies the symbolic and scientific foundations of visionary transformation.

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SCHOOL OF VISION FOR ORGANISATION

We design experiential corporate journeys of up to 10 modules (90 minutes each) to activate visionary capability inside teams and organizations.

Through Visionary Thinking theory, encounters with field experts, and challenge-based learning workshops, participants learn how to awaken their inner world—and translate it into clear actions, decisions, and strategies in the external one.

TRUSTED FOR STRATEGIC and cultural PROGRAMME BY INSTITUTIONS ACROSS SECTORS

The Circle

30-day programme for established professionals

An immersive programme both online and in-person blending workshops, dialogue, and creative practice in a transformative setting.

February 2027

Private Programme

One-to-one

Define your own direction

A private one-to-one journey designed to uncover what is distinctly yours, give it a clear direction and translate it into a tangible next step.

2027

Masterclass

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Online Seminar

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Short Course

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DESIRE.

Desire is the first signal that something in us already knows where it needs to go. A pull toward forms, experiences and futures not yet realised. It gives direction before we have found the words for what we are moving toward.

The visionary mind learns to read its own desire with honesty and precision. To distinguish what has been inherited from what is genuinely its own. And to follow that thread, even when it leads somewhere without a name.

#SchoolOfVision #SpazioTaverna #Desire #VisionaryThinking #SpazioTavernaResearchCentre

READING ROOM
Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good

Iris Murdoch believed that the central problem of human life is not choice, but vision. Before we can act well, we must first learn to see clearly. And seeing clearly requires something rare: the ability to direct attention outward, away from the self, toward what is actually there.

This small, dense book makes a radical argument. Goodness is not a decision. It is a quality of attention. The person who sees others, situations, and reality with precision and without self-deception is already, in the most important sense, moving toward what is good.

For the visionary mind, this is not philosophy at a distance. It is a daily practice. The quality of what we create depends entirely on the quality of what we are able to see.

A book that asks very little of the reader in length, and everything in honesty.

#ReadingRoom #IrisMurdoch #TheSovereigntyOfGood #SchoolOfVision #spaziotaverna

Art anticipates the future.

The seventh episode of our 14-part video series, produced by School of Vision in collaboration with @eni and ROAD, hosted on @artribune, is now live!

Presented by Marco Bassan (@_marcobassan).
Produced by PRC.

This episode: Adrián Villar Rojas and The End of Imagination, a project built around the Time Engine — a machine that combines video game simulation software, artificial intelligence and environmental modelling to make sculptures and environments “evolve” digitally across thousands of years.

Washing machines, refrigerators, televisions lose their function. They merge with creatures from future worlds. They become technofossils: traces of industrial civilisation destined to enter the geological layers of the Earth, outlasting their purpose and perhaps our own species.

Villar Rojas does not predict the future. He builds a machine that makes it visible by removing human intention from the equation entirely.

What happens to the things we make when we are no longer here to define what they are for?

@spaziotaverna

ROAD - Rome Advanced District

#ROADistrict #RoadtoFuture #roadtoinnovation #AdrianVillarRojas #SchoolOfVision

What do artists and entrepreneurs really share?

More than it seems. Both begin with something that does not yet exist. Both must hold a vision through uncertainty, resistance, and the long distance between idea and form.

The words change. The inner movement is the same.

FORESIGHT and AGENCY are not professional skills. They are ways of being in the world that make creation possible, in any field.

#SchoolOfVision #SpazioTaverna #Foresight #Agency #visionarythinking

The visionary does not wait for permission to see differently. Does not ask for consensus before moving. Does not mistake the map for the territory, or the present for the limit of what is possible.

Visionary is not about prediction. It is about perception.

The door in the image is open. It always has been.

#SchoolOfVision #SpazioTaverna #Visionary #VisionaryThinking #SpazioTavernaResearchCentre

At Fondation Louis Vuitton, digital avatars move through a shifting cyber-universe. Their bodies are not fixed. Their identities are not biological. They evolve, dissolve, and reconfigure according to algorithms and inner states.

Lu Yang’s Doku, The Flow places a fundamental question at the centre of the work: what remains of the self when the body is no longer its container?

The installation does not mourn the loss of the physical. It explores what becomes possible when identity is freed from it. Fluid, algorithmic, perpetually becoming, the avatars of Lu Yang inhabit a condition that is no longer science fiction. It is already the terrain on which new forms of existence are being negotiated.

If the body is no longer the boundary of the self, where does the self begin?

#ObservatoryFromTheFuture #SchoolOfVision #SpazioTaverna #LuYang #ArtworkSpotlight

Art anticipates the future.

The sixth episode of our 14-part video series, produced by School of Vision in collaboration with @eni and ROAD, hosted on @artribune, is now live!

Presented by Marco Bassan (@_marcobassan).
Produced by PRC.

This episode: Monira Al Qadiri and Benzene Float, an installation composed of five monumental inflatable sculptures reproducing molecular models of petrochemical compounds: benzene, propane, naphtalene. Suspended in space, iridescent, hovering between science fiction and the pearl-fishing culture of pre-oil Kuwait.

By enlarging structures normally visible only at microscopic scale to over six metres, Al Qadiri makes visible what modern life depends on but rarely sees. The energy that powers the contemporary world has always had a material form. We have simply learned not to look at it.

What happens when we finally make the invisible infrastructure of our civilisation monumental enough to confront?

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ROAD - Rome Advanced District

#ROADistrict #RoadtoFuture #roadtoinnovation #MoniraAlQadiri #SchoolOfVision

At the Bauhaus, where women were largely directed away from painting and architecture, she entered the weaving workshop and turned it into a laboratory of thought. She understood that material has its own intelligence. That structure is a language. That the hand, when guided by a precise and curious mind, can produce ideas that theory alone cannot reach.

Her work did not decorate. It revealed. The grid, the tension, the interlocking of elements: all of it a rigorous investigation into how form carries meaning.

She showed that beauty is not the opposite of rigour. It is one of its highest expressions.

#TheVisionaryMind #AnniAlbers #VisionaryThinking #SchoolOfVision #SpazioTaverna

INNER WORLD.
The intimate space where identity is formed.

Vision does not begin outside. It begins here, in the accumulated weight of everything we have felt, remembered, imagined, and chosen to keep.

The inner world is not given. It is built slowly, through attention and selectivity, through the experiences we allow to stay and the ones we learn to release. It cannot be forced or accelerated. It grows in silence, through a continuous conversation between memory, feeling, and imagination.

Without this space, there is no vision. Only reaction.

#SchoolOfVision #SpazioTaverna #InnerWorld #VisionaryThinking #Interiority

There are moments when time disappears, effort becomes effortless, and the self dissolves into what it is doing. Csikszentmihalyi spent a lifetime studying those moments. He called the state flow.

Not pleasure. Not relaxation. Something more demanding and more alive: the condition of being so fully engaged that nothing else exists.

The visionary mind needs flow. Not as a technique, but as a compass. It points toward what genuinely asks to be done, and away from everything that merely fills the time.

A book that redefines what it means to live well. Not comfortably, but fully.

#ReadingRoom #Csikszentmihalyi #Flow #SchoolOfVision #SpazioTaverna

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THE READING ROOM - This weeks Suggestions

3-DAY LABS IN ICONIC ITALIAN CITIES

WAYS OF SEEING
J. Berger

Berger redefines how we look at images, exposing the hidden structures behind perception, power, and meaning. His work inspires the School of Vision’s commitment to questioning what we see — and why.

ALEPH
J. L. Borges

Borges reveals the infinite within the ordinary through a point that contains all perspectives. This vision of layered realities mirrors the School of Vision’s belief in art as a portal to multiplicity.

THE DICTIONARY OF
IMAGINARY PLACES
A. Manguel & G. Guadalupi

Mapping of fantastical worlds from literature, revealing how imagined spaces spark creativity and expand perception—core to the School of Vision’s mission to see beyond the ordinary and inspire visionary thinking.

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SPAZIO TAVERNA

SCHOOL OF VISION

The world’s first research centre dedicated to the science and culture of visionary thinking

News

Upcoming

The Circle
February - March 2027

A thirty-day programme for established professionals.

Online

Art Anticipates the Future
Ep. 1 Tomás Saraceno

Video Interviews

Online

VISION OF ROMA - Ep.4 ROAD

Video Interviews

Research

Partners

News

SCHOOL OF VISION FOR ORGANISATION

TRUSTED FOR STRATEGIC and cultural PROGRAMME BY INSTITUTIONS ACROSS SECTORS

Upcoming Education Programme

February 2027