No. 9The unknowns

Under the motto "Unknown Unknowns. An introduction to mysteries", the curator of the recent 23rd Milan Triennale 2022, the astrophysicist and director of the Diversity Office at the European Space Agency (ESA), Ersilia Vaudo asked artists, architects and scientists to propose projects that address "what we didn't know that we didn't know". A call with which she invited them to establish collective and interdisciplinary reflections on the immensity of knowledge yet to be discovered.

This request materialised in a constellation of installations, performances, events and debates referring to aspects such as gravity, light, the emerging challenges facing architecture or the mysteries linked to deep space. The curatorial commission sought to expand the frontiers of knowledge and to rethink knowledge that, being already known, deserved to be re-experienced, re-explored; or which, in order to be updated, would need to be combined with other sciences. The paradoxical motto - interpreted as an introduction to the mysterious - manifested the certainty of the existence of unknown unknowns which, in order to be worthy of attention, would require original questioning capable both of illuminating the present and the past from contemporary perspectives, and of promoting a better future.

We invite you to outline what is the unknown of the unknown through questions that have become the engine of knowledge that we must continue to join in order to contribute.