The first day of the symposium convenes an international gathering exploring the future of art mediation within changing social, institutional, and technological conditions. Bringing together perspectives from theory, research, artistic practice, and museum education, the symposium examines how museums can evolve as spaces for collective learning, civic participation, knowledge production, and new forms of human and technological interaction. Through workshops, conversations, and public panels, contributors will address mediation in relation to community engagement, artificial intelligence, accessibility, institutional transformation, and diverse representation.

Futures of Art Mediation combines closed practice laboratories with a public conference, creating exchange between experimental formats and critical reflection.

Topics include:

• Participation and institutional critique
• AI and mediation
• Community-based practice
• Museums and urban publics
• Diversity, power structures, and accessibility
• Future institutional models for mediation 

Keynote and invited participants include international voices from the fields of contemporary art, critical museum studies, education, cultural theory, and AI ethics.