LIMES. Digital Fortifications

visions and architectures at the boundaries of the possible. From this point of view, AI can be understood as the construction of a heterotopic, non-hierarchical, multidimensional space with a defined though imprecise time, often a destorialised time, in which the concept of limit, wall or threshold marks the passage, but also the link between different territories and reference times. These thresholds, both symbolic and physical, do not, however, represent an external, physical boundary of protection and hierarchisation as, for example, in ancient Mesopotamian or Mediterranean cities. The concept of boundary or wall in this case lies primarily in the initial space, in what might be called the ‘genome’ of the prompt, but also in the space and limits of the representation of architectural images and visions.The purpose of the keynote is to explore both the elaboration of walls in a contemporary key starting from significant examples such as the ancient Persian gardens or the cyclopean walls of ancient Greece, but also to offer areas of reflection on the meaning of limit, perimeter or virtual walls within the process of representation and narration of Artificial Intelligence.