Futurizing Villa Medici

Winner of three Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire awards, Alain Damasio is a leading French science fiction writer who has enjoyed considerable critical and public success. He rose to prominence with his novel La Horde du Contrevent (2004), translated into Italian, and Les Furtifs, a fantastical novel with strong political undertones in which he invents an animal species capable of escaping human detection. A creator of worlds for video games, cinema, TV series, and theater, he regularly brings his own texts to the stage in concert. In 2021, he created a zone of social, terrestrial, and enchanted experimentation (Zeste) in the Alps, where our sensitive and artistic connections to the forces of life are collectively explored through workshops and seminars.