What it is about
If you were to re-found your company today on another planet, which values would you take with you?
This question marked the starting point of the experiential training workshop that Sineglossa conceived and facilitated for Deep Blue, hosted in the spaces of Industrie Fluviali in Rome. A collective journey involving around 80 people, which for one morning transformed the company into a place of shared experimentation, where art and creativity became tools to make visible and open to discussion aspects of corporate identity that are often implicit.
The workshop followed a format that Sineglossa had already tested with the editorial team of Mangrovia, the magazine curated by Sineglossa about other stories of technology, culture, and society, and with the CNA Ancona organization on the occasion of their eightieth anniversary.
The aim of the workshop
The aim of the workshop was not the drafting of a manifesto or the normative definition of values, but the activation of an open process: giving form to what is intangible, externalizing perceptions, visions, and different sensibilities, in order to bring out the various values that team members associate with the company’s identity.
Within a work context that often tends to privilege a logical–rational approach, the process deliberately also activated an artistic, creative, and non-linear dimension, capable of embracing complexity, differences, and fluid dynamics.
The Mangrovia cards: a visionary analog tool
Guiding the process were the cards and visionary graphics of Mangrovia, Sineglossa’s editorial project dedicated to the encounter between art, technology, and society.
After an initial icebreaker – during which each participant chose a Mangrovia card to talk about their role or contribution within Deep Blue – the groups were “sent on a mission”: to symbolically re-found the company on Proxima Centauri B, bringing with them a value considered foundational, defining, and indispensable.
That value was then translated into an image through the selection, cutting, and composition of visual elements, culminating in the collaborative creation of thematic collages and a final sharing in plenary.
The workshop was designed and facilitated by Alessia Tripaldi and Tommaso Sorichetti, who guided the groups through a co-creation process free from judgment, yet structured and mediated through creative tools.
Are you interested in bringing the workshop to your organization?
This workshop was created to raise awareness within a community around shared themes and values, fostering a non-normative and genuinely participatory exchange, and building future scenarios through collective imagination. The nature of the activity makes it possible to conduct the workshop also in languages other than Italian and to include people with disabilities.
If you are looking for a team-building journey, both in English and Italian, focused on your organization’s values, write to us: we could design the next mission together.
