The future is unpredictable, fortunately.

“Science is not powerless, but my years of study and work have shown me that not everything is foreseeable, not in the stars, not on Earth.” – Margherita Hack

Nobody can know the future – but is that really a bad thing? Or isn’t it perhaps that part of sustainability is also unpredictability, the idea that no one really knows what is coming? If that is the case, we should see this as an added value to our lives, welcome it, and use it to prepare for a future that is, in any case, coming. It is with this in mind that we decided to dedicate the first issue of our magazine, Innesti (“grafting”, in English), to unpredictability and to those people that have been able to use this apparent disadvantage into a type of strength.

Our magazine is all about sustainability, and in this issue – with topics ranging from agriculture to urban digital production, from marine biodiversity to the fashion system – you will find stories that will prompt you to think about unpredictability as an added value, as a way to think outside the box and succeed; they will show you how losing control is sometimes a good thing, and how collaborating with nature the way to move forward into the unknown.

Nobody can know the future – but is that really so? Or is it perhaps that our behaviour and choices are what shape our future? It is the paths we take or leave, after all, that can make a change and start new projects. But at the same time, embracing innovation and unpredictability can be the true driving force behind our fight against the instability and precariousness of our present, and an important part of transforming negative experiences into something incredible. Just like in agriculture, when grafting gives birth to beauty.