The concept of trusting (giving confidence) to touch refers to an idea of truth, authenticity, if I can touch it is true, it exists. If I ‘feel’ through my hands I can trust and recognise the real. In the age of interfaces, of images that under the smooth, perfect, indestructible technological ‘shield’ tell synthetic and modifiable truths, there is a need to rediscover the ‘porosity’ of materials that nature makes imperfect and beautiful. As Belpoliti writes in Doppiozero, ‘The haptic is a function of the skin, as Giuliana Bruno wrote in Atlante delle emozioni (Johan & Levi edizioni), it constitutes the “mutual contact between us and the environment”. That touch, Touch, is about the recognition of objects through touch’. And again: ‘McLuhan understood, at the threshold of the computer age, that the world would soon be composed of disconnected fragments, and that a unifying consciousness was therefore needed. Touch, in its haptic form, is just that.’