the first European festival on creativity

2015 Programme

Event #17

Aldo Colonetti, Italo Rota

The space we live in is nothing but an extension of our minds

Is it possible to design with Nature, and not against it? Can we go on using energy at the lowest possible cost, drawing it from renewable sources and protecting the environment we live in, as well as ourselves? Italo Rota and Aldo Colonetti try to answer these important questions setting off from the fact that every project connected to energy faces us with the pressing and powerful issue of our collective and individual future. Designs derive from a combination of research, science, industry, art and humanities acting in concert, mediated and made possible by personal involvement and individual action. As Marc Auge stated, “Everything starts and ends with the most modest of individuals, and the greatest endeavours are vane if they do not concern him at least a little”.

Aldo Colonetti

is a philosopher, historian and scholar of art, architecture and design. From 1985 to 2013 he was the scientific director of IED (Istituto Europeo Design); from 1991 to 2014 he directed the publication Ottagono. He was a member of the Scientific committee for the Milan Triennial, of the ADI Presidency Committee, and of the National Council of Design. He has authored essays and curated exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

Italo Rota

is an architect and designer. His works include the renovation of the Museo del Novecento in Milan. He curated the Arts & Foods exhibition at the Triennale in Milan and designed the Kuwait pavilion and Italian Wine pavilion for the Expo. His books include: Cosmologia portatile. Scritti, disegni, mappe, visioni (2013) and Una storia elettrica (2015), both published by Quodlibet..

2015 Programme

Event #17

Aldo Colonetti, Italo Rota

The space we live in is nothing but an extension of our minds

Augustus: the political ethics of a republican monarch

The secret ingredient of life

An act of humanity to be performed

Anna Bonaiuto reads Elena Ferrante

A slow story

The historian's responsibility. Gaetano Salvemini: from Socialist interventionism to anti-Fascism

Beyond the boundaries of Babel

Kids and school: what, how and where are they learning

How the sense of Us is born: from We-go to Ego

Generation 2.0

We're the Africans

In my name

Gender-based violence: Perpetrators, victims and models of intervention.

The mountain and silence

In praise of the best student in class

Mothers

Mothers

The space we live in is nothing but an extension of our minds

Mathematics, algorithms and freedom

Mathematics, algorithms and freedom

Oedipus’ eyes and Plato’s complex

Oedipus’ eyes and Plato’s complex

Can books change the world?

LA LA LA. When there is no answer

The historian’s responsibility. Marc Bloch: from the Sorbonne to the Gestapo prisons

Returning to the garden

Laziness, fatigue, and our constant running

Knowing ourselves and knowing others: a different way of being responsible

“Borderline” kids meet the adult world

A painting for freedom

Cruciverba volant (unbuckle your seatbelts)

Magic acts of vision

Theatres of memory between enchantment and utopia

Our careers as readers

The aviator’s tale

Into the wild