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2014 Programme

Event #29

Stefano Arienti, Franco Farinelli

Journey and Adventures in Knowledge

Until the nineteenth century art and science entertained a cordial relationship, then became more distant, except for a few rare exceptions. A moment of encounter between the two took place during the great scientific expeditions that were organized, starting in the Age of Enlightenment, in all the continents. One of the most famous and adventurous was the journey to the equinoctial regions undertaken by Alexander von Humboldt who, in the early nineteenth century, traversed Central and South America together with the naturalist and illustrator Aimé Bompland. That legendary exploration offers a subject of discussion between Francon Farinelli, leading Italian geographer, and Stefano Arienti, one of Italy’s most esteemed artists in the world, on the journey as an instrument of knowledge, the occasion for discussing models and ideas received.

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Stefano Arienti

(1961, Asola, Mantova), laureato in Scienze agrarie, ha tenuto mostre personali in istituzioni d’arte italiane e straniere, fra cui Museo MAXXI Roma, Isabella Gardner Museum, Boston. Ha partecipato alle Biennali di Venezia, Istanbul e Gwanjiu. Ha viaggiato in Europa, Nord America e India. Ha insegnato all’Accademia di Belle Arti Giacomo Carrara di Bergamo e all’Università IUAV di Venezia. Ha illustrato la nuova edizione del Viaggio nelle regioni equinoziali di A. von Humboldt (Quodlibet/Humboldt, da fine agosto 2014).

Farinelli Franco, professore geografia, universit Bologna, Festivalfilosofia © 2004 Giliola CHISTE'

Franco Farinelli

(1948, Ortona) is director of the Department of Philosophy and Communication at the University of Bologna, and president of the Association of Italian Geographers (Agei). He has taught at the Universities of Geneva, Los Angeles (UCLA), Berkeley, and in Paris at the Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure. His books include: Geografia and Crisi della ragione cartografica, both published by Einaudi. He edited the new Italian edition of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions by A. von Humboldt (Quodlibet/Humboldt scheduled for publication in late August 2014).

2014 Programme

Event #29

Stefano Arienti, Franco Farinelli

Journey and Adventures in Knowledge

Rediscovering Reason in Order to Avoid a Shipwreck

The Epidemic of Immaturity: from Peter Pan to Harry Potter

Growing Up Is Hard

Creativity: the Perfect Crime

Le difettose (The Flawed)

How Do Wars Break Out? World War I

The Explosion of the Mutants

Other Mothers, Other Fathers, New Adolescents

One Day this Creativity Will Come In Handy

Europe Risks a New Self-Destruction

Can One Forgive in Love?

The Discovery of the Birth of a Film

“Vivervirtuale”

Kids, You Are Not Special!

New Grandparents for New Grandchildren

Surviving Middle School

Writing with a Camera

Lots Can Still Be Done, This Is Why the Future Is Marvellous

The Death of Study

The Secret of the Consciousness and its Measurement

All Unhappy Families Are Like One Another

Out of Place

How Do Wars Break Out? World War II

Absolute beginners

New Identity of the Indian Woman

A Dialogue on the Spaces (and the Things) We Inhabit

Generational Crisis, Male Crisis, Italian Crisis

Journey and Adventures in Knowledge

My Children, Imaginary Marxists

School Drops-Out and Their Antagonists

From Being Kids “Against” to Being Responsible Ones

Inheritance, Tradition, Generational Changes

Creating Doesn’t Mean Improvising

The Myth of Perfection in Contemporary Femininity

Matteo and His Seven Shirts

The Night of Fate