2011 Program
Evento n.13
Francesca Marzotto Caotorta
The garden of the mind
Much like the shape of clouds, the appearance of every garden depends on what surround sit. In order to make your garden a place of the mind and a plant architecture—a story of earth, water, stones, plants, your outdoors room and your destination, your peace and your memory, the theatre of your excesses, unspeakable ambitions, or recollections—you have to be able to see things which are sometimes as light and intangible as the breeze. You have to be able to define the canons that determine the quality of a garden. To establish them you need to undertake a dialogue with light, time, water, and the surrounding landscape—to consider color’s power of generating emotions. Every season is a scenario toward which plants draw us, a constantly renewed spectacle.
is a landscape artist and a well-known garden expert. She has founded and edited Gardenia, one of Italy’s most widely read gardening magazines, and has designed Milan’s Orticola, the popular flower and plant exhibition and market, of which she is currently vice-president. She has been both guest and host of a number of tv and radio shows, and has contributed to a number of dailies and periodicals, such as la Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Il Giornale, Casa Vogue, Abitare, Amica, Elle Decor. She has long held a gardening column (Verdissimo) in Il Sole 24 Ore. Her books include: Profumi ritrovati (1980), I segreti dei colori naturali (1982), published by Rizzoli; Viole, with M. Lombardi (Il Sole 24 Ore Edagricole, 1997); All’ombra delle farfalle. Il giardino e le sue storie (Mondadori, 2011).
Evento n.6
Zygmunt Bauman
Reflections on the notions of community and network, on social networks and Facebook
Evento n.14
Gian Carlo Calza
Different, eccentric, extraordinary: aesthetics and creativity between Asia and the West
Evento n.26
Franco Borgogno
In other people’s hearts and minds. A psychoanalyst between tradition and creativity
Evento n.37
Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni
A quiet sunny day. Attilio Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a friendship in verse
