the first European festival on creativity

Previous editions

2011

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The Festival’s project is to address creativity and its processes with the help of such unique witnesses as the thinkers, theoreticians, scholars of the mind who will offer our audiences a total of 39 unique workshops, lectures, and performances designed on purpose for them. We are hoping to make these three days of meetings and discussions a true and proper celebration of the mind and of free thought, meant for all those who seek instruments in order to understand themselves and the surrounding reality—for all those who believe that culture is a crucial tool to improve our lives.

Every year the Festival’s director Giulia Cogoli, discusses the topics ahead of time with the prospective speakers in view of offering something new: a sort of common journey rather than just a list of events. Thus, after more than 400 events successfully designed and staged with the cooperation of over 300 intellectuals, the challenge continues in our quest for innovative and stimulating topics to be addressed in a pleasant, informal atmosphere.

Previous editions

2011

Programme of the 8th edition

Too much inequality hinders everyone’s well-being

Flowing in time like a river pebble

Kinds of lies

What is life? Can artificial life exist?

Italy

Reflections on the notions of community and network, on social networks and Facebook

How did Middle Ages men think? The friar

How to write a screenplay

Mythological forms of memory in ancient Greece and Rome

History from the viewpoint of women

Crime and forgiveness

The garden of the mind

Different, eccentric, extraordinary: aesthetics and creativity between Asia and the West

About balance

As you have seen it on tv

On philosophical imagination

City, metropolis and urban design

Paths of humanization

Poetry knows everything first

What is life? Life is communication

Love and flesh

Diderot, Rameau and other paradoxes

How did Middle Ages men think? The merchant

Pina’s step

In other people’s hearts and minds. A psychoanalyst between tradition and creativity

In words and pictures: cinema and literature

Mind and body: anorexia, or the enigma of desire

Intellectual types, styles and powers

The power of images, the images of power

Mind, communication and language in animals, including Homo sapiens

Regretting the families of yesteryear?

The Muse of impossibility

Mathematics is the game of life

Saving human energy. Breathing: a source of universal sharing

What is life? Life yesterday, today and tomorrow

A quiet sunny day. Attilio Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a friendship in verse

Mind Juggler

How did Middle Ages men think? The knight