Festival della Mente » 2019 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/ Il primo festival europeo dedicato alla creatività Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:42:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 Event #56 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/the-robots-zoo/ https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/the-robots-zoo/#comments Sun, 01 Sep 2019 10:26:43 +0000 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/?p=14915 The Robots’ zoo

]]> Workshop ages 8-13 60 minutes
20 participants

 

Animals into space? Sure…robotic animals! With We Do 2.0 robots’ kits for young scientists and using the Scratch coding software we will construct a robotic animals’ zoo, trying to imagine and reproduce the behavior of this special and special characters.

]]> https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/the-robots-zoo/feed/ 0 Event #57 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/understand-and-then-choose/ https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/understand-and-then-choose/#comments Sun, 01 Sep 2019 09:32:31 +0000 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/?p=14870 Understand and then choose

]]> Workshop ages 8-10 60 minutes
25 participants

 

Even when science seems magic, behind it there is the rigorous work of dozens of scientists that, with method, try and re-try all their experiments. About environmental problems and fake news, a workshop ideated to develop a critical spirit and play with science to fall in love with it and to prepare oneself to free choices in future.

]]> https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/understand-and-then-choose/feed/ 0 Event #58 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/and-you-which-fear-do-you-have/ https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/and-you-which-fear-do-you-have/#comments Sun, 01 Sep 2019 09:17:07 +0000 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/?p=14845 And you, which fear do you have?

]]> Workshop ages 4-8 60 minutes
25 participants

 

A girl moves to another a new city, but when she starts going to school, Fear renders her lonely and insecure. How can she make new friends if she does not understand what her fellows are saying? Maybe she is not the only one to feel like that. A special book will help to tell and draw fear, because, in the end, fear can also be fun!

]]> https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/and-you-which-fear-do-you-have/feed/ 0 Event #59 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/touching-the-sky-with-a-finger/ https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/touching-the-sky-with-a-finger/#comments Sun, 01 Sep 2019 09:08:58 +0000 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/?p=14829 Touching the sky with a finger

]]> Experiential workshop ages 6-12 60 minutes
25 participants

 

Thanks to an inflatable planetary we will be able to make an incredible journey through stars and even touching the sky with a finger. We will learn how to recognize principal constellations of summer and autumn sky and to orient with the stars. Myths, legends, poems and stories will assist an extraordinary trip into space.

]]> https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/touching-the-sky-with-a-finger/feed/ 0 Event #34 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/re-writing-the-future-of-our-children/ https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/re-writing-the-future-of-our-children/#comments Sun, 01 Sep 2019 09:04:49 +0000 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/?p=15173 Re-writing the future of our children

]]> Future has always been to invent. To do so, in the past we first relied on the afterlife and then on progress, that we now lack of. And nowadays? We can paint the darkness, using the black of the crisis: the only outcome has been to produce fear, disenchantment and cynicism in young people. We can celebrate the old times, take refuge in the Renaissance, up until making Italy a theme park, as it is already happening. Which benefit can take from this vision a young person that fears not to find a job? The only way is to break the shakedown of the present, learning to believe, practice the possible instead of the existing. Because the existing – as girls and boys are telling us – consumes the planet in a few years. But how do we help a generation re-writing the future? Does not the politics of the future serve for this purpose?

]]> https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/re-writing-the-future-of-our-children/feed/ 0 Event #33 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/the-chimera-of-peace/ https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/the-chimera-of-peace/#comments Sun, 01 Sep 2019 08:56:23 +0000 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/?p=15167 The chimera of peace

]]> The past of relations between the populations involved in the Middle East conflicts is sadly known: the inter-religious dialogue is, even today, one of the main obstacles to achieving political stability and the interruption of the fratricidal war between Israel and Palestine. Over the years, many stories have been written that have enclosed with incredible force the very essence of the conflict and its terrible consequences, reaching readers all over the world thanks to exceptional narrators such as Dorit Rabinyan who, in dialogue with Alessandro Zaccuri, will reflect on the future of this seemingly insoluble plot. Is it possible for people who have been at war for generations to live together peacefully? What are the paths that can currently be taken towards tomorrow?


Interpreter: Marina Astrologo.

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]]> Contemporary art production polarized itself in a relationship between the city and the outskirts. Taking account of the recent climate emergencies and the new digital ubiquity, how do artistic performances and practices diversify? How does the centrality of megalopolis interact with the works created outside the art’s centers of power? A curator, Ilaria Bonacossa, and an artist, Massimo Bartolini, will investigate the transformations happening in the present cultural and productive panorama.

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]]> When one speaks of plants, no one would ever think about taking them as a model to imitate to create the robots of the future, machines that are able to operate in contexts outside factories and capable of adapting to extreme and ever-changing environments. Though, nowadays technology is investigating vegetable’s chemical communication, movement and defense so as to transfer them to avant-garde machine serving the humanity. Barbara Mazzolai, inventors of the plantoide, – the first robot inspired to the plants world that will be able to find employment in various fields: from special exploration to environment monitorization – tells why, to be able to imagine an eco-sustainable future, it is necessary that biology and technology will proceed together to investigate nature’s mysteries.

]]> https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/robots-of-the-future-and-plants/feed/ 0 Event #36 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/achilles-odysseus-and-the-truth-of-the-future/ https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/achilles-odysseus-and-the-truth-of-the-future/#comments Sun, 01 Sep 2019 08:46:51 +0000 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/?p=15142 Achilles, Odysseus and the truth of the future

]]> According to the ancients, Achilles and Odysseus were two opposite figures. The former was straightforward, spontaneous, direct. The latter was deceptive, prudent, and with tortuous thoughts. Two forms of intelligence, therefore, mainly linked to a different way of living. Achilles is constantly thrown into the present. Odysseus, on the other hand, never stops planning for the future. And yet great souls are full of contradictions. In his eagerness to look beyond, Odysseus' future often appears as a chimera. While Achilles seems to tell us that only by living the present is it possible to build a future. But what to do when the future is broken by an untimely end? At the moment when Achilles, in Hades, will meet Odysseus still alive, we will discover a great truth. A truth which, however, Odysseus did not have the courage to grasp.

]]> https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/achilles-odysseus-and-the-truth-of-the-future/feed/ 0 Event #60 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/evento-n-60/ https://www.festivaldellamente.it/en/evento-n-60/#comments Sun, 01 Sep 2019 08:44:27 +0000 https://www.festivaldellamente.it/?p=14811 Revolution is done by feet!”

]]> Walk-workshop ages 9-13
90 minutes 25 participants

 

Small steps to change the world, a ludic path to put into practice some little revolutions. To feel better with oneself, with the others and the planet. To bring: a call sign, a motto and a smile. Not to bring: the fear of getting bored. Advised against: to whom that thinks that a small action cannot change things.

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