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Vivienne Roberts

Martina Ricciardi — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:23:33 +0000

Vivienne Roberts is one of the leading experts on mediumistic art, with a particular focus on female artists. Her most recent exhibition, Tranceducers: Art of Visionaries, Mediums and Automatists, was held in London. As former curator at the College of Psychic Studies, she has organized several major exhibitions exploring the intersection of spiritualism and art, including Strange Things Among Us (2021) and Creative Spirits (2022). She is the founder of the research websites mediumisticart.com, georgianahoughton.com, and madgegill.com, and has lectured widely and published numerous texts. Her research has led to the rediscovery of several overlooked spiritual artists. Roberts is a member of the British Art Network and the Visionary Women Research Group at the University of Barcelona.

Filippo Rosa

Festival della Mente — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 10:25:16 +0000

Filippo Rosa is a psychologist, psychotherapist in training, and a member of the Technology Addiction team at the Minotauro Institute. He works in clinical and research activities focused on developmental challenges and is actively involved in prevention, training, and awareness projects in secondary schools. He collaborates with the SiR Consortium (Solidarity in Network) by conducting psycho-educational and expressive-artistic workshops in correctional institutions.

Chiara Piazza

Festival della Mente — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:23:24 +0000

Chiara Piazza, a cellist, graduated from the Brescia Conservatory under the mentorship of Maestro Perucchetti. She has worked with several prestigious ensembles, including the Antonio Vivaldi Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Brescia and Bergamo International Piano Festival. Beyond her classical pursuits, she is also engaged in contemporary projects such as the Player 2 Orchestra and the CineSymphony Orchestra.

Drogheria Rebelot

Festival della Mente — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:47:48 +0000

Drogheria Rebelot is a theatre company born from the meeting of Miriam Costamagna, Andrea Lopez Nunes, and Andrea Rizzo at the Nico Pepe Academy of Dramatic Art in Udine. The show “Prendere il volo” ("Taking Flight") is based on the book of the same name by Marina Marinelli and Silvia Molinari, published by Topipittori (2020), and is produced by the TRG Foundation of Turin.

Alberto Rollo

Festival della Mente — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:37:53 +0000

Alberto Rollo, born in Milan, is a writer, critic, translator and significant figure in Italian publishing. A cultural worker and music lover, he translated, among others, Jonathan Coe, Steven Millhauser, Truman Capote and Henry James. He has published Un'educazione milanese (Manni, 2016, short-listed for the 2017 Premio Strega), L'ultimo turno di guardia (Manni, 2020, winner of L’Aquila International Literary Award and short-listed for Napoli Award), Il miglior tempo (Einaudi, 2021) and Il grande cielo (Ponte alle Grazie, 2023).

Sergio Rossi

Festival della Mente — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 09:37:22 +0000

Sergio Rossi is a physicist, writer, editor and scientific popularizer. His publications include: Quando si accesero le stelle (Feltrinelli, 2022), Ho trovato un dinosauro! (Feltrinelli, 2022). With Nikola Tesla (BeccoGiallo, 2019) he won the 2019 Dosi Prize for Science Communication and with Girotondo (Il Castoro, 2020) the Andersen Award for best comic book. In 2023 SOS acqua (Einaudi Ragazzi) and Prime lezioni di fisica (Gribaudo) were published.

Francesca Romana Motzo

Festival della Mente — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 08:40:49 +0000

Francesca Romana Motzo is a musician and music therapist. In her research she deepens the practice of sound-musical improvisation as an expressive mode of humans. He carries out a didactic-performative research on the link between sound and movement. In the world of contemporary music education, she carries out projects related to the beginning of life.

Amedeo Romeo

Festival della Mente — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 13:20:49 +0000

Amedeo Romeo has a degree in acting and has worked as an actor, author and theater director. He was Director of the Training Center of Teatri Possibili and coordinator of the homonymous national network of theater schools. Today he directs the Luzzati-Teatro della Tosse Foundation in Genoa. He has written several plays and short stories for children including L'universo in rima (Piemme, 2021).

Dorit Rabinyan

Festival della Mente — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:53:20 +0000

Dorit Rabinyan, class of 1972, was born in Israel into a Jewish family of Iranian origin. Her first novel, Persian Brides (Neri Pozza, 1995), was a great international success. After a period of artistic research ranging from theater to television, she returned to bookstores with her new novel Borderlife (Longanesi, 2017), which won the Bernstein Prize and climbed the charts worldwide.
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Carlo Ratti

Festival della Mente — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:26:08 +0000

Carlo Ratti, architect and engineer, teaches at MIT in Boston, where he directs the Senseable City Laboratory, and he is the founder of the international design and innovation studio Carlo Ratti Associati. His works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum in Barcelona, the Science Museum in London and the MoMA in New York. Two of his projects – the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel – have been nominated by the Time Best Inventions of the Year. Included by Wired among the 50 people who will change the world, he is co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanisation, and special advisor to the European Commission on digital and smart cities. He has written for Einaudi Architettura Open Source (2014) and La città di domani (with M. Claudel, 2017).