the first European festival on creativity

2018 Programme

Event #32

Dino Pedreschi

Virtual communities: how Big Data reflects society 

Modern society is a large, complex network that in many ways resembles the neural network of the brain. The existence of connections, of links, is responsible for the rapid growth of the web and of the Internet, for the speed of global communication, of the spread of news, information, epidemics and financial crises. Every phenomenon of social complexity has to do with networks and with the collective behavior of communities. The science of networks and Big Data offers new perspectives from which to observe, measure and predict the emergence of inequality and of hubs, the superconnections linking everyone; the diversity and intelligence of communities, the spread of innovations, the polarization of opinions and the loss of collective intelligence. Flushing away any preconception and judgement.

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Dino Pedreschi is a professor of Computer science at the University of Pisa, and a pioneer in Data Science and Big Data, which analyze the digital footprint of human activity to shed light on social complexity. He is director of the KDD LAB-Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, a joint research center of the University of Pisa and CNR. The main focus of his studies is the impact that data science has on society: smart cities, mobility, social and financial networks, ethics and privacy, democracy. He is one of the founders of the SoBigData.eu Social Mining & Big Data Ecosystem. He has worked at the Center for Complex Network Research in Boston, at the University of Texas in Austin, at CWI in Amsterdam and at UCLA. He heads the PhD in Data Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.


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Andrea Riccardi

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Event #2

Jan Brokken, Massimo Cirri

Jungle Rudy – the loner and the community

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Olivia Sellerio

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Serena Dandini, Michela Murgia

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Ian Goldin

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Federico Condello

School, community, justice

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Cristiano Galbiati

The Argonauts in pursuit of dark matter

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Giuseppe Festa

On a journey with wolves

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Franco Farinelli

Space, modernity, community 

Event #15

Massimiliano Valerii

What are today’s myths?

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Stefano Allievi

Immigration: changing everything

Event #17

Mario Cucinella

Architecture as a political action and an instrument for territories’ revitalization 

 

Event #18

Esther Perel

Betraying a relationship: reasons for unfaithfulness 

Event #19

Antonio Forcellino

The Renaissance emporium – the heart of the artistic community. 

 

Event #20

Kamila Shamsie

In the name of love 

Event #22

Hervé Barmasse

My life between zero and 8000

Event #23

Alessandro Barbero

World War I
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Event #25

Angélique Del Rey

Against competition

Event #26

Alessandro Barbero

World War I: Caporetto 

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Roberto Esposito

Back to community? 

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Daniele Zovi

The wood as a community: cooperation and interdependence among plants

Event #32

Dino Pedreschi

Virtual communities: how Big Data reflects society 

Event #33

Anna Foa

From community to citizenship: European Jews facing modernity 

Event #34

Matteo Nucci, Davide Livornese

The community of theatre

Event #35

Gabriele Lolli, Marco Licalzi

Tales from the Tower of Babel

Event #36

Mimmo Cuticchio

Duelling marionettes 

Event #38

Maddalena Crippa

The Widow Merry. Café chantant

Event #39

Alessandro Barbero

World War One. From the battles of the Piave River to Vittorio Veneto.

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Luca Boscardin

Profession… toy designer!

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Fausto Gilberti

This family is a circus!

Event #50Children / Kids

Dino Ticli

Horrible plants and animals

Event #52Children / Kids

Claudia Corrent, Luca Quinzani

On a piece of paper the sun turns… blue!

Event #55Children / Kids

Giuseppe Festa

Opening our senses to Nature

Event #56Children / Kids

Sara Donati

Illuminating portraits

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Magic sandbox. Playing with augmented reality

Event #59Children / Kids

Caterina Giannotti, Maria Pia Montagna

Writing is a game if you know the rules!

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Elena Corniglia

Accessible books for an inclusive community

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Claudia Corrent

Nature's footprints: experiments in blue 

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