the first European festival on creativity

2016 Program

Opening cerimony

Alessio Cavarra Mayor of the City of Sarzana
Ilaria Cavo Regional Councillor for Cummunication and Culture
Matteo Melley President of Fondazione Carispezia
Gustavo Pietropolli Charmet Scientific Director of Festival della Mente
Benedetta Marietti Artistic Director of Festival della Mente

Alessio Cavarra Mayor of the City of Sarzana
Ilaria Cavo Regional Councillor for Cummunication and Culture
Matteo Melley President of Fondazione Carispezia
Gustavo Pietropolli Charmet Scientific Director of Festival della Mente
Benedetta Marietti Artistic Director of Festival della Mente

2016 Program

Opening cerimony

Alessio Cavarra Mayor of the City of Sarzana Ilaria Cavo Regional Councillor for Cummunication and Culture Matteo Melley President of Fondazione Carispezia Gustavo Pietropolli Charmet Scientific Director of Festival della Mente Benedetta Marietti Artistic Director of Festival della Mente

An idea of public space

That place called “home”

The space of words: Helen and Odysseus

The last day of summer

The birth of space (and time)

The birth of space (and time)

The space of war. The First Italian War of Independence

Immunity and the brain: a dialogue between two chief systems. From memory to vaccines.

New males: as teenagers, in couples, as fathers

Tv series: a newly emerged continent

Across the American deserts: a voyage through 20th century collective imagination

What do algorithms think of?

That place is gone

The space of rebellion

Other maps, other worlds. Representations of space

The analyst at the movies: thinking by images

From the stars to Life: one, one hundred, one thousand Earths

Architectural space in the past, the present, the future

Families confined and without borders

The best ideas of our lives. Make room for innovation (the real kind)

The space of absence: Patroclus and Andromache

On the other side of the sea

Play it again

The space of war. The second Italian War of Independence

School is an idea of the world

Asperger Talk Show

Let’s make space for stupidity

Voyages through spaces real and imagined

Is there space for us all? The future of European migrations

When painters left their studios to paint en plein air

The memory of space. The rubble of climate and rubbish in our homes

Graffiti, tags and murals: when art extends to walls

The poetry of space. Words and drawings on that place we call home

The river is never wrong

Mirror neurons: anatomy of a revolutionary discovery

The boundaries of the soul and of the world

Alessio Cavarra Mayor of the City of Sarzana
Ilaria Cavo Regional Councillor for Cummunication and Culture
Matteo Melley President of Fondazione Carispezia
Gustavo Pietropolli Charmet Scientific Director of Festival della Mente
Benedetta Marietti Artistic Director of Festival della Mente