Global conversations and reflections
In an increasingly fast and interconnected world, a magazine can slow down the pace and become a space for reflection and learning. This is the role of illywords.
For several years, the magazine has published dialogues, opinions and points of view on themes dear to a company living in the contemporary world. Topics have covered space, courage, dreams, multiculturalism, awareness, chaos and the non-linear path of knowledge, to name just a few.
The illy ‘words’ belong to people from different countries, cultures and professions who are part of illycaffè’s human and professional network around the world. They convey varying opinions and points of view which narrate life through each author’s language and personal experience of it.
Each issue of illywords is illustrated with images by students from schools of art and design throughout the world, who turn the magazine into their own laboratory of personal and collective creativity.
We decided to open and enrich the network’s thoughts of illywords to interact and jointly create new worlds and new images.
The views of all of us will contribute to enrich a new generation of creative enthusiasts.
Editorial Team
Ariella Risch
A freelance journalist since 1991, is a corporate animal who likes to explore. After the publicity, science, art, design, editorial projects is put on the network. She loves to eat but also cook.
Provided low heat.
Barbara Dolenc
Tech enthusiast since when, at age 12, her father came home with her first personal computer, she tried to uncover its secrets by taking the road to the top of the programming.
This way she understands that, in reality, the technology is better for her to be used for communicating instead of trying to understand it, and start living (also) on the internet; thanks to this, today, her passion also coincides (in part) with her work.
She loves all kind of music. Better at a high volume. Best if played live in a stadium.
Roberta Corradin
For over a decade Roberta Corradin has been covering travel and food for Italian Marie Claire, La Repubblica, L'Espresso, Gambero Rosso, illywords and others. Her Italian rendition of Spices, History of a Temptation by Jack Turner was awarded with Premio Costa d'Amalfi. She edited the English version of Nonna Genia's Classic Langhe Cookbook.
Her fiction works are published in German, French, and Spanish. Her last book Le cuoche che volevo diventare was published in Italy by Einaudi in 2008 and was awarded with Premio Costa d'Amalfi and Premio Libri da gustare.
Mauro Scanu
I am a science writer. Currently, I am focused on energy and climate issues but occasionally I write about psychology and cognitive science. In the past, I have published two books: a biography of Margherita Hack, a well-known Italian astrophysicist, and a collection of interviews about the Italian brain drain. At the moment I am author and producer of Enel TV's monthly science .
Angela Vettese
Angela Vettese is an art critic and curator. She is the Director of the Graduate Programme in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the Iuav University in Venice, where she teaches Theory and Criticism of Contemporary Art as an Associate Professor. She has taught at numerous fine arts academies, at the Bocconi University in Milan (2000/2007) and since 1986 she has written for the Sole 24 Ores Domenica magazine. She is President of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice (since 2002) and Director of Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan (since 2008). She has published essays in catalogues for institutions and has written several books, among others Capire l’arte contemporanea (Understanding Contemporary Art, Allemandi, Turin 1996 and 2006), Artisti si diventa (Becoming an Artist, Carocci, Rome 1998), A cosa serve l’arte contemporanea (The Purpose of Contemporary Art, Allemandi, Turin 2001) Ma questo è un quadro (This is a Picture, Carocci, Rome 2005).
Marco Minuz
Italian, 31 years old, a scolastic career compose of wrong strategic choices (diploma in telecomunication, architecture, journalism) but internally a mysterious sense of serendipity. One day I discovered, thank the enthusiam of a university professor, a strange sense of affinity with the world of art. Since then I've been involved in working with different projects and museum such as Fondazione Querini Stampalia and Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Now I'm working on editorial, curatorial, photographic and cultural projects. I teach at the university while remaning a student myself. I'm interested in working in many fields and with different people in order to study interdisciplinary aspects of the art world. I'm interested in "radioactive" people, those are able to "contaminate" people around them.
Alexandra M. Korey
A professor of art history and arts blogger with a passion for all that is Italy, arts, design, technology, and social media. Born in Toronto Canada, she now makes Florence Italy her home (after completing her studies in Toronto, Syracuse NY, and the PhD at the University of Chicago). In traditional media, she has published articles on 16th-century German and Italian prints and an encyclopedia entry on Artemisia Gentileschi... but she lives for the instant satisfaction of writing about art for the various blogs she curates, including the official blog for the arts in Tuscany.
Silvia Vatta
Silvia Vatta was born in Trieste in 1983. For about 7 years she lived and studied in Venice, and she’s still in love with that city.
Now she lives and works in London, in the visual arts. She tries to discover as many things as possible.
She loves when people tell her stories, in any form: written, designed, filmed,cooked or in song.
Anna Adriani
Global PR Director, illycaffé
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