Since its inception ten years ago, the highly articulated and academically teeming course on industrial design of La Sapienza University in Rome has come to play an important role on the national scene under the direction of its president, Professor Tonino Paris, and with its highly renowned masters and research doctorates is attracting increasing ...
There are certain criteria involved in buying a car nowadays; some of these we could define as “mathematical”, such as price or performance, easily comparable between makes and models. There are also more subjective factors, that depend on our personal tastes, such as the shape, or the combination of lines and colours that define a car’s styl...
Established in South Africa seventy years ago, the Corporation currently employs 17,000 workers and operates out of countries in all five continents, turning out five million tons of paper a year. Thanks to these figures, Sappi [ www.sappi.com ] is the number one paper-milling company in the world. Its claim to leadership, though, has not blinded i...
Rather than being a metaphysical entity, a brain is first and foremost a local aggregate of matter, a knot of interwoven and interlinked neurons acting as pathways for chemicals and electrical charges to travel down and along.
Scientists are no longer that sure that it works on a rigidly sectional basis, even though they admit that it’s made u...
Andrea Segrè, dean of the agricultural faculty at Bologna University, is one of the founders of Lastminutemarket. The association was established in 1998 with the scope of recovering waste and turning into an opportunity. It does this by withdrawing food products close to their expiry date but still on the shelf from chain stores and other sources...
You’ve written that one of the tragic circumstances befalling our times is the fracture dividing the economy, ecology and ecumenism.
The modern world in its Western, dominant and domineering version is characterised by a separation into spheres. That’s both its strength, because such differentiation allows for greater rationality and freedom, ...
“Yes friends, I firmly believe that one day water will be used as fuel. The hydrogen and oxygen that go to make it up are a source of heat and light…” So spoke Julius Verne in 1874. His words not only strike us today for their foresightedness, but they also hold out hope for us in an age faced with at least three major threats such as food sh...
What matters is being as light as a swallow, not as a feather.
This statement, quoted from Paul Valery, is Domenico De Masi's visiting card, and it's the first thing browsers to his site [www.domenicodemasi.it]
come across. The mental flexibility and agility suggested by these words are indeed a hallmark of the man.
Domenico De Masi teaches la...
The sorry state in which our planet has come to find itself and the far from comforting forecasts as to energy source availability and air, water and soil pollution have risen awareness as to the need to put a stop to the ongoing use and abuse of natural resources.
In the late eighties a new concept, sustainable development, used for the first t...
From declaration of intent to reality. We’re talking of the Kyoto protocol, which has come into full force and effect. The priority is now to cut back on the emission of gases, especially carbon dioxide, suspected of being the leading cause of global warming.
It’s the first albeit perhaps too late step in the direction of attempting to offse...
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.