Posts Tagged ‘community’

Professione? Blogger

-> Professione? Blogger

Come ospite del Blog Café a Squisito, ho avuto l'opportunita di incontrare dei importanti Blogger. Luigi di PorzioniCremona, Agostinelli, Massimo Bernardi di Dissapore... sono tutti esperti maratoneti della cronaca minuto per minuto. L'evento è stato diretto magistralmente da Luigi Cremona e Lorenza Vitali (Witaly). Amorevoli con tutti i...

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La Verità

-> La Verità

Gae Aulenti dice: "... la cerchi malgrado tutto una verità!"... e verso l'obiettivo le si legge qualcosa nello sguardo: scetticismo? rassegnazione? Possiamo dare risposte diverse e il significato sta in quelle due parole:"malgrado tutto". Io dico malgrado la paura di scoprire la verità, malgrado spesso non la si riconosca quando la troviamo...

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Refresh America

Magazine -> #14 Refresh

The United States has been called the land of opportunity, the place where life can begin anew. Today America is a destination for young people from all over the world who want to further their studies. The best American Universities attract talent, allow direct contact with research and support student innovation. We met one of these talents, Enri...

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City equals culture

Magazine -> #18 Food for the mind

What is the role of culture in redeveloping a city? We are also talking about future challenges for a city like Rome, in competition with the world’s major capital cities. For a city such as Rome, culture is fundamental, as it is for the whole country. This is not just because of what it has represented, worldwide, for centuries, but because of ...

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The values of relations

Magazine -> #3 Weaving relations

The relation between company and consumer in the western world has changed enormously in recent times, giving rise to changes in corporate missions themselves. Today, product performance and quality are taken for granted and, therefore, they are no longer the only reason why a given product is purchased. Moreover, having already satisfied their pri...

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To google

Magazine -> #20 Home Made

In front a cup of coffee. Google is perhaps one of the best examples of how an idea can create a successful project. The engine behind a great many innovations and new attitudes, it has even altered the English language (the verb “to google” for example, now used by web users as a synonym for “search”). But what is the story behind Goog...

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Online experience

Magazine -> #20 Home Made

Can you tell us how your blook was created? The process was different from the traditional route followed by Italian publishing and media. In 2005, we read an inquiry in El País entitled La Generación De Los Mil Euros: young people aged 25-35 forced into temporary jobs with a salary of 1000 euros a month. It was a similar situation to what we h...

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The perfection of imperfect

Magazine -> #20 Home Made

Your work shows your clear preference for the “manual” dimension, which we could express with the term “home made” – is this the result of a strong desire to rediscover your roots? It is part of our background, connected to the place where we were born. We have never abandoned our roots. Although we work in São Paulo, Humberto and I ha...

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Labour ecology

Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecology

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...

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Authentic Cisneros

Magazine -> #14 Refresh

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 in a family of Mexican extraction. She's currently one of the most complex literary voices of the United States. 
Legend and history, poetry and prose, the radio and music, English and Spanish are interwoven in her writings like the threads that go to make up the warp and weft of a caramel coloured rebo...

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A book to live by

Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledge

How much, do you feel, does literature contribute to the diffusion of knowledge? In so far as they represent possible ways of living, mirrors in which to view ourselves, yardsticks that can help us in making choices and taking decisions, works of literature contribute to disseminating knowledge. The make-believe world of literature suggests that ...

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Interview with Jannis Kounellis

Magazine -> #9 Coopetition

You've asserted, to use your words, that "a journey, any journey, is essentially an initiation, an affirmative and conscious statement of love for knowledge". Would you say an artist sets out on such a journey alone? Is it necessarily a solitary journey or can it be undertaken with other artists as travel companions? Well, it's difficult to say. ...

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Thank goodness for complexity!

Magazine -> #7 Chaos

Francesco Di Lauro talks with  Ernesto Illy Order is good, disorder bad. But is that really how things stand? Ernesto Illy, president of illycaffè, a firm universally acknowledged has having sired 4 of the 7 most important inventions in the sector over the last 100 years, reconsiders the issue and puts forth an alternative point of view on t...

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Taking the right turn

Magazine -> #17 Serendipity

Serendipity isn’t yet a very familiar concept in the cultural sphere, is it? It mightn’t be, but what it refers to is very relevant to design and innovation in any sphere of activity, not only that of culture. How do you go about trying to be innovative? And can serendipity help? The best way to go about it is to look elsewhere. The beaten t...

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Sensitive city architecture

Magazine -> #19 Aequòpolis

The attraction of large urban areas and developing countries in particular obviously still exerts a very strong influence. Yet perhaps we can now assert that even at this stage, we have to rethink the concept of the megalopolis as being linked to the familiar phenomena of overpopulation and overcrowding.  Obviously, density has both positive and n...

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The city has a soul

Magazine -> #19 Aequòpolis

A city is like a life: it needs a soul. A city’s soul is its inhabitants, its recollections, its memory... and also a certain element of mystery.  A city without mystery is a dry city...loveless, emotionless. I think of a city as a face, like someone you want to see again, someone you want to love. Someone we might not get on with all the tim...

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    Martin Luther King

  • "Liberty is about our rights to question everything".

    Ai Wei Wei

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