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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
Time and rhythm are an integral part of modern life and they can be experienced either as incentives to improve or as reasons for dissatisfaction. Today, our attention is turned to the well being of our social system: there is clear evidence of this in science, technology and culture, but the objective is not always attained in a harmonised and hom...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea illy, attention, companies, confidence, crisis, culture, dissatisfaction, dynamics, future, greed, homogeneous, information, knowledge, life, mankind | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
Cappellini is almost always the main actor to every major design "event". The latest edition of the Furniture Exhibition in Milan, but mostly the "Side Events to the Exhibition", confirmed how important "Creating Opportunities" is for the Cappellini company and its goals.
There are two reasons, in particular, why "Creating Opportunities" is fundam...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: actor, author, civil, communication, companies, company, creating, cultural, design, event, exhibition, furniture, giulio cappellini, milan, opportunities | Leave A Comment »
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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
“My wardrobes are packed, I don’t know where to keep my clothes anymore; and yet, I still feel as if I have nothing to wear.”
I’ve happened to hear people saying this sentence or something very similar to it. It can be understood in different ways: “I have a lot and it’s still not enough” or “I don’t have the right clothes to wea...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: advisors, andrea illy, choice, clothes, companies, decisionmaking, independent, internet, monday, non profit, profit, responsability, saturday, values, wardrobes | Leave A Comment »
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#19 Aequòpolis
The pre-industrial city was one in which classes mingled, where the aristocrats were on one floor, the middle class on another, and the working class on yet another, all in the same building.
With the advent of the industrialised society, there was a shift in the functions of each social class. This led to the working class ghettos, upper class ...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aristocrats, assisi, cities, classes, companies, congestion, decentralisation, domenico de masi, free time, functional city, ghettos, happy city, inhabitants, luxuries, manchester | Leave A Comment »
