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#13 Conscious project
Formerly professor at Cambridge and currently Full Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence, the historian Paul Ginsborg is an important point of reference for the world of socially committed voluntary and charitable organisations. It's a world that includes a vast number of persons who all feel the need to actively ...
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Feb 07, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 911, blair, book, business, consumer, consumption, corporations, economic, economy, family, fiat, financial, florence, historian, internet | Leave A Comment »
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#8 Place, not place
On the one hand a family of entrepreneurs that believes in sustainable development, and a man who has given his art over to the same idea on the other. The family goes by the name of Illy and the man by that of Sebastião Salgado.
Salgado’s views were recorded by Anna Illy Belci on 18 December 2003 on site in the Karnatak district.
The lands ...
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Feb 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: anna illy belci, brazil, coffee, ethiopia, family, growers, guatemala, illy, india, journey, karnatak, lands, plantations, sebastiao salgado, sustainable | Leave A Comment »
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#25 Innovage
Before being a label, Pucci is first and foremost the name of a family, and what a family! We’re talking about history – almost a thousand years of it – and about a cutting-edge business enterprise based in the family’s historical mansion. Emilio Pucci’s inspired and visionary drawings are simply spellbinding, as acknowledged worldwide. N...
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Jan 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aviation, beauty, carpets, challenge, colours, contemporary, creative, cultural, culture, decoration, designer, dressing, emilio, empire, faberge | Leave A Comment »
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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Swarovski, 14,000 employees, revenue 1.67 billion euro, but also 800 events organised every year in Italy alone. Not only an economic organism, but also a conveyor of culture.
How does it feel today to be defined as a multinational company? Proud or flattered?
Uneasy. In any case, it’s a word that has been outdated by what is now called globa...
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Dec 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: awareness, beauty, company, cost, cost of life, countries, dna, economic, effort, emotions, environmental, ethic, events, exhibitions, expectations | Leave A Comment »
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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Amedei is the courage to pursue a dream. It is a new generation of chocolate producers with the know-how that was passed down from a family who processes confectionery raw materials, with a dream that was inherited from grandmother Amedei, a Tuscany-born woman who was fond of cooking, flavours and taste.
“I can resist everything except temptat...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: additives, alessio tessieri, amedei, breakeven, chocolate, cocoa, cru, cuvee, diversity, dream, easter egg, family, flavours, hindrances, idea | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
“What the hell is it?”. American historian and writer Paul Collins’ literary travels, published in Italy by Adelphi, usually start from this question, which struck him when he came across some oddity found in an old book. A cultured, meticulous curiosity rooted in the need to understand what has been buried in and by history. To mark a passio...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aberration, abilities, autism, autistic people, beta testing, book, characters, company, curiosity, exploration, family, feelings, genetic and societal forces, history, humanity | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
Your short stories frame the fascinating even if painful contrast between tradition and modernity. Do you recognise yourself in this contrast?
India is a very old culture, and the eternal continuum between tradition, the past, and the present is something that is present in all Indians. There is no clear defining line that separates the two; India...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bangalore, children, conflict, contrast, culture, everyday, experience, explore, family, human, india, indians, lavanya sankaran, life, literature | Leave A Comment »
