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#21 Senti-mentally
Over the years, I’ve developed the firm belief that there are similarities between the purpose of a company’s life and that of an individual. They both aspire to that kind of happiness which Aristotle called “eudaimonia”, the perfect union between physical and intellectual pleasures. I think that if this idea can apply to all businesses, it...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: antonio damasio, aristotle, beautiful, business, cash, coffee, company, consumers, developing, emotion, excellence, growth, heart, illy, intellectual | 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 In any case, it’s a word that has been outdated by what is now called globa...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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#22 Kaizen
What meaning do you give to the word kaizen? Is there any link between your artistic work and this concept?
Kaizen means improvement, but as an artist I don’t pay much heed to this word, because of its industrial connotations. In this context, the word kaizen can be explained in terms of a succession of small changes, designed to simplify and i...
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Nov 25, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andy warhol, art, capitalist concept, cars, changes, connections, costs, destry, environment, europe, expression, growth, hiroshi sugimoto, improve, industrial production | Leave A Comment »
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#19 Aequòpolis
A thousand futures, each one unique. In my view, the big mistake that is currently insinuating itself is the idea that every kind of growth is parallel to another kind. This is part of a semantic confusion affecting all languages nowadays. Today, there is no single language which has the courage to re-evaluate itself completely.
Town planning is...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea branzi, basle, bulldog, chaos, cities are authentic, cities of tomorrow, colorful people, diveristy, dogs, energy, ethnic and human culture, growth, historic density, language of the city, languages | Leave A Comment »
