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Quando il cibo diventa cultura
Di ritorno da San Patrignano (Rimini) dove ieri si è chiuso Squisito, posso dire che se illywords ha trattato il tema Conviviliaty non è un caso perchè il cibo è cultura. Ho visto passione in chi spiegava ai visitatori il proprio prodotto, ho seguito i corsi di the, cioccolato, caffè, che da secoli stanno accompagnando la storia dell'uomo e ...
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May 04, 2010 | Categories: Experiences, conviviality | Tags: coffee, culture, food, history, life, society | Leave A Comment »
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#10 Nomadic knowledge
Like coffee, wine has travelled a long way down the corridors of time and space, reaching far and distant lands from its place of origin. A cornerstone and source of wealth of many a civilisation along the course of history, it is a catalyst of social exchange like few others. Wine-making knowledge is extensive and manifold, for it entails knowing ...
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Apr 22, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: analysis, blending, caucasus, coffee, evolution, flavour, growing, history, knowledge, mario fregoni, mount ararat, opinion, selection, sensorial, taste | Leave A Comment »
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#25 Innovage
There are travel guides for almost any corner of the planet. None of these can tell us though what the world will be like tomorrow, or at least not until next year. That’s when Rough Guide to the Future by the British science writer Jon Turney will be available in bookstores.
What drove you to write such a book?
There’s not much fiction aro...
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Jan 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 1984, 2001 a space odyssey, ancestors, antarctic, apocalypse, armageddon, artificial intelligence, blade runner, cinema, climate, confucius, energy sources, evolution, fahrenheit 451, fears | Leave A Comment »
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#25 Innovage
“…that feeling we all have sometimes that everything we say or do is not our own, that we as people are only quotations from our environment, that we are carried along by the merciless stream of history and reality... the complications arise when one tries to give that feeling an identity. I do not think it can be done within a conventional nov...
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Jan 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: afraid, book, cinema, critic conscience, documentary, feeling, fiction, god twins, hamsun, historical figure, history, human complexity, identity, innovation, journalist | 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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#4 Passion
A quick review of the artistic passions, emotional drive, irresistible attractions and unmotivated fury of artists that are capable of making history.
Marina Abramovic and her boyfriend Ulay run in great strides towards each other, as if attracted by a magnet.
Their bodies slam into each other. They fall, they get up, they do it again and agai...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andy warhol, art, attraction, biennale, cezanne, desert, design, emile zola, emilio vedova, enthusiasm, experiencing, expressionist, factory, film, fitness | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
In front a cup of coffee.
For a company, the past is never just the past. It is an opportunity for growth, driving it to explore new directions. Ducati, one of the most famous motorbike manufacturers in the world, has opened a museum at its premises in Borgo Panigale (BO), to utilise its own “home made” resources. Motorbikes, engines, photog...
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Dec 04, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bikes, borgo panigale, communication, company, designs, ducati, engine, experiences, federico minoli, heritage, history, home made, innovations, italian, livio lodi | Leave A Comment »
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#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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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: background, brazil, children, communicating, community, creativity, designs, desire, dialogue, dimension, experiences, feel, fernando campana, firms, hand made | Leave A Comment »
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#23 Emotion and Surprise
First of all, is there a difference between the concept of excitement and surprise?
Put simply, a surprise is something that happens just once and is unlikely to happen again. Excitement, on the other hand, is something more complex, it might crop up again, and in theory it could last a lifetime. Surprise also has a powerful physical aspect – it...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: advertising, andy warhol, benjamin pardo, body, brand, chanel, channels, coco chanel, designers, difference, excitement, future, history, industrial, karl lagerfeld | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Sometimes I am asked to help other people to improve their listening skills. My profession exposes me to the risk of thinking of listening mainly as a subjective ability, something that can be trained, partly linked to personal predisposition.
But when I actually listen, and when listening becomes a tool necessary for a job in which you approach...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: approach, circumstances, claudio ondoli, cohesion, colourful, companion, company, fascinating, geography, history, intention, job, knowledge, landscapes, life | Leave A Comment »
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#9 Coopetition
Introduction by Angela Vettese, art critic and journalist.
A toy train emerges from the mouth of Jannis Kounellis. No, it's not a return to one's childhood. It's rather a way of acknowledging to what extent the great railroad age, the age that revolutionised freighting, the age when corn used to travel in jute sacks loaded in cars running on ste...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: beginning, childhood, disintegration, globalisation, greece, history, inspiration, jannis kounellis, landscape, nostalgia, painter, political, rome, tradition, western civilisation | Leave A Comment »
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#4 Passion
A person is what he is because he has both divine and contingent roots; the divine root, the one of the spirit and the soul, yields a sense that is beyond earthly reality, energy and meaningfulness, while the divine root relates to the history and experiences that the person develops and embodies during his lifetime. This, in short, is one of the p...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea illy, childhood, divine, dreams, energy, enthusiasm, experiences, history, lifetime, maturity, metaphor, myth, puer, real life, reality | Leave A Comment »
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#0 Experimentation and innovation
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN ARTIST LIKE YOURSELF AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD, EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE HISTORY OF SIMPLE THINGS?
The pattern of simple things is the same for everyone, I believe: it means doing things, feeling active, exploring nearby and far away places, coming to learn about the things that surround you, travelling to experience p...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, atmosphere, bars, cappuccino, civilisation, comfortable, different, enjoyement, entertainment, espresso, history, human beings, juice of life, kinds, life | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
illy will be present at the international art exhibition of the Venice Biennale for the fourth time.
THINK WITH YOUR SENSES, FEEL WITH YOUR MIND. ART IN THE PRESENT.
Is the title of the 52nd International Art Exhibition curated by Robert Storr and organised by the Venice Biennale chaired by Davide Croff. Installed at the Arsenale and Giardini, it...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: always, architecture exhibition, bank, biennale, bnl, bonuses, car, challenge, clear ideas, coach, core business, credibility, davide croff, emotion, emotional change | 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 »
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.