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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
illywords at Bocconi University
-> illywords at Bocconi UniversityMilan, 2.30 p.m., Bocconi University: Communication and Events Management course. I have just come out of the presentation that Carlo Bach, art director of illywords, and I were here to give. We presented the last issue, "Conviviality". There were more than 30 students inside and their coordinator, Lia Zarantonello. I do not know if we have been...
continue..Global thinking
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeIn the wide web world knowledge is more dynamic than ever. We discussed the issue and more with Roberto Galimberti, President of Etnoteam, Italy’s leading webdesign and information and communications technology company. To what extent is the net a source of new knowledge? Our time is often referred to as the “Age of Cognition”. What’s m...
continue..Wine in evolution
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeLike 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 ...
continue..Refresh America
Magazine -> #14 RefreshThe 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...
continue..Rough Guide to the future
Magazine -> #25 InnovageThere 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...
continue..School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication
Magazine -> #25 InnovageThe School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication is a part of the University of the Arts, London, Europe’s largest university for art, design, fashion, communication and the performing arts. It is a collegiate university comprising the six London Art Colleges; Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art and...
continue..Research between man and business
Magazine -> #4 PassionVega, the science and technology park, provides potential national and international investors in Venice with the necessary support, fostering collaboration between economic operators and encouraging innovative firms to set up their main offices in the historic center of Venice and in the nearby mainland. Is research addressed to people or busin...
continue..Information blackout
Magazine -> #14 Refresh“Upgrade”, in the sense of bringing up to date, of refreshing one’s knowledge, practices and style, seems to be the catchword of the moment. One’s very survival seems to depend on it! But it’s an imperative that induces a sense of anxiety at the thought of being out-of-step; of being left behind; of redundancy. It’s a sense of anxiety ...
continue..The opinion
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeHere’s a piece of news by the press that’s really digital food for thought: “sharing know-how was akin to blasphemy to Bill Gates; now he doesn’t have any alternative but to share”. It’s a radically new outlook, a complete turn around in the strategy so far pursued by the man, whose company’s cuttingedge on the global market depended...
continue..Escher, the multiple artist
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeKnowledge is always on the move, more than ever an exploratory practice. It scours its way through territories, comes alive in its relationship with others, and is especially enriched when the lore and learning in one field manage to cut across disciplinary borders and meet up with those in other fields. The works of M.C. Escher, a Dutch graphic...
continue..A starspangled life
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeMargherita Hack is virtually a youngster out to discover the world. There’s not an article dealing with her, though, that fails to underscore her chronological age of eightytwo. Probably it’s because the interviewer is amazed to find a person whose curiosity and wit are undimmed and indeed as redoubtable as ever. An astrophysicist of internat...
continue..Experience
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationI remember the first designs we used to prepare at Central Saint Martins College, when the briefs (author's note: design instructions) consisted of threefour words randomly picked by our tutors. We would start working in small groups, not knowing each other: at that stage it was impossible to have any prejudices or dislikes. For the same reason, th...
continue..City: a history book
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisObviously, the imagination feeds on knowledge. You need to know things before you can imagine them. This is where it comes in handy to read books about that concentrated mass of human history: cities. In Europe, large cities are usually unsuitable, even to accommodate modernity. Even in a metropolis like London or Paris, where large avenues were ...
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