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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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#27 The Culture of Listening
Is the “listening” aspect a feature of your work as an architect?
First of all I’d like to give an example. Italo Calvino, on the subject of hearing (or listening), told a story that for me is extremely significant. There was a powerful man who once became king. From that time on, he decided not to move from his throne in case someone physi...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: demagogic, desire, hearing, italo calvino, king, listening, massimiliano fuksas, natural, on the street, people, pleasure, shapes, story, symbolic, throne | Leave A Comment »
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#16 Beautiful and well made
I can’t help thinking of Carlo Petrini’s basic contention in his latest book, Good, clean and right. “If,” as he writes, “self-nourishment is an agricultural act, then production must be a gastronomic one.” What better way of expressing the osmotic relationship between the beautiful and the well made, which in gastronomy is tantamount t...
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Nov 20, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: be a cheese maker for a day, caciocavallo, carlo petrini, future of food, hybristai, mathias dahlgren, natural, oeno gastonomic, organic, ragusa, roberta corradin, sicily, stockholm, wine, yarra valley | Leave A Comment »
