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#6 Orientation
illy offers its support to Scritture Giovani and the Festivaletteratura Mantova with the aim of providing opportunities, stimulating discussion and encouraging dialogue.
“Do you think one is willing to cross conventional boundary lines when their objectives that lies beyond is clear?”
Border crossing is actually easier tackled when what lie...
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Dec 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: british, dialogue, discussion, dogs, europe, festival, festivaletteratura, greeks, london, loose, mantova, opportunities, scritture giovani, sevillians | Leave A Comment »
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#3 Weaving relations
Milan, the world capital of fashion and design. This link between fashion and design seems to merge the two disciplines, blending their environments and dynamics. There is one person, however, who wants to keep them well separated, critiquing his own circle of designers: Enzo Mari. First and foremost an artist, and then a designer at international ...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, commercial, commodity, cycle, daily, design, designers, enzo mari, failure, fashion, habits, imagination, life, marketing, milan | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
Cappellini is almost always the main actor to every major design "event". The latest edition of the Furniture Exhibition in Milan, but mostly the "Side Events to the Exhibition", confirmed how important "Creating Opportunities" is for the Cappellini company and its goals.
There are two reasons, in particular, why "Creating Opportunities" is fundam...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: actor, author, civil, communication, companies, company, creating, cultural, design, event, exhibition, furniture, giulio cappellini, milan, opportunities | 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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#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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#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 »
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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 »
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.