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Who was your table companion when...
I attend a lot of business dinners in a year. Perhaps too many. I have a technique. I smile…
Smiling and nodding towards my left and right companions, I aim not be deeply involved in various conversations.
Usually I find myself with loquacious table companions, and I can also eat.
Only once I flaunted my learning and I addressed a hands...
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Apr 14, 2010 | Categories: Conviviality, Experiences | Tags: biennale, business, experience, food, people, society, venice | 3 Comments »
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#13 Conscious project
Each second that passes means three more people are living on our planet.
The demographic explosion - that has taken the world's population from 1.6 billion people at the beginning of the twentieth century to 6.12 billion at the start of the new millennium - is accelerating at an alarming rate, seriously threatening the planet's survival. The ec...
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Feb 07, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea illy, demographic, economy, konrad lorenz, opinion, people, voltaire | Leave A Comment »
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Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus Academy
We're off to a great start on Issue 28 at Domus Academy in Milan!
The theme of this issue will be conversations, relationships, conviviality... whether inside our homes or beyond. And what is one of the most delightful situations for creating smart conversation? At the table of course... When we eat, preferably over some good food…
The ...
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Feb 05, 2010 | Categories: Conviviality, Design, Students | Tags: creativity, culture, design, domus academy, food, life, people, project, roberta corradin, school, workshop, world | Leave A Comment »
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#19 Aequòpolis
In the words of economist Jeremy Rifkin: “In 2007 more than half of the world’s population will live in cities”. I would add that there is no alternative. More than just large dormitories, mega-cities are places which attract the greatest investments in order to create and maintain the structures that guarantee the fundamental aspects of thei...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aggression, andrea illy, architects, cafe, cities, coffee, cosmopolitan, culture, enviroment, espressamente, healthcare, howard schulz, illycaffe, intolerance, jeremy rifkin | Leave A Comment »
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#4 Passion
Vega, 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...
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Dec 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ability, business, connective, contamination, creative, creativity, era, federico zerbo, hyper, innovations, inventors, italian, italy, knowledge, liasons | 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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#3 Weaving relations
LUCEPLAN designs, manufactures and markets lighting appliances for residences, offices, community, government and agency buildings, indoor and outdoor environments.
Luceplan's adventure was born from the design-oriented spirit of three young architects, among whom is Riccardo Sarfatti, who in 1978 decided to pursue the goal of "beautiful homes for...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: architects, art, beautiful, beauty, complexity, creativity, design, designs, emotions, experiences, homes, idea, indoor, innovation, lamps | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
Experimentation, innovation and creation are everything. Such a statement presents a comprehensive basis for things which we encounter in our everyday life, which people belonging to various cultures and classes all around the world meet in their everyday life.
The relationship between content and form, and the aesthetic disunity of an ordinary da...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aestethic, circle, clothes, communication, content, creation, cultures, design, everyday, experimentation, form, globally, graphic, graphic design, influence | Leave A Comment »
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#0 Experimentation and innovation
In Coppola's Apocalypse Now, when searching the jungle for the maverick commander Kurts, the man sent to hunt him down describes a brilliant mission Kurtz had led, "He just thought it up and did it. They were going to get him framed to the floorboards for that one until the press got hold it and promoted him to Colonel."
The spirit of creative b...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: act, apocalypse now, artists, battles, buckminster fuller, challenge, colonel, commander, confidence, coppola, creative, designers, dreaming, dreamland, enrich | Leave A Comment »
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Gente che non se la tira*
Triennale di Milano, presentazione libro CAMPARISODA.
L'aperitivo dell'arte veloce Futurista, Corraini Edizioni.
Steven Guarnaccia (illywords#14, Parsons school N.Y ) tra il designer Matteo Ragni e Alessandro Mendini stimola la battuta di Beppe Finessi :" Matteo, come diciamo a Milano, e' uno che non se la tira"!
Ma e' proprio vero che...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Design, Exhibitions | Tags: art, curiosity, ideas, people, project | 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
In his essay "How to write a dissertation", Umberto Eco recommends that students avoid playing the part of the solitary genius holed up in their room, writing. He suggests that we should always discuss things with others, so our work can be read and criticised.
Over the years, this warning has been a constant thorn in my side. I always try to work...
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Dec 04, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: acceptable, approach, artist, at home, best, black, book, creative, culture, genius, idea, job, luca campigotto, maestros, modus operandi | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
In front a cup of coffee.
Home-made: where did your creative career start, and how much has it been influenced by your roots?
I was born on an island, somewhere between here and elsewhere, between solid ground and the infinite horizons that stretch beyond the seas.
When you grow up on an island, you learn to discover the world around you, pa...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ability, alghero, antonio marras, atmospheres, career, city, clothes, collection, concept, creative, cultures, dessert, discover, experience, honey | 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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#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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#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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#13 Conscious project
You were involved in the "50th Biennale" in Venice; in your opinion, what relevance and meaning do such events have in developing a new awareness/sensibility in the audience?
I think that it is essential that events like this exist; they give some kind of overview on what is happening in art at the moment. We might like one biennale better than t...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, artworks, biennale, coca cola, conscience, conteporary, contexts, contradictions, design, elite, entertainment, female, france, global artist, homogenized | Leave A Comment »
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#10 Nomadic knowledge
How much, do you feel, does literature contribute to the diffusion of knowledge?
In so far as they represent possible ways of living, mirrors in which to view ourselves, yardsticks that can help us in making choices and taking decisions, works of literature contribute to disseminating knowledge. The make-believe world of literature suggests that ...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: achei, article, artist, beppe fenoglio, book, bruno gambarotta, carlo emilio gadda, carlo lucarelli, community, dcisions, digital, experience, fiat, fragments, frame | Leave A Comment »
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#8 Place, not place
The first issue of Domus was published by Gio Ponti in 1928. Since then it has followed and borne witness to the evolution in the field of architecture and design. Today, Stefano Boeri, an Italian, has taken over the magazine’s editorship from the Londoner, Deyan Sudjic. The change was more than enough to start pundits claiming that the Milan-bas...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: amusements, attractions, copies, domus, duplication, environment, home, imitation, interact, living, nonplace, objects, office, original, outlets | Leave A Comment »
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#7 Chaos
There’s a lot of talk nowadays about the sustainability of corporate enterprise. Corporations operate in a natural context. They bring about changes in the environment and upset the natural balance, while trying to impose their own. What kind of governance can there be for this sort of activity?
Corporations live off nature. It’s essential tha...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: balance, changes, copernican revolution, damages, density, disorder, disruptive, environment, grown, humanity, humanoids, ideals, individual, last judgement, lifegate | 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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#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 »
