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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: Conviviality, Experiences | Tags: coffee, culture, food, history, life, society | Leave A Comment »
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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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#14 Refresh
Bright red. What does it mean? The Communists’ flag and the red carpet the Royal family walks on, a pool of fresh blood after a car accident and the body of a Ferrari?
What language do I refer to, which part of my own vocabulary or that established over the history of images must I look for, to understand what a colour can tell me?
Here, in o...
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Jan 24, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: always on, angela vettese, annette messager, antoni muntadas, art, artist, biennale, cherokee, estote parati, jimmie durham, re fresh, red, society, venice | Leave A Comment »
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#15 Techno-ecology
The sorry state in which our planet has come to find itself and the far from comforting forecasts as to energy source availability and air, water and soil pollution have risen awareness as to the need to put a stop to the ongoing use and abuse of natural resources.
In the late eighties a new concept, sustainable development, used for the first t...
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Jan 17, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: carlo vezzoli, cunsumption models, design, development, eco efficient, energy, enviroment, equity principle, future, hyper efficiency, impact, innovation, lightness, natural resources, non toxicity | Leave A Comment »
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#16 Beautiful and well made
We analyse the balance between beauty and goodness in the contemporary art world with Rosina Gómez Baeza, Director of the International Art Fair ARCO in Madrid.
We understand Arco’s values to be the search for quality, internationality and the creation of heritage. Do you believe there is a balance between beauty and goodness in the business ...
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Jan 10, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: arco, art, artist, artwork, barbara martinez, fair, madrid, rosina gomez baeza, society, spain | Leave A Comment »
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#19 Aequòpolis
Today, in 2007 (yes, 2007 is fast approaching), for the first time in the history of mankind, more than 50% of the population lives in cities. Just a century ago, when our great-grandparents or grandparents were alive, a few generations back, 90% lived in the countryside, and only 10% in cities. A transformation on a global scale. On an astronomica...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: a tale of two cities, amsterdam, architects, architecture, bangkok, biennale, buildings, cairo, charles dickens, cities, complexity, countryside, democracy, ecological, future | Leave A Comment »
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#26 Re-Evaluate The Error
In your experience, how have errors affected your professional practice and what’s your attitude towards making mistakes?
Errors can critically affect the outcome of any work, but they’re also an opportunity for reviewing consolidated practices and routine ways of doing things. As such, they can be very liberating, obliging us to make new deci...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: a 100 chairs in a 100 days, architect, blunders, chairs, decisions, design, enzo mari, error, errors, experiences, gio ponti, hans hollein, learn, london, martino gamper | 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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#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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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Is there any correspondence between the pseudo needs of a consumer and a visitor's needs?
Visitors do not have pseudo needs but rather unexpressed or repressed needs, if any; on the contrary, consumers almost always have needs that are falsely generated by the external impulses of the economic and social context. To the world of consumption, visi...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: charles ray, francesco bonami, imagination, romaticism, society | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
There’s a famous photograph by Ugo Mulas showing a picture by Michelangelo Pistoletto that reflects the viewer’s image. It’s a masterful shot consonant with the picture’s subject matter, a work of art itself and a difficult work at that precisely because it acts like a mirror. It’s a work whose photographic rendition requires some degree ...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: american, andy warhol, art, augustine, camera, frank stella, itself, method, michelangelo pistoletto, mirror, motive, outcome, photo, photograph, photographer | 1 Comment »
