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#6 Orientation
La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel is where the house of Girare-Perregaux has been making timepieces since 1791. Master watchmakers capable of fully designing, developing, tooling and assembling each and every cog and wheel, spring and gear right through to the finished, working product are few and far between: Girard-Perregaux is ...
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Dec 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aeroplanes, back, canton, commodity, design, destination, digital, display, electronic, events, feeling, flux, gadget, gear, girare perregaux | Leave A Comment »
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#2 Creating Opportunities
Four young writers talking about writing's timetables and scoreboards.
WHEN DO YOU WRITE, IN YOUR DAILY LIFE? DO YOU CUT OUT A FIXED PERIOD OR DOES WRITING END UP MERGING WITH YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES?
Davide Longo - I'm a teacher and during the school year I write very little, a couple of novels at the most, something for the radio, I help out ...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: character, end, european, ideas, mind, notebook, novel, scritture giovani, sensations, stories, story, suggestions, title, writers, writing | 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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#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 »
