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      11 Apr 2010

      From Mann to Hirst: Death in Venice

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      link: DAMIEN HIRST - Death in Venice | Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venezia - Palazzo Palumbo Fossati - 12 aprile - 30 luglio 2010 txt: Death in Venice - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. [...] Mann's original intention was to write about "passion as confusion and degradation", after having been fascinated by the true story of Goethe's love for 18-year-old Ulrike von Levetzow, which had led Goethe to write his Marienbad Elegy. The death of Gustav Mahler and Mann's interest in a boy during summer vacation were additional experiences occupying his thoughts. He used the story to illuminate certain convictions about the relationship between life and mind, with Gustav representing the intellectual. Mann was also influenced by Sigmund Freud and his views on dreams, as well as by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. He had visited Venice several times.
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      5 Apr 2010

      Chaos and harmony: Eric Lewis

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      video: Eric Lewis rocks the jazz world - TED Talks
      Eric Lewis, an astonishingly talented crossover jazz pianist -- seen by many for the first time at TED2009 - sets fire to the keys with his shattering rendition of Evanescence's chart-topper, "Going Under."
      via: techcrunch.com : NSFW: It’s Easier To Run, And Other Lessons That Entrepreneurs Can Learn From ELEW link: www.elewrockjazz.com [ted id=478]
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      27 Mar 2010

      Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Lezioni americane)

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      txt: Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Vintage Books edition) Commentary on Lightness
      Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium contains five memos, or personal testaments. The sixth was never written on paper. Each memo on lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity acts as a guideline for life and creativity. Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a book one should all read to endure a more satisfying life of clarity and simplicity. Although Calvino’s book was primarily written in regards to literature, his book can also relate to the fields of art and design. As in writing, design and typography should be light, clear, and simple while still maintaining a visually appealing and comprehensive story. Essentially, a designer and typographer convey to their audience “a story” that must be visually read and understood. Typography, design and writing portray messages, personalities, and hidden meanings for their audience in different ways but also much in the same vein.
      link: Italo Calvino - Six Memos for the Next Millennium - Harvard University Press book: Six Memos for the Next Millennium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86 (Vintage International) - amazon.com
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      26 Mar 2010

      Festival delle città impresa: (what) culture enriches (who of) us

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      txt: The Festival of the city-enterprise - www.festivaldellecittaimpresa.it A Festival that wants to tell the transformations of the North East and think about the future. The urban centres are the protagonists, the symbols of the industrial transformation that has taken place during the last decades. Today they are representative models of a constantly moving system, lived as an experimental place, together with the cities that are the symbols of the cultural life. A network event that takes place in some cities-enterprise which constitute the symbol of the transformation of the Venice area's economic and social fabric, and that will connect them to Verona, Venice and Trieste, symbols of the three region's cultural life in turn, where some key events will take place. Locations Rovereto (TN): The culture of sustainability - science and enterprise meet in Technopolis. Schio (VI): Reinvent the worlds: how art and culture can create new scenarios after the crisis. Union of the cities Camposampierese (PD): The networks of knowledge and communication. Montebelluna-Asolo (TV): Design as a competitive factor for the enterprise. Vittorio Veneto (TV): Spaces and landscape of a European capital: ideas for a new balance. Maniago (PN): The new cultural industries: the movie factor. Interland Udine (UD): The new "Marco Polo". Culture as a dialogue and exchange factor between the markets and peoples from East to West. link: The Festival of the city-enterprise program
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      24 Mar 2010

      The Future of Publishing

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      txt: PenguinGroup - The Future of Publishing on youtube.com
      This video was prepared by the UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books and produced by Khaki Films. Originally meant solely for a DK sales conference, the video was such a hit internally that it is now being shared externally. We hope you enjoy it (and make sure you watch it up to at least the halfway point, there's a surprise!). Read an interview with the creator of the video on the Penguin Blog: The clip was inspired by a video created by an Argentinian agency, Savaglio/TBWA entitled Truth
      [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weq_sHxghcg]
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      22 Mar 2010

      The Power of Biological Diversity

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      txt: United Nations declared 2010 International Year of Biodiversity
      You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals and plants, the places they live and their surrounding environments, all over the world. You rely on this diversity of life to provide you with the food, fuel, medicine and other essentials you simply cannot live without. Yet this rich diversity is being lost at a greatly accelerated rate because of human activities. This impoverishes us all and weakens the ability of the living systems, on which we depend, to resist growing threats such as climate change.
      link: Convention on Biological Diversity - www.cbd.int video: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity - Royal Ontario Museum on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AcpImIGgu8]
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      21 Mar 2010

      Designers and craftsmans: the Palladian lesson

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      A key aspect of the success of the style of Palladio was due to his direct knowledge of materials and construction techniques. From this base Palladio built his theoretical knowledge, his travels, his culture construction. He draws its villas and entrusts the construction to trusted foremen familiar with the rules of art. Design and craftsmanship. A theory that starts from practice, a practice that needs theory. [it] Una degli aspetti essenziali del successo dello stile di Palladio era dovuto alla conoscenza diretta dei materiali e delle tecniche costruttive. Da questa base Palladio costruisce le sue conoscenze teoriche, i suoi viaggi, la sua cultura della costruzione. Disegna le sue ville e affida la costruzione a capomastri fidati che conoscono a fondo le regole dell'arte. Design e artigianato. Una teoria che parte dalla pratica, una pratica che ha bisogno della teoria. link: Venice 2132 - Open Studio - www.fondazioneclaudiobuziol.org
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      16 Mar 2010

      Dire Poesia 2010 Vicenza

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      The second edition of "Dire Poesia" (Say poetry) will be held from 21 March to 7 May 2010 in Vicenza. The event is sponsored by the City of Vicenza Department of Cultural Affairs and Intesa Sanpaolo Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Workshop in Vicenza. The event, curated by Stefano Strazzabosco, will consist of nine meetings with some of the most important Italian and international contemporary poets. The places of the meetings - the Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Palace Chiericati, AB23, Officina d'arte contemporanea - have been selected to amplify the evocative power of the poetic word. txt: Dire Poesia 2010: Ecco il programma completo La seconda edizione della rassegna “Dire poesia” si terrà dal 21 marzo al 7 maggio 2010 a Vicenza. La manifestazione è promossa dall’Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Vicenza e da Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Beni Culturali in collaborazione con L’Officina arte contemporanea di Vicenza. L’iniziativa, curata da Stefano Strazzabosco, si articolerà in nove incontri che vedranno la partecipazione di alcuni tra i nomi piu’ importanti della poesia contemporanea italiana e internazionale. I luoghi degli incontri – le Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Palazzo Chiericati, AB23 e l’Officina arte contemporanea – sono stati selezionati per amplificare il potere evocativo della parola poetica. Programma: 21 marzo, ore 17.00 Titos Patrikios (introduce Filippomaria Pontani) – Palazzo Leoni Montanari 25 marzo, ore 18.00 Armando Romero (introduce Alessandro Mistrorigo) – Palazzo Leoni Montanari 6 aprile , ore 17.30 Dire poesia on/off: Ariadne Radi Cor - L’Officina Arte Contemporanea 9 aprile, ore 17.30 Dire poesia off: Alessandra Conte – Roberto Cogo – L’Officina Arte Contemporanea 16 aprile, ore 17.30 Poesia della migrazione: Mia Lecomte, Candelaria Romero, Božidar Stanišić (introduce Mia Lecomte) – Palazzo Chiericati 22 aprile, ore 18.00 Yang Lian (introduce Marta Nori) - Palazzo Chericati 28 aprile, ore 18.00 Edoardo Sanguineti – Stefano Scodanibbio – Palazzo Leoni Montanari 5 maggio, ore 18.00 Dire poesia on/off: Antonella Bukovaz con Hanna Preuss – AB23 7 maggio , ore 18.00 Patrizia Valduga (introduce Fabio Magro) - Palazzo Leoni Montanari informazioni: direpoesia@gmail.com - infocultura@comune.vicenza.it
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      13 Mar 2010

      A digital Googlenaissance

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      txt: A digital renaissance: partnering with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage
      The Renaissance, Europe's period of cultural, political and scientific rebirth, began in Florence around 600 years ago. At Google we're interested in a (small “r”) renaissance of a different kind — a digital one. Since the launch of Google Books, we’ve been working with libraries and publishers around the globe to bring more of the world's books to more readers around the globe. Any school child should be able to access the works of Petrarch, Dante or Vico (or, if they're so inclined, Machiavelli). In the case of these more famous authors, this is already largely possible, but what about the work of Guglielmo il Giuggiola or Coluccio Salutati? We want all of the great literature and writings of Italy to be accessible to the general public.
      links: - MiBAC / Google: Conferenza Stampa di presentazione di uno storico accordo - Europeana
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      27 Feb 2010

      OECD study about Venice and climate change

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      txt: OECD Regional development Working Papers: Competitive Cities and Climate Change (pdf, 2Mb, English)
      Cities are part of the climate change problem, but they are also a key part of the solution. This report offers a comprehensive analysis of how cities and metropolitan regions can change the way we think about responding to climate change. Cities consume the vast majority of global energy and are therefore major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the exposed infrastructure and prevalent coastal location of many cities makes them common targets for climate change impacts such as sea level rise and fiercer storms. This report illustrates how local involvement through “climate-conscious” urban planning and management can help achieve national climate goals and minimise tradeoffs between environmental and economic priorities. Six main chapters analyse the link between urbanisation, energy use and CO2 emissions; assess the potential contribution of local policies in reducing global energy demand and the trade-offs between economic and environmental objectives at the local scale; discuss complementary and mutually reinforcing policies such as the combination of compact growth policies with those that improve mass transit linkages; and evaluate a number of tools, including the “greening” of existing fiscal policies, financing arrangements to combat climate change at the local level, and green innovation and jobs programmes. One of the main messages of this report is that urban policies (e.g. densification or congestion charges) can complement global climate policies (e.g. a carbon tax) by reducing global energy demand, CO2 emissions and the overall abatement costs of reducing carbon emissions. To inform the groundswell of local climate change action planning, the report highlights best practices principally from OECD member countries but also from certain non-member countries.
      video: Sigur Ros - Hljomalind on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEE9AW94Hs]
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