Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Culture: closed for inventory
A political article for Foundations Journal 2018, in the face of the US elections and Trump's policies. Official culture , including contemporary culture has to come to terms with the general disinterest in which it moves. We need to be able to take a fresh look at where new (old) [...]
State of (infra)facilities
The causes of the Genoa disaster are very deep and point to devastating cracks in the role of the state as a strategic entrepreneur, a role to which we have been accustomed since the unification of Italy but which has now lost its sail and rudder. The changes needed to [...]
The 4 Cs of the culture we need: criticism, cooperation, conservation, cuisine
In personal culture, the sequence of criticism, cooperation, conservation is natural. To reap the synergetic fruit of these stages of culture, one must work together, as in a kitchen. 68 caught me mature. I had been matured the year before, with a three-hour interrogation on nine complex subjects: a rite [...]
The difficult relay between Landscape and Culture
Can the recognition of Landscape be assumed in a fundamental political role, one of support and communication for political decisions and affiliations, a role hitherto reserved for Culture as a whole, but little practised? Perhaps so. But on condition that this role for Landscape is recognised by the institutional machine [...]
Abandonment: let’s not waste a momentous opportunity
The crisis of the rural world, of its sustainability and sobriety, leads to new inhabitants of less accessible areas and the prospect of a new way of living, a narrow unexplored path between the risk of isolation and that of definitive unsustainability The beaches were dotted with overturned boats, which [...]