Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
When the going gets tough…The development project to the earthquake test
Where it was as it will be: the motto of Symbola's 2017 seminar opens to the future without mortgaging it and motivates, for a while yet, the thousands of local initiatives that are, however, struggling to get out of the endless emergency and the immense fatigue imposed by the complexity [...]
Centers? Historic?
After 30 years behind the scenes, the issue of historic city centers returns to the forefront, because on the ground no battle is won forever and again threats of violent change loom over the heart of Italian cities. For as always the balance is lacking: too much and too little [...]
Fishermen wanted for unused nets
By now, there is no conference that does not praise synergies, understandings between actors, but experiences where stable connections are really activated, between complementary operators spread throughout the territory, networks of fishermen who value oysters and not only pearls, are struggling to take hold. Playing Bridge, we would be at [...]
Landscape and art in the time of the smartphone
When sensitivity goes through the 4 inch format. New professions to build bridges between practices of virtual reality and practices of living in the physical world. To think wrong is to sin but often to get it right, said the master. So great pessimistic thinkers of the 20th century sniffed [...]
Every Day is Landscape Day
Landscape was celebrated on March 14, with many initiatives, but in particular by rewarding in Rome those who have designed and those who have managed the most interesting initiatives in recent years, almost always at low cost and high participation. People who constitute an extraordinary, widespread and unexpected resource that [...]