Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
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 [...]
Inhabiting the Mountain, Inhabiting the World
The working group formed by Gianluca Cepollaro, Jacopo Albasini (mountains), Umberto Anesi (government of the territory), Serena Curti (culture) and Ilaria Perusin and Paola Flor (landscape), and Maddalena Pellizzari (tourism-Dolomiti), met with Paolo Castelnovi to deepen the reflections begun in the winter months on the theme of ‘re-inhabiting the mountains’. [...]