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After a successful 2008 edition, attended by a total audience of 34.000, the Festival of the Mind, directed by Julie Cogoli , ITS will hold in Sarzana from Sept 6th edition. 4-6, 2009.
The first European event to be Entirely devoted to creativity and Its processes , the Festival della Mente, pr omoted by Fondazione Carispe and by the City of di Sarzana , will bring together writers and linguists, artists and musicians, architects and designers, psychologists and psychoanalysts, mathematicians and historians, actors and chefs scientists and philosophers from Italy and abroad—all with an original contribution to offer regarding the nature of creativity, this most valued human ability. The Festival della Mente invites all participants to share in this project by contributing a talk, a performance, a frontal lecture, or a new and original workshop. All participants, in other terms, come here to tell not only what, but first and foremost how and why.
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The program of the 6th edition includes over 60 events between lectures, performances, meetings, readings, as well as workshops dedicated to children and teenagers .
After last year’s amazing success, the approfonditaMente series of events will be back with its numerus clausus lecture-workshops, greatly appreciated by our audience for offering a close and effective interaction with speakers. This year, approfonditaMente will deal with the following subjects: ethno-psychiatry; urban ethics and aesthetics; the ethology of plants; design and its functions (or non-functions); the power of music; the enigma of inspiration; the mind and walking.
Following is a list of participants in the Festival’s 6th edition : the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza; the writer Luis Sepùlveda together with the English scholar Bruno Arpaia; Semir Zeki, neuroscientist; Eugenio Borgna, psychiatrist; the Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld together with the critic Ranieri Polese; ; Intesa Sanpaolo CEO Corrado Passera; Piero Coppo, neuro-psychiatrist; philosophers Roberta De Monticelli and Carlo Sini; historians Alessandro Barbero and Adriano Prosperi; the popular Italian writer Stefano Benni with Umberto Petrin at the piano; Carlo Petrini, the founder of SlowFood; the mathematician Piergiorgio Odifreddi; Marco Romano, architect and urban planner; Miriam Mafai, journalist and essay writer; playwright and storyteller Luca Scarlini; Franco Raggi, architect and designer; Antonio Perazzi, garden designer; the author and critic Giuseppe Montesano with Anna Bonaiuto, one Italy’s leading stage actresses; Stefano Bartezzaghi, the semiologist who studies puzzles, with the composer Carlo Boccadoro and with Davide Tortorella, TV author; Luigi Zoja, psychoanalyst; Alberto Casadei, literary historian; chef Davide Oldani with writer and journalist Camilla Baresani; the prominent linguist Luca Serianni; Francesco Bonami, art critic; sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno; Giovanni Filocamo, mathematician; the judge Gherardo Colombo, now retired, with the author Anna Sarfatti; art critic Franck Maubert with the philosopher Stefano Zecchi; Antonio Sciortino, the editor of ‘Famiglia Cristiana’, with Marco Politi, commentator for ‘la Repubblica’; psychotherapist Andrea Bocconi with Claudio Visentin, the founder of the ‘Travel School’.
. After a successful 2008 edition, attended by a total audience of 34.000, the Festival of the Mind, directed by Julie Cogoli , ITS will hold in Sarzana from Sept 6th edition. 4-6, 2009.
The first European event to be Entirely devoted to creativity and Its processes , the Festival della Mente, pr omoted by Fondazione Carispe and by the City of di Sarzana , will bring together writers and linguists, artists and musicians, architects and designers, psychologists and psychoanalysts, mathematicians and historians, actors and chefs scientists and philosophers from Italy and abroad—all with an original contribution to offer regarding the nature of creativity, this most valued human ability. The Festival della Mente invites all participants to share in this project by contributing a talk, a performance, a frontal lecture, or a new and original workshop. All participants, in other terms, come here to tell not only what, but first and foremost how and why.
DOWNLOAD COMPLETE PROGRAM IN PDF FORMAT
The program of the 6th edition includes over 60 events between lectures, performances, meetings, readings, as well as workshops dedicated to children and teenagers .
After last year’s amazing success, the approfonditaMente series of events will be back with its numerus clausus lecture-workshops, greatly appreciated by our audience for offering a close and effective interaction with speakers. This year, approfonditaMente will deal with the following subjects: ethno-psychiatry; urban ethics and aesthetics; the ethology of plants; design and its functions (or non-functions); the power of music; the enigma of inspiration; the mind and walking.
Following is a list of participants in the Festival’s 6th edition : the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza; the writer Luis Sepùlveda together with the English scholar Bruno Arpaia; Semir Zeki, neuroscientist; Eugenio Borgna, psychiatrist; the Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld together with the critic Ranieri Polese; ; Intesa Sanpaolo CEO Corrado Passera; Piero Coppo, neuro-psychiatrist; philosophers Roberta De Monticelli and Carlo Sini; historians Alessandro Barbero and Adriano Prosperi; the popular Italian writer Stefano Benni with Umberto Petrin at the piano; Carlo Petrini, the founder of SlowFood; the mathematician Piergiorgio Odifreddi; Marco Romano, architect and urban planner; Miriam Mafai, journalist and essay writer; playwright and storyteller Luca Scarlini; Franco Raggi, architect and designer; Antonio Perazzi, garden designer; the author and critic Giuseppe Montesano with Anna Bonaiuto, one Italy’s leading stage actresses; Stefano Bartezzaghi, the semiologist who studies puzzles, with the composer Carlo Boccadoro and with Davide Tortorella, TV author; Luigi Zoja, psychoanalyst; Alberto Casadei, literary historian; chef Davide Oldani with writer and journalist Camilla Baresani; the prominent linguist Luca Serianni; Francesco Bonami, art critic; sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno; Giovanni Filocamo, mathematician; the judge Gherardo Colombo, now retired, with the author Anna Sarfatti; art critic Franck Maubert with the philosopher Stefano Zecchi; Antonio Sciortino, the editor of ‘Famiglia Cristiana’, with Marco Politi, commentator for ‘la Repubblica’; psychotherapist Andrea Bocconi with Claudio Visentin, the founder of the ‘Travel School’.
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