Science, art and information meet in Udine

Udine – presented the first edition of Mind Connection festival Organized by Udine University Thursday 8th to Saturday 10th and Thursday 15th to Saturday 17th June: in the calendar there 22 meetings and theatrical performancesAnd 75 characters From the world of science, art and information who take turns on stage Topo Wasserman’s Palace, at Via Gemona 92 in UdineWhere the event will take place.

Six days Where the festival calls on all citizens and the university community to read reality through the intersection of knowledge, disciplines, viewpoints and points of view, calling on science to confront the present in continuous movement and continuous transformation. An interdisciplinary view to provide a clear, open, and transparent overview of some of today’s most pressing issues: climate change, the digital revolution, work, health, the demographic crisis, rights, and social media. Because, as we read in the introduction to the program, “every company is distinguished by its collective intelligence and ability to plan for its future: a constant challenge that requires knowledge, awareness and responsibility on the part of all.”

All festival events are free.

The Collective Minds Festival was born. From the idea of the multiverse (multiversoweb.it) e From the University’s Interdisciplinary Observatory. The program has been defined and developed before A committee coordination formed by Monica Annis, Sonia De Marchi, Andrea Locatello, Laura Morandini, Maria Cristina Nicoli, Elisabetta Scarton, Norma Zamparo.

“The festival is one of the three important initiatives through which the university wants to strengthen its role as a factor in the economic, social and cultural development of the region,” explains the university president. Robert Benton -. This commitment is achieved through strong interaction with the productive economic system, open and constructive dialogue with local institutions, and confrontation with citizens through a common educational path. The festival fits into this latter trend which, following the common thread of interdisciplinarity, wants to compare different knowledges to address crucial problems of common concern to society. The aim, on the one hand, is to stimulate an interdisciplinary approach among university researchers on complex issues, and through popular language, supported by the presence of many other authoritative experts, to draw the public, to whom these discussions are intended, to think. and absorb its suggestions.

“During the festival – he confirms Elizabeth Scarton, Rector’s Delegate for Public Engagement – , a senior representation of professors of the University of Udine, supported by colleagues and specialists from other universities and research centers, will inform the public about their research and engage them in receiving observations, views, concerns, trying to answer or fantasize and building new perspectives together. The university does not want to be a custodian of an exclusive culture, but to start participating in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. the public participation It is, in fact, an articulated set of cultural and scientific publishing activities in which researchers and the public interact.”

The official opening will take place Thursday, June 8th at 9 p.m With a meeting of the “Culture of the Common Good?” Where the president of the university will speak Robert BentonDirector of the Feltrinelli Foundation Maximilian Tarantino President of the Friuli Foundation Giuseppe Morandinisupervised by Paolo Musangini, Director of Messaggero Veneto. But the festival meetings will actually start on the 15th when Brunetto Lotti will argue with Andrea GambasiAnd Lisa Paravan And Silvano Taglegambi on “Approaching Science: Interdisciplinary Methods, Problems, and Practices” and then continue the 5 p.m. with “Globalization: An Interdisciplinary Approach” with Nicholas Gasparro in conversation with Gianluca ForestiAnd Sergio Papa And Jaya PeriniWhile at exactly 7 pm, a date with photography and the process that leads to the birth of a work of art with it Francis Petasio to which he compares Andrea Pinotti and Moira Ricci And Roberta Valtorta.

The environment, climate and man’s relationship with nature will be the protagonists of the meetings Friday, June 9th. It starts at 11 with an in-depth analysis of the climate crisis, one of the topics most true to new generations, possible solutions, Alessandro Perisotti talk with Massimo Bernardi, Anna Postorino And Lorenzo Velotti. The use of resources in a perspective that is more respectful of the natural environment and the social context will be the theme of the meeting, scheduled for 5 pm, “The essence of things: forms of the world to come” Lorenzo Federizzi, Beno Albrecht And Theodore Valens. at 19 Francesco Marangon with Roberto Battiston and Andrea Stead and regarding , Luigi Ferragoli, will reflect on the relationship between the environment, the economy and poverty, based on the consideration that the acceleration of the environmental and climate crisis leads to an increase in social inequalities at the expense of the most vulnerable groups of the population. It will be closed on Friday evening On the 21st at the Teatro Palamostre with the Stage show “Earthbound” by and with Marta Cuscunà With free admission and preceded by a dialogue between Roberto Battiston And Massimo Bernardi. It’s a sci-fi show, inspired by the eco-feminist essay “Staying with Trouble” by philosopher Donna Haraway, which tells of a possible new world in which human species unite with other species to save the planet and take it as a treat back.

Four scheduled meetings Saturday 10 June They will range from topics of history and food to topics of space and digitization. at 11 Andrea Zanini will talk to Francis BuryAnd David Conti And Daniel Vicars On the “political use of history”, starting with the consideration that history has always been a soft-folding tool used to create consensus and defend political positions. In the afternoon, work resumes at five in the evening with the theme of space, with which humanity has not ceased to measure itself. They will talk about it Damiano Cantone with Marina Copal, Andrea Guaran And Pierre Luca Montesoro. at 19 Maria Cristina Nicoli and Nicola Gasparro And Gianfranco Brown They will discuss what it means to “think of food” as a value of social exchange according to the rules that determine its use and subsequent market, and thus define the creation of culture. The day and the first three days of the festival will end at 9 pm with the “Globalization, Digitization and Work” meeting that will take place Valeria Fili will talk to Pierre Giorgio Ardini And Teresa Numerico On the topic of the digital revolution and the transformations it brought about in daily life and work.

Thursday, June 15th The festival will begin again at 5 pm with a meeting dedicated to Sergio Bolaño one year after his death, titled “Design Culture: An Interdisciplinary Profession” with Giorgio Camuffo And Eric Speakerman, an accomplished translator on information architecture, in which we will talk about architecture and design and their tendency to dialogue between knowledge. The theme of the meeting scheduled for 7 pm “Video Games: Between Perils and New Possibilities” is a very topical topic to reflect on the notoriety of these often-wasted tools and their potential from an educational and cultural point of view. They will talk about it Luca ChetaroAnd Fabio PotosiAnd Ricardo Ritz and regarding , Paul Rufino. On the 21st, the day ends with a topic that concerns everyone: health. Francis Curcio in conversation with Silvio Garatini And John Bunyolo In the meeting “Who decides about my health” will look at the recent experience of the epidemic, which has not yet been completely overcome, and what implications it has highlighted on medical research, the right to health, morality and just assistance.

Mind and body will be at a meeting point Friday 16th June. at 11 Matthew Ballesteri with Said Cimatti And Ida Dominicani They will focus on “Sensitivity and Weaknesses: Strengths or Weaknesses?” In a society where certain characteristics are always associated with negative and losing characteristics. The ‘body’, as a place of identity and differences but also a working force, an organism to be nurtured, a place of passion or violence and much more, will be at the center of the dialogue, scheduled for 5 p.m., between Silvia Capodivaca, Paola Zeliotto, Patrizia Quattrocchi And Stephen Lazar. Demographic decline and outbound and inbound migration flows are changing Italian demographics: “Italians, few people: the demographic short circuit” is the theme of the 7pm meeting with Marco Bresci and Andrea Fumagalli And Margarita Sabrina Pera. Finally, at 21 years old, Silvia Bologni with Marco Dirio And Adriano Zamperini Thinking of “environmental transition or cultural transition” will be an in-depth analysis of the social effects of ecological transition dealt with in sciences such as law, sociology, and psychology.

the last day of the festival, Saturday 17th June, will be devoted to changes in information, new media, languages, and rights. The first meeting scheduled for 11 Simon Forlani in conversation with Richard Plumer On “Exercises of Meaning or Why We Can’t Help but Look for It” on the constant need to interpret what surrounds us. at 17 Sandro Sozo Presents the meeting “information” with Carla Piazza and Michele Morgante And Claudia Desciaca On the boundary between the real and the virtual created by the digital revolution and the consequences of information. “Dignity, Relationships and Rights” is the title of the meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. that sees its protagonists Francesco Bellotta in conversation with Gaetano Azarte And Marina Lalata Kostropoza. The final meeting of the day, which also concludes the first edition of the festival, is “Language and New Media: A World in Transition?”: 9 p.m. David Zollito talk with Sergia Adamo, Giovanna Cosenza And Fabiana Fusco Regarding the gap between the literary language and the spoken language, the digital revolution, artificial intelligence, mobile phones and the Internet have made daily bread for the new generations who experience the contemporary world in completely new ways.