Living Culture

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Using cultural heritage to shape our future

As popular public places, museums and other cultural institutions play a role at the heart of their communities, being involved in all aspects of daily life, both digitally and physically. The world’s best institutions do not only show our past, but help shape our future. In his closing keynote, independent consultant and innovator Jasper Visser […]

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Once upon a time there will be…

Future technologies and utopian communities in the imagination of children

Ten years of philosophical conversations about utopia have allowed Luca Mori to gather countless intuitions and hypotheses from children, on the future of technology, communities and landscapes of human life. This presentation illustrates the most remarkable and amazing of these insights, as visions which can help both those who seek to interpret the present, and […]

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Low Cost Design

Low Cost Design è un database, un live show sulla soste­nibilità, due pubblicazioni edite da Silvana Edi­toriale con più di 800 illustrazioni, un modello di teaching per le facoltà di Architettura e Design, una grande mostra itinerante con più di cinque­cento oggetti reinventati dalle persone raccolti in tutto il mondo e questo workshop. Low Cost […]

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Culture and the city: new practices, experiments for the future

Even more than physical space, a living and breathing city needs psychological space: places for collaboration, discussion, education. To build this system it is necessary to construct new bases and abandon the logic – and the rhetoric – of the event. Enclosing art and culture in institutions, segregating them within fenced-off areas is neither healthy […]

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S.I.C. – Spazio Internet Comunità (Internet Community Space)

LIVING CULTURE explores the interaction between Internet, Community and the “places” where the new methods of local and cosmopolitan social innovation are being tested, through inspiring presentations on the role of cultural heritage, ethical finance, change activated by culture, the imagination of children and the cities of the future.

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News that wasn’t news

Why some stories are too good to be true

If our country was exactly as the newspapers describe it, Italy would be an even stranger place than it is now believed to be: Italians would be a population of illiterates, an army of people under therapeutic hypnosis, with a surprising percentage of women obsessed by the idea of bedding a referee. Nevertheless these stories, […]

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Europeana Space

Cultura Digitale, Social Media e Innovazione per i Beni Culturali

This workshop will explore different ways of communicating cultural contents with the use of new media and will show how a greater audience can be reached by combining the power of social media and storytelling. The workshop is hosted by Fondazione Sistema Toscana as part of the Europeana Space project activities, in cooperation with Invasioni […]

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Etica dell’acquario (Aquarium ethics)

One November day Gaia returns to the city where she studied, after an absence of ten years. In Pisa nothing appears to have changed, but in fact everything has changed. Gaia finds her old friends and her lover from her university days; but now they are divided by the years spent far away and the […]