From September 19 to 22, the Third World Conference on the Future of Science takes place on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. Organized by the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Umberto Veronesi Foundation and the Marco Tronchetti Provera Foundation, this year edition focuses on the topic “The Energy Challenge”. The three conference days, that see the participation of several experts from all over the world, is dedicated to the new energy sources, the effects of energy consumption on the environment and health, ethical, political and economical implications of energy consumption. Differently from other meetings focused on energy, the Venice Conference not features among its speakers energy producers, but rather scientists and economists, who engages in a debate on social and environmental emergencies related to energy consumption. Speakers include two Nobel Prize winners, Zhores Alferov and Carlo Rubbia, five researchers from MIT and several other international scientists.
Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
19 – 22 September 2007
Information
http://www.thefutureofscience.org
Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Giorgio Cini Foundation of Venice has performed the role of a powerful bridge across the inner frontier of the European Continent. Heir of the long-lasting Venetian tradition of curiosity and open-mindedness, it has been the critical knot of exchange and shared elaboration for scholars, experts and professionals who viewed it as an oasis of freedom and opportunity. The changes and transformations occurring in the world after the Nineties, and still evolving in indefinite directions, deserve new analyses, and induce new paradigms. Below the surface of the West-East conflict, and of the rise of Asian economies, the whole planet map of ideas and values is being re-designed by the spontaneous birth and growth of movements, trends and thoughts, in response to the complex needs of the Third Millennium.
The Giorgio Cini Foundation offers itself as the place where the new flows of creative ideas, innovative interpretations, new elaborations can be studied and promoted. This international workshop is the first step towards the elaboration of a new world map of ideas and values of cultural co-operation in the globalised world.
The workshop, which will consist of a multidisciplinary discussion, aims at favouring a critical analysis of forms, technologies, procedures and functions of cultural co-operation, by involving specialists, scholars and representatives of institutions.
The workshop focuses on three main issues pertaining the changing role of international cultural co-operation and the emerging perspectives in cultural exchange among individuals, communities, and nations.
1. Values, ideas, creativity – What are we exchanging when we communicate with other people?
2. Exchanges – In which way exchanges and shared views may (or should) occur? What are we exchanging ideas and values for?
3. Goals and expectations – What are the goals and objectives of cultural co-operation today?
Participants offer their specific point of view, and eventually the complex picture of new routes and relationships arise from this multidisciplinary dialogue that, rather than presenting experiences already carried out, intends to elicit imagination and forecast about our common future.
The official language of the workshop is English. Translation to Italian is provided.
Free entrance.
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Workshop Secretariat
tel. +39 041 2710280 – fax +39 041 5238540
e-mail: stampa@cini.it
The Institute of Art History of the Giorgio Cini Foundation intends to celebrate Giuseppe Santomaso’s 100th anniversary with an international conference organised in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. The conference, the first public date in a series of cultural events dedicated to the painter, is aimed at analysing Santomaso’s artistic personality and his international art network.
A big exhibition follows in 2008 at the Giorgio Cini Foundation.
Information
Institute of Art History
tel. +39 041 2710230 – fax +39 041 5205842
e-mail: arte@cini.it
in collaboration with Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio
Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
9 – 10 May 2008
Information
Institute of Art History
tel. +39 041 2710230 – fax +39 041 5205842
e-mail: arte@cini.it
INFO: http://www.andreapalladio500.org/
