15/07/2020 The Art of Balance #42 | Mariella Fabbris, what will you believe in? The actress is the 42nd guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. She participates with a video-interview in which she recites the words of one of her compositions. She starts by envisaging the effects of a hypothetical virus of imagination that “can turn something which is already real and accompanies us every day into something fantastic”, she then talks about the Third Paradise providing a series of metaphors developing from a geometric form to identify the value of time and life. “It’s in a circle,” she claims. “that the relationships we need are formed”. IL 15/07/2020 Leggi di più
14/07/2020 The Art of Balance #41 | Alberto Guggino, what will you eat? The Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassador is the 41st guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance/Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. In a video-interview, Alberto Guggino talks about the importance of choosing sustainable food, reflecting on its impact on health, economic and environmental levels: “Reducing injustices linked to food is the first step to restart and have a healthier society”. IL 14/07/2020 Leggi di più
07/07/2020 The Art of Balance #40 | Sergio d’Arpa, how will you cure? The founder of the first digital clinic specialised in personalised predictive medicine is the 40th guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Sergio d’Arpa explains how an adequate monitoring of our health through specific technological instruments – used by specialist doctors – can prevent a lot of illnesses: “Data relative to blood pressure, hours of sleep, physical activity and hydration levels recorded every day for three months… do you realise the amount of information available? Compared to a service of this kind, a doctor’s visit becomes an out-of-focus picture versus a high-quality video”. IL 07/07/2020 Leggi di più
06/07/2020 The Art of Balance #39 | Grazia Omodei, what language will you speak? The Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassadress is the 39th guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Grazia Omodei reflects on the importance empathy can have in the post-pandemic, explaining how everything that happens in the world is linked and involves everybody, regardless of where they are geographically located. “It’s time to act for a new humanity,” she said, “one born of our ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes, which might after all be our own”. IL 06/07/2020 Leggi di più
02/07/2020 The Art of Balance #38 | Paola Deda, how will you dress? Paola Deda (director of UNECE’s Forests, Land and Housing Division) is the 38th participant in the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. In a video contribution, this episode’s guest talks about individual, collective and businesses’ responsibility to adjust towards a more and more sustainable fashion: “It’s time to abandon fast fashion, to rediscover quality, to buy less and maybe better. The pandemic has offered us an opportunity to reflect on our production and consumption models”. IL 02/07/2020 Leggi di più
01/07/2020 The Art of Balance #37 | Maria Teresa Pisani, how will you dress? Maria Teresa Pisani (Economic Cooperation and Trade Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) is the 37th participant in the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. This episode’s guest outlines the importance of dressing sustainably, explaining how essential it is to know what you are buying, starting from what is written on the label: “An item of clothing”, she said, “says a lot about us. It’s time to be able to buy one that tells about our informed and responsible choices”. IL 01/07/2020 Leggi di più
30/06/2020 The Art of Balance #36 | Nicolas Ballario, how will you dream? The radio and TV presenter (also an art and photography expert) is the 36th guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Nicolas Ballario shares his hopes for the post-pandemic future, identifying the role art might have in it, “to teach us that different worlds can meet and coexist, because the emphasising of differences is a manifestation of the highest quality of the human being”. This episode’s guest also mentions the importance that dream education might have, since dreaming is a “time that we unconsciously spend exerting pure imagination”. IL 30/06/2020 Leggi di più
29/06/2020 The art of balance #35 | Isabelle Muller, what language will you speak? The director of the Centre des arts at the International School of Geneva is the 35th guest of “The art of balance/Pandemopraxy”, the initiative launched by Cittadellarte. Isabelle Muller starts by illustrating the curriculum for the XXI century called “Universal Didactic Programme” – developed by her school in collaboration with UNESCO’s International Office of Education – to then talk about the role art plays in the institute she directs. “Faced with the current pandemic situation,” she said, “it is in my eyes necessary to use art as a universal language”. IL 29/06/2020 Leggi di più