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”. Redazione, 02/07/2020 Read more
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”. Redazione, 01/07/2020 Read more
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”. Redazione, 30/06/2020 Read more
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”. Redazione, 29/06/2020 Read more
The art of balance#34 | Frank Leenders, how will you communicate? Frank Leenders (Director General at FIBA Media & Marketing is the 34th guest of “The art of balance/Pandemopraxy”, the initiative launched by Cittadellarte. In his video contribution, Frank Leenders talks about the important role sports might play in the post-Coronavirus as an element of social aggregation, especially team sports like basketball. This episode’s guest also explains how basketball can trigger a social change in the fight against racism: “Let’s make the world a better place through sports”. Redazione, 26/06/2020 Read more
The Art of Balance #33 | Francesco Rocca, how will you cure? The president of the Italian Red Cross is the 33rd guest of “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”. Francesco Rocca takes part in the project launched by Cittadellarte with a video-interview, explaining how the volunteering organisation has operated during the sanitary emergency and how it will act in the post-pandemic: “This is how we have cured and will cure,” he said, “guided by a beacon that will never go out, ignited by the same values animating the search for the Third Paradise, the ultimate dream”. Redazione, 24/06/2020 Read more
The Art of Balance #32 | Saverio Teruzzi, what will you buy? The artivator – cultural project manager and coordinator of the ambassadors of Cittadellarte’s project Rebirth/Third Paradise is the 32nd guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”. Francesco Saverio Teruzzi – a member of Fondazione Pistoletto’s communication team and Accademia Unidee’s orientation team – analyses the Coronavirus from the perspective of cause-effect relationship, reflecting on the impact the pandemic has had in global society and on how it has transformed our habits. Now, to restart, we don’t need a revolution but a change: “Today,” he claimed, “we don’t have the capitalism vs communism paradigm anymore, but the duopoly finance-consumerism, which – with the exception of a few areas still resisting the invasion – have practically won across the board. We therefore need a change, a slow and persistent movement able to impose different assumptions, different morals, a different civic sense on society”. Our guest concludes by illustrating possible practices of change he will personally apply. Redazione, 23/06/2020 Read more
The art of balance #31 | Anna Pironti and Paola Zanini, how will you travel? The director and the project manager of the Educational Department of Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Art Museum are the 31st participants in the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”. Anna Pironti and Paola Zanini start by describing their role: to welcome people of all ages to assist them in approaching the art of the present. Our two guests also explain why they call themselves “artenaut”, both inside and outside the artistic context: “We draw fully on the metaphor of the journey as an iconic and symbolic representation of the path of knowledge,” - they say, - “and we deal on a daily basis with the other, the new, the unknown and the mystery that every work carries with itself”. A complex process that, as they explain, is conveyed by passion and driven by words, gestures and sharing. Redazione, 22/06/2020 Read more
