Le Città del Futuro - Arte, tradizione, innovazione e scienza

'Cities of the Future - Art, Tradition, Innovation and Science'. is a series of four meetings to be held on the 6th, 13th, 15th and 23rd of July 2023 at the Corsini Botanical Garden in Porto Ercole.

The meetings are conceived as dialogues between artists from the international art community and authoritative protagonists of our time in order to understand what role contemporary art can play in acting both as a stimulus and as a tool, in order to create a new path leading to a sustainable development and to a new idea of society, economy and community.

PROGRAM

The peoples of the world always seem to face the future with a strong attraction towards novelty, especially in a consumerist sense, but with the risk of uprooting and loss of self-awareness, or, on the contrary, with a resistance to change, often motivated by a fear of contamination, which is based on stereotypes of the purity and antiquity of their roots.

How can one experience the history as a key and support for current events and not as a brake? And can you, at the same time, produce innovation and contemporary art, with the consciousness of not only living in the present but having a past and having to leave a future for those who will come after us?

“Le Città del Futuro"is conceived as a series of dialogues between artists from the international community and authoritative protagonists of our time, to understand what role contemporary art can play in acting as a stimulus and, at the same time, as a tool, to give substance to an idea of the city of the future.

MEETINGS 2023:

Thursday 6 July 10 p.m.
Cities of the Future: Carstem Holler dialogue with Mario Cristiani.

Thursday 13 July 9.30 p.m.
Cities of the Future: Mimmo Paladino dialogue with Mario Cristiani
22.30 film screening "The Divine Comet.

Saturday 15 July 10 p.m.
Cities of the Future: Stefano Mancuso with the introduction of Mario Cristiani.

Sunday 23 July 10 p.m.
Cities of the Future: Loris Cecchini dialogue with Mario Cristiani.

THE THEMES

Public Art

We live in a global perspective of demographic increase and progressive urbanisation, a perspective in which, as the time that people can spend in close contact with nature becomes increasingly shorter, the issue of the quality of urban planning, architecture and urban art will strongly emerge.

How can the cities of the future be welcoming and culturally stimulating, not only because of the activities that can take place there, but also because of the way spaces are organised, the quality of architecture and the possibility of enjoying public art? What kind of virtuous relationship should be established between the community, its administrators, urban planning and architecture professionals and artists?

Circular Economy

Globalisation has shown us clearly that no waste disappears. Western society and the manufacturing world, increasingly sensitive to policies that favour reuse, are investing in circularity because producing the new from the already used, even if it requires more effort, creates products with added value, a value also given by the reduction of waste and refuse.

What is missing from the economic system so that this circular production model can definitively establish itself? How can public administrations and public companies support this production model? What role can art play in sensitising society to a circular relationship with the world around it?

Climate Change

Climate change and increasingly unpredictable and violent weather events are before our eyes, but large-scale CO2 reduction operations at the source of industrial production are struggling to get off the ground. A complementary and concrete prospect of mitigating the impact of CO2 is therefore that of 'urban forestation': a massive and widespread increase in planting, to mitigate the impact of sun and rain on the earth, capture CO2, and make even the most industrialised or degraded suburbs socially welcoming.

What are the real scientific needs and possibilities of these environmental policies? What are the costs and benefits? How can contemporary art and town planning make this emergency evident and then encourage the spread of this new way of understanding living in the urban context?

Innovation

The peoples of the world always seem to face the future with a strong attraction towards novelty, especially in a consumerist sense, but with the risk of uprooting and loss of self-awareness. Or, conversely, with a resistance to change, often motivated by a fear of contamination, which is based on stereotypes of the purity and antiquity of their roots.

How can one live history as a key and support for the present and not as a brake? And can one at the same time produce innovation and contemporary art, with the consciousness of not only living in the present but of having a past and of having to leave a future for those who will come after us?

Cities of the Future - Art, Tradition, Innovation and Science

PROJECT PROMOTED BY ASSOCIAZIONE ARTE CONTINUA, IN COORDINATION WITH CORSINI BOTANICAL GARDEN MONTE ARGENTARIO.