2019 Edition

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“The best way to predict future is to create it”. Abraham Lincoln’s words inspired the leitmotiv of the sixteenth edition of Festival della Mente, the first European festival on creativity and birth of ideas. The concept of "future" has always been important and necessary for the human mind, but it takes on particular meaning in an era like ours, full of social changes, technological transformations and unknowns that weight on the present.
With the usual multidisciplinary and popular approach, the festival wonders about the possible scenarios that await us in the scientific and humanistic field, without forgetting that in order to look to the future one needs to know the past. And with the certainty – as Lincoln reminds us – that, to imagine the future we want, it is necessary to create and invent a new reality starting from today. Without delay.
I hope that the festival, through the competent and passionate voices of the speakers, will be able to convey the conviction that we can and must all become "inventors of the future". A future that can become more and more human, more just, more beautiful.
I express my gratitude to the promoters of the festival, Fondazione Carispezia, with the president Claudia Ceroni, and the Municipality of Sarzana, with the Mayor Cristina Ponzanelli, for the trust and support that I have never missed. And also, to all the collaborators, speakers and volunteers for the energy and enthusiasm with which they contribute to the realization of the festival.

Benedetta Marietti
Festival della Mente Director