the first European festival on creativity

2016 Programme

Event #19

Massimiano Bucchi

The best ideas of our lives. Make room for innovation (the real kind)

What do we talk about when we speak of innovation? Behind this over-used word are actual pathways, winding and fascinating. From the fork to the kalashnikov, from the mouse to spaghetti westerns, some of the intuitions that have changed our lives came about from collective processes that cannot be traced back to the ingenuity of an isolated genius. Turning points in technology but also in ideas, like the QWERTY keyboard sequence we all use daily or the Fosbury style jump. From culture to tech, from sports to cinema and even to the food we eat, we unravel the curious and informative tale – to which the audience of the Festival will be invited to contribute – of small turning points that have brought on great changes.

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Massimiano Bucchi

teaches Science, technology and society at the University of Trento and has been visiting professor in many educational insitutions throughout Asia, Europe and North America. He is the author of books published in Italy, the US, the UK and China. His most recent books are Il pollo di Newton (Guanda, 2013, winner of the international La Vigna award, also published in Finland, Brazil, Korea, Spain and Latin America); Per un pugno di idee. Storie di innovazioni che hanno cambiato le nostre vite (Bompiani, 2016). He is director fo the international journal Public Understanding of Science, he writes for la Repubblica and contributed to the new edition of Superquark.

2016 Programme

Event #19

Massimiano Bucchi

The best ideas of our lives. Make room for innovation (the real kind)

An idea of public space

That place called “home”

The space of words: Helen and Odysseus

The last day of summer

The birth of space (and time)

The birth of space (and time)

The space of war. The First Italian War of Independence

Immunity and the brain: a dialogue between two chief systems. From memory to vaccines.

New males: as teenagers, in couples, as fathers

Tv series: a newly emerged continent

Across the American deserts: a voyage through 20th century collective imagination

What do algorithms think of?

That place is gone

The space of rebellion

Other maps, other worlds. Representations of space

The analyst at the movies: thinking by images

From the stars to Life: one, one hundred, one thousand Earths

Architectural space in the past, the present, the future

Families confined and without borders

The best ideas of our lives. Make room for innovation (the real kind)

The space of absence: Patroclus and Andromache

On the other side of the sea

Play it again

The space of war. The second Italian War of Independence

School is an idea of the world

Asperger Talk Show

Let’s make space for stupidity

Voyages through spaces real and imagined

Is there space for us all? The future of European migrations

When painters left their studios to paint en plein air

The memory of space. The rubble of climate and rubbish in our homes

Graffiti, tags and murals: when art extends to walls

The poetry of space. Words and drawings on that place we call home

The river is never wrong

Mirror neurons: anatomy of a revolutionary discovery

The boundaries of the soul and of the world