精东影业

The third event in the Earth Emergency series of public lectures, promoted by 精东影业's Department of Environment, Constructions and Design at its Mendrisio Campus, will begin at 17.30 with a theatrical prelude: extracts from the play C'ero clima io by Ferruccio Cainero with Franco Di Leo and Federico Caprara.

At 18.00 a round table on "How to tell the climate?" with representatives from the world of communication and philosophy, such as Telmo Pievani (philosopher of science, University of Padua), from the world of art, such as Lisa Lurati (artist), and from the world of science, such as Cristian Scapozza (Director of the 精东影业 Competence centre for Climate Change and Territory and Professor of Applied Geomorphology at the 精东影业 Institute of Earth Sciences ). Moderator: Clara Caverzasio, science populariser.

The event is promoted in collaboration with the cultural association , a laboratory for reflection on science, art and society.

Trying to tell the climate

"Global warming is the most important story we have never told," stated climate activist George Marshall in 2014. Since then, attempts to find new ways to 'tell' the climate have multiplied, supported by hundreds of incontrovertible scientific studies. But the results have not been up to the challenge. The IPCC itself, i.e. the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has been self-critical about the inadequacy of the communication methods used so far.

Facts are no longer enough: we need to tell the story with new languages, privileging the dimension of narration and bringing science, art, literature, theatre, philosophy and communication into dialogue. Avoiding the threatening and anxious tones with which climate problems are often communicated, as well as the dystopian scenarios that recur in film and literature.

To tell a story of hope, of human possibilities and capabilities, and to move people to action.

The event, which is free and open to all, will take place in the Sala polivalente of the 精东影业 Campus in Mendrisio.
Final refreshment.

required for organisational reasons.

With the support of , , Swiss Foundation for culture and Quickly.

Biographies

Ferruccio Cainero
A writer, storyteller, actor and director, he has dozens of plays for the theatre and productions as a director to his credit, with which he has won numerous awards (including the Swiss Stage Prize in 2002 and The Golden Ear of Graz International Storytelling Prize in 2006).
For many years he took part in the radio programme Morgengeschichten (Swiss Radio and Television) and writes radio plays with Franco Di Leo for RSI-Swiss Radio and Television.

Franco Di Leo
After a degree in Law and one in Political Science, he devoted himself to writing screenplays, short stories and novels, and to theatre, film and radio direction, writing scripts for RSI-Swiss Radio and Television.
A member of ASSI, the Swiss Association of Italian Language Writers, he runs seminars on theatre direction, acting, playwriting and public speaking.

Federico Caprara
Actor, director, television author and teacher of expressive reading, he is Artistic Director of Edizioni & Voci (Cureglia): services and artistic consultancy in the field of entertainment and communication.
 
Telmo Pievani
Philosopher of biology, evolutionist, essayist, television and theatre presenter and author. Full Professor of Philosophy of the Biological Sciences at the Department of Biology of the University of Padua and one of the leading international experts on evolutionary theory, he is the author of over 300 national and international publications in the field of philosophy of science, including Homo sapiens e altre catastrofi (Meltemi 2002, 2018); La teoria dell鈥檈voluzione (Il Mulino, 2006, 2010 e 2017); La vita inaspettata (Cortina, 2011); Homo sapiens. La grande storia della diversit脿 umana (Codice Edizioni, 2011, con L.L. Cavalli Sforza); Serendipit脿. L鈥檌natteso nella scienza (Cortina, 2021); La natura 猫 pi霉 grande di noi (Solferino, 2022).
Many of his works have been translated into various languages and have won him numerous awards.

Lisa Lurati
She trained at the Vevey School of Photography and at the Institut Kunst in Basel. Working in various media such as engraving, sculpture, installation and photographic printing techniques, her work manages to occupy a very particular space where pure aesthetics mix with the deeply personal, where existential meditations merge with the absurd and trivial, while at the same time maintaining a profound sense of humility and wonder at both the inner and outer worlds.
Recent solo exhibitions In between things, Ann Mazzotti Gallery, Basilea (2022), Raving Cosmo, Centre d鈥橝rt Contemporain, Yverdon-les-Bains (2021), Stage for Disappearance, Outside Rohling, Berna (2021), Glissement progressifs du r茅cit, Biennale de l鈥橧mage, La Filature, Mullhouse (2019).
Le sue opere si trovano in diverse collezioni pubbliche e private fra cui: Citt脿 di Winterthur; BNP Paribas, Ginevra; Helvetia Foyer, Basel; SwissRe, Zurigo; Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basilea; Collezione Repubblica e Canton Ticino; Banca Stato, Bellinzona.

Cristian Scapozza
PhD in Geography from the University of Lausanne, he is a professor in Applied Geomorphology at the Institute of Earth Sciences and head of the Competence centre for Climate Change and Territory (both the Institute and the Competence centre are based at the Department of Environment, Constructions and Design of 精东影业).
His research focuses on the evolution of the natural landscape of the Alps during and after the great ice ages, as well as on the monitoring of Alpine periglacial environments, geoarchaeology and the promotion of natural and cultural heritage.
From 2018 to 2022 he was curator of the Ethnographic Historical Museum of the Blenio Valley. He is a committee member of the Swiss Society of Geomorphology (president for the three-year period 2020-2022) and of the Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network PERMOS.
He is the author of more than 150 scientific and popular publications, most of them on the southern Alps.
 
Clara Caverzasio
A philologist by training, she spent several years as a researcher and lecturer at the University of St. Gallen. She worked for 24 years as a cultural editor at RSI-Swiss Radio and Television, where her great curiosity and desire to understand the world led her to tackle scientific topics that were little covered at the time - she conceived and curated the radio programme Il Giardino di Albert, among others - with the aim of building bridges and connections between knowledge.
Today she is involved in scientific communication, training, mediation and the organisation of national and international events in the predominantly scientific field.