At 1700h on Thursday 30 October, in the Aula Magna in via Roentgen 1, a conference entitled Gli spazi del talento, will be taking place, looking at the relationship between cultural spaces and architecture. Stefano Casciani, vice editor of Domus will be introducing the speakers; Gabriella Belli, director of Mart in Rovereto, Mario Cucinella, architect, Derrick De Kerckhove, sociologist from the University of Toronto and Severino Salvemini, a professor at the Bocconi.
The subject for debate will be how much the environment influences the transmission of knowledge and the evolution of ideas and whether the shapes and spaces of museums, universities, research centres as well as virtual places and communities act as an obstacle or can provide stimulus to the development of thought and creativity.
The conference also includes the presentation of the book “Università Bocconi. Un cuore di cristallo per Milano”, edited by Stefano Casciani and published by Editoriale Domus, a critical appraisal of the Grafton design, the overall Bocconi complex and its insertion into the Milanese urban fabric.
“Almost as if to represent all the difficulties that even a prestigious institution such as the Bocconi has to deal with – writes Casciani in the book – the building seems to freeze, like in a Cubist image, the fleeting moment of a temporary, miraculous equilibrium of the forces – both physical and mental – that ferment within the matter that goes to make up cities, a balancing act that reveals a true ability on the part of the architects to 'sculpt' urban space, to know how to give to it and its existence another monument, in the most noble sense of the term”.
