Podcasts about padova

Come siamo arrivati a concepire la morte nel nostro mondo occidentale come una figura incappucciata, uno scheletro che gira con una falce? Come è cambiata la percezione che abbiamo della morte la cui discussione e rappresentazione pubblica sono percepite con lo stesso imbarazzo e rimozione associati alla pornografia? Grazie all'intervento di Angela Marangon, laureanda in Filologia Moderna presso l'Università degli Studi di Padova con la tesi "Da Philippe Ariès a Neil Gaiman. Antiche e nuove rappresentazioni dellamorte dal Medioevo a oggi" abbiamo parlato di questi argomenti trattando gli studi di Philippe Ariès, storico francese del 900 attivo nell'ambito dello studio della morte con il suo saggio "Storia della morte in Occidente: dal medioevo ai giorni nostri". Abbiamo discusso delle rappresentazioni moderne della morte nella cultura pop e nella letteratura moderna, la strategia dell'ironia come le campagne marketing di Taffo e l'immortalità digitale o persistenza digitale dei profili di utenti ormai deceduti ma ancora attivi creando una forma inedita di "presenza" post-mortem.Per concludere abbiamo parlato di 4 libri fantasy o comunque inerenti al fantastico che hanno come protagonisti la morte personificata o antropomorfizzata: "Santa Maria - Anche la morte va in burnout" di Francesco Muzzopappa, "Le Intermittenze della Morte" di José Saramago, "Il Ciclo di Morte" di Terry Pratchett e "Sul Destriero Immortale" di Piers Anthony.Tesi Di Angela Marangon: https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/44254Discord: https://discord.gg/zPH6EeEgfXCanale Telegram: https://t.me/blablafantasPagina Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bla.blafantasy/

Giuristi, economisti e accademici da entrambi i Paesi si sono incontrati a Padova per l'edizione 2025 dell'"Italian-Australian Law and Financial Conference", incentrata anche sulle sfide e sull'opportunità dell'intelligenza artificiale.

Pubblichiamo il corso di teoria della Letteratura per il triennio dal titolo “Soggetto e linguaggio”, tenutosi presso l'Università di Padova nell'anno accademico 2013-2014. Di seguito l'abstract del corso:“Nella letteratura, quanto più essa venga colta in quel suo nucleo che la riconduce al tempo e alle ragioni dell'evento della poesia, si propone come il luogo nel quale il rapporto tra umanità e linguaggio si mostra nella sua radicalità. Linguaggio ed evento soggettivo in esso si implicano aldilà di qualsiasi riduzione dell'uno a strumento di comunicazione e dell'altro ad oggetto disponibile per le definizioni dei saperi. Di qui la capacità del gesto poetico di incrociare momenti decisivi della pratica del pensiero filosofico e scientifico come di quello religioso o etico e politico, oltre che di dialogare con i motivi e le modalità essenziali della ricerca estetica.Il corso, procedendo da zone notissime ma ermeneuticamente inesauribili del pensiero platonico, attraverserà testi d'epoche diverse (tutti peraltro ripetutamente interrogati da importanti imprese interpretative novecentesche) sino a giungere ad alcuni momenti del pensiero contemporaneo nei quali l'evocazione della letteratura si rivela una necessità primaria dello stesso esercizio teorico e speculativo.”

Gian Piero Brunetta"Pasolini e il cinema"Parola, visione, mitoCarocci Editorewww.carocci.itA cinquant'anni dalla morte, Pasolini continua a parlarci e ad apparirci come un compagno di viaggio con cui polemizzare, dissentire e discutere di problemi legati al mondo che ci circonda. L'insieme della sua opera filmica influenza ancora il cinema e suscita tuttora interesse in pubblici, ricercatori e studiosi di ogni età e in tutto il mondo. Il volume evidenzia l'importanza della parola e la connessione con l'attività letteraria di Pasolini nella sua prima fase cinematografica e la successiva centralità del mito e dei classici, la necessità della tradizione artistica nella formazione del suo immaginario, la partecipazione al dibattito teorico e semiologico negli anni Sessanta e, da ultimo, la ricerca della bellezza e di realtà edeniche in un mondo di cui sempre più prevede, senza alcuna luce di speranza, un futuro atroce e infernale.Gian Piero Brunetta è professore emerito di Storia del cinema nell'Università degli Studi di Padova. Fra le sue numerose pubblicazioni, tre diverse storie del cinema italiano, la più aggiornata delle quali è Cinema italiano. Una storia grande 1905-2023 (Feltrinelli, 2024) e la direzione della Storia del cinema mondiale (Einaudi,1999-2001).  Nel 2017 ha vinto il premio Feltrinelli dei Lincei per la Storia del cinema.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

"A eseque avvenute" di Massimo Carlotto e "Qualcosa che brilla" di Michela MarzanoAscoltare blues e sorseggiare Calvados sono due dei tratti distintivi dell'Alligatore, al secolo Marco Buratti, personaggio creato da Massimo Carlotto esattamente trent'anni fa. Investigatore senza licenza, lavora con i suoi compagni di sempre, Max La Memoria e Beniamino Rossini. Ha passato un periodo in carcere e una volta fuori accetta di indagare solo su casi che ritiene importanti. Ha un grande senso della giustizia, non ama le armi, e il lavoro sporco lo lascia a Beniamino. Con il passare del tempo è diventato più riflessivo e malinconico. Il nuovo romanzo con l'Alligatore è "A esequie avvenute" (Einaudi). L'Alligatore, Max e Beniamino, vengono ingaggiati da un uomo, Loris Pozza, perché la sua amante è stata rapita e bisogna pagare un riscatto. Intanto Beniamino continua nella sua missione di liberare le donne dal racket della prostituzione, commettendo però una leggerezza.Nella seconda parte parliamo di "Qualcosa che brilla" di Michela Marzano (Rizzoli). Otto personaggi, otto adolescenti in terapia presso un centro medico psico-educativo: c'è Clara che ruba qualunque cosa, Sara, alla quale è stata diagnosticata una depressione, Noemi che soffre di bulimia, dice che ha sempre fame, Giampaolo, che ha degli scatti d'ira, Viola che si taglia. Ma c'è anche Luca, che ha tentato il suicidio. Il centro dove sono in terapia è stato creato da Mauro Rolli, uno psichiatra che ha abbandonato i metodi tradizionali di approccio alla cura. Da giovane, negli anni '90, aveva lavorato a Padova insieme a uno psichiatra per il quale invece tutti i sintomi dovevano essere inseriti in uno schema preciso: a stesso sintomo corrispondeva stessa diagnosi. Rolli mette in dubbio questo metodo rigido quando incontra una giovane paziente, Arianna, che all'epoca aveva 22 anni ed era stata ricoverata per un tentato suicidio. Da quel momento in poi nasce nella sua testa l'idea di un approccio diverso, consapevole del fatto che non esistono soluzioni facili e rapide, ma che dietro ogni sintomo c'è una storia e che i giovani hanno soprattutto bisogno di essere ascoltati.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it....."  Baghdad Sketches, Freya StarkWelcome to Episode #124:Today I take you on a journey through a few travel experiences that have a left a wonderful impression on my life as a writer and lover of Italy. These are a handful of moments that captured the essence of travel and what I truly appreciate and love about the Italian culture and visiting Italy.The places that called me on the travel journeys in Italy, that are mentioned today.... The Venetian Lagoon, Venice, Padova, Torino, Sperlonga, Campania, Rome, Lake Garda, Milano….. and ParisEnjoy xIf you are interested in another kind of rabbit hole, I mention these podcasts along the way....Art & Love: Peggy Guggenheim Part 1Art & Love: Peggy Guggenheim Part 2Moments in Italy: Caffes & Coffee Bars, Turin ItalyShownotes at MichelleJohnston.lifeA Writer in Italy InstagramSubstack - At My TableMichelle's Books© 2025  A Writer In Italy - travel, books, art and lifeMusic Composed by Richard Johnston © 2025Today's end music - 'Chances' 'Seascapes" for mood music.....Richard's Music is available on Spotify and Apple Music - Album 4240Links to Episodes that I mention in this podcast:Art & Love: Peggy Guggenheim Part 1Art & Love: Peggy Guggenheim Part 2Moments in Italy: Caffes & Coffee Bars, Turin ItalySupport the show

Mangiare bene non è solo una buona abitudine... è un messaggio diretto al nostro DNA. A Obiettivo Salute parliamo di una ricerca recente che dimostra come alcuni cibi - dal tè verde al vino rosso - siano in grado di "accendere" o "spegnere" i nostri geni, influenzando l'invecchiamento e il rischio di malattie croniche. Ospite della puntata la professoressa Sofia Pavanello, coordinatrice della ricerca e responsabile del progetto EPIFOOD dell'Università di Padova

L'operaio, di origini marocchine e residenrte a Padova, stava tornando a casa dopo una giornata di lavoro quando c'è stato l'impatto, violento, del suo scooter contro un Mercedes. Inutili i soccorsi. L'automobilista è indagato per omicidio stradale.

In questa nuova puntata non possiamo non cominciare ringraziando gli ascoltatori che sono venuti a trovarci nella grigia Ginevra per una giornata con visita al CERN, alla città, e tradizioni culinarie a base di latticini! C'è chi dice che sia stata una bellissima giornata e c'è chi mente.Tornando alla scienza si realizza finalmente il sogno di Valeria, perché la puntata si apre con Francesca che parla di virus! Un nuovo preprint pubblicato dai ricercatori di Stanford ha sfruttato l'intelligenza artificiale per progettare nuovi batteriofagi in grado di infettare uno specifico ceppo di E. Coli. Diversi fagi sono stati sintetizzati e sono risultati infettivi e specifici! Nell'attesa che l'articolo sia pubblicato, questa potrebbe essere una nuova frontiera per la terapia fagica che è una delle armi a disposizione per combattere la resistenza agli antibiotici.Leonardo in esterna intervista Marco Giordani, professore di telecomunicazioni all'Università di Padova che ci spiega alcune sfide tecnologiche dietro alle moderne reti satellitari, continuando l'approfondimento iniziato la scorsa settimana.Tornati in studio, dopo una barza statisticamente brutta, Valeria ci parla di un nuovo articolo pubblicato su Nature, in cui viene identificato un nuovo recettore per TBEV, il virus dell'encefalite da zecche. Questa proteina, chiamata LRP8, è necessaria al virus per entrare nelle cellule ed è presente nelle cellule del sistema nervoso. I ricercatori, dopo aver verificato l'interazione specifica tra il virus e la proteina, hanno anche sviluppato una forma di recettore solubile che è capace di legarsi al virus e prevenire l'infezione nelle cellule e anche nei topi.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scientificast-la-scienza-come-non-l-hai-mai-sentita--1762253/support.

Alvise Trisciuzzi"Il caso dell'uomo che fu ucciso due volte"Newton Compton Editorewww.newtoncompton.comFabio Mazza ha infranto cuori
e distrutto matrimoni e ora 
il suo corpo giace privo di vita nella piazza del paese.
 È stato colpito due volte da due mani diverse, ma qual è quella che ha inferto la ferita mortale? Toccherà al maresciallo Arturo Bonomi scoprirlo.Un'indagine del maresciallo Arturo BonomiNel paesino della Bassa avvolto nella nebbia è avvenuto un misterioso omicidio. La vittima è Fabio Mazza, il rubacuori locale. I sospetti sono tanti: indifferente com'era al fatto che la sua conquista fosse sposata o meno, il morto si era fatto molti nemici, e certo non aiutano le condizioni del corpo trovato in mezzo alla piazza. Fabio Mazza presenta, infatti, due ferite mortali, come se l'avessero ammazzato due volte: con un colpo di pistola e tagliandogli la gola. Il maresciallo Arturo Bonomi, aiutato dall'ineffabile dottor Peruzzi, da Boris l'oste e dal resto della sua compagnia di amici, è costretto a addentrarsi nei segreti e nei vizi dei suoi compaesani, scoprendo un mondo di gelosie brucianti e passioni nascoste, amori che iniziano e amori che finiscono, femmes fatales e mogli insoddisfatte... ma chi tra loro sarà il vero assassino?Alvise TrisciuzziÈ nato a Padova nel 1974 e adesso vive con la famiglia a Torreglia, ai piedi dei Colli Euganei. È avvocato, un volontario AVIS (ci tiene a ricordare l'importanza delle donazioni di sangue) e un grande appassionato di sport: ciclismo, basket e football americano, ma solo dal divano. Adora le storie, in particolare quelle gialle. Gli piace ascoltarle, leggerle e a volte scriverle. Con la Newton Compton ha pubblicato Il delitto della Madonna di Fossalto e Il caso dell'uomo che fu ucciso due volte.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Pubblichiamo il corso di teoria della Letteratura per il triennio dal titolo “Soggetto e linguaggio”, tenutosi presso l'Università di Padova nell'anno accademico 2013-2014. Di seguito l'abstract del corso:“Nella letteratura, quanto più essa venga colta in quel suo nucleo che la riconduce al tempo e alle ragioni dell'evento della poesia, si propone come il luogo nel quale il rapporto tra umanità e linguaggio si mostra nella sua radicalità. Linguaggio ed evento soggettivo in esso si implicano aldilà di qualsiasi riduzione dell'uno a strumento di comunicazione e dell'altro ad oggetto disponibile per le definizioni dei saperi. Di qui la capacità del gesto poetico di incrociare momenti decisivi della pratica del pensiero filosofico e scientifico come di quello religioso o etico e politico, oltre che di dialogare con i motivi e le modalità essenziali della ricerca estetica.Il corso, procedendo da zone notissime ma ermeneuticamente inesauribili del pensiero platonico, attraverserà testi d'epoche diverse (tutti peraltro ripetutamente interrogati da importanti imprese interpretative novecentesche) sino a giungere ad alcuni momenti del pensiero contemporaneo nei quali l'evocazione della letteratura si rivela una necessità primaria dello stesso esercizio teorico e speculativo.”

Apriamo questa nuova puntata con Gianni Trovati de Il sole 24 Ore, per commentare il testo sulla nuova Manovra, approvato ieri dal Consiglio dei ministri. Torna "YouTRE, sondaggi senza numeri in tre minuti" con cui, ogni settimana, grazie alla collaborazione con YouTrend raccontiamo gli impatti sull'elettorato dei più recenti fatti politici. In questa puntata il sondaggio sarà presentato da Giovanni Diamanti, co-fondatore di Quorum/Youtrend e Docente di Marketing politico all'Università di Padova. I dati del sondaggio saranno lo spunto per affrontare i più importanti temi di politica interna (dalle divisioni interne a maggioranza e opposizione alla corsa per le regionali in Veneto, Puglia e Campania) insieme a Giulia Merlo e Pietro Senaldi, che in questi giorni è in libreria con "Sveglia! Le bugie che ci impoveriscono. Le verità che ci arricchiranno" scritto con Giorgio Merli per Marsilio.E poi accogliamo ad Amici e Nemici Camila Raznovic: il ruolo di scuola e famiglie nell'educazione sessuo-affettiva tra i più giovani ma anche la chiusura definitiva di Mtv Italia.

Si sono conclusi intorno alle 18 i funerali di Stato per i tre carabinieri -  Valerio Daprà, Davide Bernardello e Marco Piffari - morti nell'esplosione di Castel d'Azzano. Una cerimonia lunga e toccante, seguita da moltissime persone dentro e fuori dalla Basilica padovana di Santa Giustina. "Non saranno mai dimenticati" ha detto il ministro alla Difesa Guido Crosetto.

Si terranno nella Basilica di Santa Giustina, alla presenza del Presidente della Repubblica Mattarella e la Presidente del Consiglio Meloni. Dalle 18 la camera ardente presso il comando della Legione Carabinieri del Veneto. Per aver fatto saltare in aria la loro abitazione i tre fratelli Ramponi sono indagati per strage e rischiano l'ergastolo.

Giovanni Frausini"Preti usa e getta?"Le comunità e i loro pretiEDB Edizioni Dehoniane Bolognawww.edb.itLa ricerca si colloca pienamente sulla scia del sinodo, entrando nelle maggiori questioni che affronta oggi la chiesa nel mondo. Sono questioni di carattere teologico, come la fondazione del ministero ordinato nella sua tripartizione e nella sua relazione con tutti i battezzati; questioni di carattere spirituale, come lo sviluppo delle tipologie ministeriali nella storia o la relazione tra celibato e presbiterato; questioni di carattere pastorale, come il sovraccarico di compiti sui parroci, la moltiplicazione delle messe e delle celebrazioni «in attesa di presbitero» o le forme di vita comunitaria dei ministri ordinati (preti e vescovi). Con uno stile spigliato e talvolta ironico, senza lesinare aneddoti anche personali, l'autore mette a frutto da una parte la sua personale esperienza di presbitero e di medico psicologo clinico, e dall'altra la sua ormai pluridecennale frequentazione della letteratura teologica e pastorale su tali argomenti. Si rende necessaria a suo dire una revisione strutturale dell'attuale iter di preparazione al ministero presbiterale, che superi la forma del «seminario» e istituisca percorsi che integrano meglio la dimensione teologica, spirituale e «collegiale» con un'esperienza viva di comunità cristiana, missione e servizio.Giovanni Frausini ha conseguito il dottorato all'Istituto di Liturgia pastorale di Santa Giustina a Padova. Insegna all'Istituto Teologico Marchigiano e all'Istituto Teologico di Assisi. Tra le sue pubblicazioni: Il presbiterio. Non è bene che il vescovo sia solo (2007), Il Sacramento dell'ordine. Dacci oggi il nostro pane degli Apostoli (2017), La teologia dei sacramenti dell'ordine nell'iter di revisione postconciliare dei riti di ordinazione (2019) e, per EDB, Contagiare di desiderio. Diaconato e riforma della Chiesa (2022).Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Giovanna Bottaro"In viaggio con Lulù"Apogeo Editorehttps://www.remweb.it/scheda-libro/giovanna-bottaro/in-viaggio-con-lulu-9791281386273-229.htmlUn evento inaspettato cambia la vita di una giovane donna: ciò che prima pareva certo e costituiva un terreno abituale diventa così una realtà totalmente nuova e da decifrare, dentro un nuovo tempo. Il presente e il passato si alternano in un'altalena di immagini tra nostalgia, risate e ironia. Ciascuna di esse rimanda a rinnovate consapevolezze. Un folto gruppo di personaggi gravita intorno alla protagonista come una delicata, protettiva bolla di sapone. E poi c'è Lulù, arrivata di corsa, in un viaggio di sognatori, a colmare un distacco. E c'è, alla fine, un bene insostituibile che sembra muovere tutto, e spingere verso un tutto: come nel cosmo, perfettamente in armonia nella corrispondenza dei suoi elementi, così pure il combaciare pieno delle cose umane può esistere solo nel buon corrispondersi.Giovanna Bottaro è nata a Este nel giugno del 1976. Si è laureata in Psicologia clinica all'Università di Padova. Ha fatto parte della segreteria di un Parlamentare europeo ed è poi stata Segretaria particolare del Sindaco di Venezia.Lavora presso la Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia dove segue le attività dell'Archivio Storico ed è coordinatore editoriale della rivista La Biennale di Venezia.Abita a Mestre e fa vita di teatro, concerti e grandi eventi da sempre.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Nella puntata 583 vi portiamo in un viaggio che attraversa mondi molto diversi ma uniti da un filo comune: l'innovazione scientifica che cambia il modo in cui comprendiamo e costruiamo la realtà. Si parte dalla chimica dei materiali più porosi mai creati, si passa alle tecnologie che collegano la Terra dallo spazio e si arriva alle nuove frontiere della stampa 3D dei metalli. Dai laboratori di ricerca alle orbite satellitari, un percorso che racconta come scienza e tecnologia si intrecciano per disegnare il futuro.Ilaria esce clamorosamente dalla sua comfort zone e sceglie di raccontarci il Premio Nobel per la Chimica 2025, assegnato a Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson e Omar Yaghi per aver inventato una nuova forma di architettura molecolare: i metal–organic frameworks, o MOF. Questi materiali incredibilmente porosi, vere e proprie “spugne molecolari” composte da metalli collegati da molecole organiche, sono in grado di intrappolare e rilasciare sostanze specifiche. Dai gas tossici all'acqua del deserto, i MOF promettono applicazioni rivoluzionarie nella cattura di CO₂, nello stoccaggio di energia e persino nella catalisi chimica.Leonardo invece ci porta in orbita. Intervista Marco Giordani, professore di Telecomunicazioni all'Università di Padova, che racconta come funzionano le reti satellitari di nuova generazione, quelle che rendono possibile la connessione globale — come nel caso di Starlink.Andrea ci accompagna nel mondo della stampa 3D dei metalli, dove la sfida è creare leghe leggere ma resistentissime. Un gruppo di ricercatori ha progettato una nuova lega di alluminio con prestazioni record, cinque volte più forte di quella fusa e addirittura più robusta delle migliori leghe tradizionali usate in aeronautica. Questo risultato è stato ottenuto grazie a un mix di simulazioni al computer e tecniche di stampa 3D che permettono di solidificare il materiale a velocità estreme, generando minuscole strutture interne che ne aumentano la forza.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scientificast-la-scienza-come-non-l-hai-mai-sentita--1762253/support.

Donatella Puliga"Natura abhorret a vacuo?"Un percorso tra il pensiero classico e le beatitudini evangelicheTorino Spiritualitàwww.torinospiritualita.orgwww.circololettori.itNatura abhorret a vacuo? Un percorso tra il pensiero classico e le beatitudini evangelichegiovedì 16 ottobre 2025 ore 11.30 | Torino, il Circolo dei lettori, sala giocoVuoto e ricerche: meditando a partire da una pagina biblicacon Donatella Puliga, classicista e Guido Bertagna sj, sacerdotea cura di CIS – Centro Ignaziano di SpiritualitàA partire dai primi filosofi della Natura, passando per gli atomisti per giungere ad Aristotele, fu sempre vivo il dibattito tra sostenitori e negazionisti dell'idea del vuoto. La pagina delle beatitudini evangeliche sembra ribaltare in certo modo entrambe le prospettive, conferendo al vuoto lo statuto privilegiato di condizione per accedere al Regno.Donatella Puliga, classicista, ha insegnato Civiltà greca e latina e Antropologia del mondo antico all'Università di Siena. Studiosa del mito, è interessata alle sue permanenze nella società contemporanea. Collabora con La Lettura, supplemento culturale del «Corriere della Sera» e con il Santuario di Sant'Antonio di Boves (CN).Guido Bertagna sj, sacerdote gesuita dal 1996, ha lavorato a Milano San Fedele come responsabile pastorale e culturale, collaborando anche con il carcere di San Vittore. Inviato al Centro Giovanile Antonianum di Padova, è impegnato nella formazione e nella promozione della Giustizia riparativa. Dal 2020 prosegue queste attività a Torino, dove insegna alla Facoltà Teologica e promuove l'attività del Centro Teologico.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Pubblichiamo il corso di teoria della Letteratura per il triennio dal titolo “Soggetto e linguaggio”, tenutosi presso l'Università di Padova nell'anno accademico 2013-2014. Di seguito l'abstract del corso:“Nella letteratura, quanto più essa venga colta in quel suo nucleo che la riconduce al tempo e alle ragioni dell'evento della poesia, si propone come il luogo nel quale il rapporto tra umanità e linguaggio si mostra nella sua radicalità. Linguaggio ed evento soggettivo in esso si implicano aldilà di qualsiasi riduzione dell'uno a strumento di comunicazione e dell'altro ad oggetto disponibile per le definizioni dei saperi. Di qui la capacità del gesto poetico di incrociare momenti decisivi della pratica del pensiero filosofico e scientifico come di quello religioso o etico e politico, oltre che di dialogare con i motivi e le modalità essenziali della ricerca estetica.Il corso, procedendo da zone notissime ma ermeneuticamente inesauribili del pensiero platonico, attraverserà testi d'epoche diverse (tutti peraltro ripetutamente interrogati da importanti imprese interpretative novecentesche) sino a giungere ad alcuni momenti del pensiero contemporaneo nei quali l'evocazione della letteratura si rivela una necessità primaria dello stesso esercizio teorico e speculativo.”

In this special episode, Loren and Carolyn team up to co-host a conversation all about AcroFLEX Acrobatic Arts' newest workshop designed to change the way teachers approach flexibility training. They dive into the spark behind AcroFLEX, the research that fueled its creation, and who it serves. You'll hear how the F.L.E.X. method equips teachers with practical, safe, and adaptable tools to build both strength and range in their dancers. If you've ever wondered how to confidently teach flexibility in a way that supports every dancer's body, this episode is for you. Learn more and register for the AcroFLEX Workshop: https://www.acrobaticarts.com/training-courses/acroflex-workshop About Loren Dermody Loren envisions living in a world where everyone dances, loves, laughs, lives their passion, and listens to Prince every single day! A renowned and sought-after coach and choreographer, Loren started studying dance, acrobatics, and baton twirling at a very young age in Regina, Saskatchewan. Throughout her competitive career she competed nationally and internationally in dance and baton twirling as an individual and in groups. Hard work and dedication brought her and her teammates incredible success including a Gold Medal at the World Baton Twirling Championships in Padova, Italy and recognition as inductees into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. Over the last 30 years, when she's not choreographing award-winning routines for hundreds of dancers and athletes in dance, baton and acrobatics, you can find her traveling the world, upgrading her certifications, attending professional development events, workshops, and conferences that keep her on top of the most recent developments and current trends in the industry. In addition to holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Studies from the University of Calgary, Loren is a CBTF Certified Coach & Judge; WBTF Certified Judge; Certified Yoga & Meditation Teacher; ADAPT Jazz and Tap Certified Teacher; Certified RWID Instructor; Certified PBT Teacher; Alixa Flexibility Module 3 Certified Teacher; Acrobatic Arts Certified Teacher, Course Conductor, & Examiner; Level 1 Certified Trainer in the Genius of Flexibility Method; Level 2 NCCP Accredited Coach; Y.P.A.D Certified Teacher; member of IADMS; member of the Yoga Alliance; and a member of the Canadian Dance Teachers Association (Jazz & Acrobatics). Loren has been with Acrobatic Arts since the beginning and is excited to contribute her creativity, years of experience, and her love for teaching alongside the most talented staff in the world! If you'd like more amazing content more tips and ideas check out our Acrobatic Arts Channel on YouTube. Subscribe Now! Connect with Acrobatic Arts on your favourite social media platform: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acrobaticarts/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Acroarts Twitter: https://twitter.com/acrobatic_arts/ Learn more and register for our programs at AcrobaticArts.com

Un Donald Trump ottimista continua a distribuire le carte nella difficile partita del piano di pace per Gaza, facendo pressioni sia su Hamas sia su Benjamin Netanyahu. Oggi, a Sharm el-Sheik, cominciano i negoziati per i primi passi verso la fine delle ostilità. Ne parliamo con Michela Mercuri, professoressa di Storia dei Paesi musulmani all'Università di Padova, e con Valentina Furlanetto, inviata di Radio24 a Gerusalemme.Il primo ministro Sébastien Lecornu si dimette. Quale sarà il prossimo passo del presidente Macron? Lo chiediamo a Michele Marchi, professore di Storia contemporanea all'Università di Bologna.

Dopo il successo del tour “Come Saprei Live 2025”, tutto esaurito in ogni tappa, Giorgia torna con un disco che segna un nuovo percorso musicale e umano. “G” è un lavoro che mescola la sua inconfondibile vocalità con una ricerca sonora contemporanea, costruita insieme a una squadra di autori d'eccezione con la stessa Giorgia tra i co-autori dei testi. Al suo interno troveranno ovviamente spazio i brani pubblicati dalla cantante nel corso del 2025, la super hit La cura per me, il singolo estivo L'unica e la recente GOLPE, brano che ha segnato il più altro debutto in radio dell'anno per una cantante donna. G è il 12esimo album di inediti pubblicato da Giorgia in 30 anni di carriera. Discografia a cui si aggiungono 3 dischi live, due raccolte e un album di cover per un totale di 18 album pubblicati. Dopo l'estate nei teatri e nelle arene, Giorgia torna dal vivo nei grandi palasport italiani con il tour “Palasport Live”, prodotto da Friends & Partners. Le prime date hanno già registrato il tutto esaurito, segno dell'affetto del pubblico verso una delle voci più iconiche della musica italiana. 25 novembre 2025 – Jesolo (VE), Palazzo del Turismo (SOLD OUT) 6 dicembre 2025 – Bologna, Unipol Arena (SOLD OUT) 8 dicembre 2025 – Firenze, Nelson Mandela Forum (SOLD OUT) 10 dicembre 2025 – Torino, Inalpi Arena 12 dicembre 2025 – Pesaro, Vitrifrigo Arena (SOLD OUT) 13 dicembre 2025 – Milano, Unipol Forum (SOLD OUT) 16 dicembre 2025 – Padova, Kioene Arena (SOLD OUT) 19 dicembre 2025 – Roma, Palazzo dello Sport (SOLD OUT) 20 dicembre 2025 – Bari, Palaflorio (SOLD OUT) 22 dicembre 2025 – Roma, Palazzo dello Sport 18 marzo 2026 – Bari, Palaflorio 21 marzo 2026 – Bologna, Unipol Arena 23 marzo 2026 – Milano, Unipol Forum 24 marzo 2026 – Milano, Unipol Forum 28 marzo 2026 – Firenze, Mandela Forum 30 marzo 2026 – Padova, Kioene Arena Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pubblichiamo il corso di teoria della Letteratura per il triennio dal titolo “Soggetto e linguaggio”, tenutosi presso l'Università di Padova nell'anno accademico 2013-2014. Di seguito l'abstract del corso:“Nella letteratura, quanto più essa venga colta in quel suo nucleo che la riconduce al tempo e alle ragioni dell'evento della poesia, si propone come il luogo nel quale il rapporto tra umanità e linguaggio si mostra nella sua radicalità. Linguaggio ed evento soggettivo in esso si implicano aldilà di qualsiasi riduzione dell'uno a strumento di comunicazione e dell'altro ad oggetto disponibile per le definizioni dei saperi. Di qui la capacità del gesto poetico di incrociare momenti decisivi della pratica del pensiero filosofico e scientifico come di quello religioso o etico e politico, oltre che di dialogare con i motivi e le modalità essenziali della ricerca estetica.Il corso, procedendo da zone notissime ma ermeneuticamente inesauribili del pensiero platonico, attraverserà testi d'epoche diverse (tutti peraltro ripetutamente interrogati da importanti imprese interpretative novecentesche) sino a giungere ad alcuni momenti del pensiero contemporaneo nei quali l'evocazione della letteratura si rivela una necessità primaria dello stesso esercizio teorico e speculativo.”

Se il mestiere dell'autista di tir piace poco ai giovani è anche per le condizioni di lavoro alle quali è costretto un autotrasportatore. E la carenza di aree di sosta incide su queste condizioni. Non è un fenomeno solo italiano, riguarda un po' tutta l'Europa. Lo confermano i risultati di uno studio della Commissione Europea. Ne parliamo con Marco Di Gioia, segretario generale di Uetr.Per favorire pratiche di guida sicura ecco l'iniziativa di Cna Padova- Rovigo: un simulatore a disposizione degli autotrasportatori che parteciperanno a corsi formativi. Ma ci facciamo spiegare meglio come si sviluppa questo progetto, da Walter Basso, Cna fita Padova.

Ines Testoni"Essere eterni"Manifesto contro la morteIl Saggiatore Editorewww.ilsaggiatore.comUna delle cose che abbiamo compreso nel corso della nostra storia è che la morte è, tra tutte, l'esperienza più universale e ineludibile. Eppure, nello stesso momento in cui noi esseri umani abbiamo realizzato la sua esistenza, abbiamo anche iniziato a desiderare il suo superamento. Questo desiderio ha dato vita nei millenni a superstizioni fugaci e religioni millenarie, visioni mistiche e fantasie letterarie, sistemi filosofici complessi e ricerche scientifiche postumane, ma ognuna di queste soluzioni ha finito per alimentare una ulteriore voglia di allontanare i limiti che la biologia ci ha imposto. In queste pagine Ines Testoni ripercorre la tradizione del pensiero occidentale per offrire nuove risposte a un presente assieme colmo di disincanto rispetto alla possibilità di una vita spirituale dopo la morte e ossessionato dalla necessità di sconfiggere il tempo. Ripercorrendo le riflessioni di Parmenide sul nulla assoluto, «impensabile» e «inesprimibile», e gli studi della psichiatra Elisabeth Kübler-Ross sui malati terminali, la sensazione di eternità provata e descritta tra gli altri da Jorge Luis Borges e le conclusioni di Baruch Spinoza o Emanuele Severino, Testoni tenta di individuare una nuova via per superare il terrore dell'annientamento senza finire in derive autoritarie o nichilistiche. Essere eterni è un manifesto per liberarci dall'angoscia della fine. Un invito a ripensare il rapporto tra tempo, morte e trascendenza in modo non dogmatico, riconoscendo attraverso la ragione ciò che siamo davvero: esseri in bilico tra il desiderio di assoluto e la coscienza della nostra fragilità. Perché quando riusciremo a scoprire ciò che ci rende, da sempre, immortali, allora potremo anche trovare un modo radicalmente nuovo di vivere questa esistenza.Ines Testoni (Brescia, 1957) è professoressa di Psicologia sociale e Psicologia delle relazioni di fine-vita, perdita e morte presso l'Università di Padova, dove dirige anche il master Death Studies & the End of Life e il corso di perfezionamento di CAT: Creative Arts Therapies, finalizzato al supporto di persone discriminate. Con il Saggiatore ha pubblicato Il grande libro della morte (2021) e Il terzo sesso (2023).Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Inizierà intorno alle 19 italiane l'incontro tra Benjamin Netanyahu e Donald Trump che potrebbe, a detta del presidente americano, porre fine alla guerra. Quali sono i punti del piano proposto da Donald Trump e cosa accadrà a Gaza? Ne parliamo con Giovanni Borgognone, professore di Storia delle dottrine politiche all’Università di Torino, e con Michela Mercuri, professoressa di Storia dei Paesi musulmani all'Università di Padova.La Moldova ha scelto di stare con l'Europa. Lo ha fatto in cabina elettorale domenica scorsa, esprimendo più del 50% delle preferenze per il Partito d’azione e solidarietà (Pas). Commentiamo con Isac Mihai, giornalista di TVR Moldova.

Due live di Jazz em Agosto, il festival che si è svolto a Lisbona fra il primo e il 10 del mese scorso, ci hanno sollecitato nella scelta dei due album che Jazz Anthology presenta questa sera. A Jazz em Agosto si è esibita con giradischi ed elettronica Mariam Rezaei, britannica di origini iraniane, che nel suo set ha fatto fra l'altro emergere dei bei passaggi di musica improvvisata presi da The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, quartetto formato da lei stessa, dall'italiano Gabriele Mitelli, trombino, elettronica e voce, dalla danese Mette Rasmussen, sax alto, e dall'austriaco Lukas Koenig, batteria, percussioni e synth: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters è anche il titolo del loro esordio discografico, uscito in maggio, molto convincente per la coesione del quartetto, l'equilibrio fra rumorismo, elettronica e improvvisazione radicale, e la verve delle situazioni. E a Jazz em Agosto, assicurando una coinvolgente chiusura alla rassegna, si è esibita, in settetto, la vibrafonista Patricia Brennan, messicana da vent'anni negli Stati Uniti: il suo Breaking Stretch, pure in settetto, pubblicato dalla Pyroclastic Records, considerato uno dei migliori album di jazz usciti lo scorso anno, coniuga felicemente il senso di un jazz di oggi con l'entusiasmo e la comunicativa. Patricia Brennan sarà a Padova il 24 e 25 ottobre prossimi nell'ambito del Mary Halvorson Special Project proposto dal Centro d'Arte dell'Università, e il primo novembre si esibirà col suo sestetto al Jazzfest di Berlino.

Pubblichiamo il corso di teoria della Letteratura per il triennio dal titolo “Soggetto e linguaggio”, tenutosi presso l'Università di Padova nell'anno accademico 2013-2014. Di seguito l'abstract del corso:“Nella letteratura, quanto più essa venga colta in quel suo nucleo che la riconduce al tempo e alle ragioni dell'evento della poesia, si propone come il luogo nel quale il rapporto tra umanità e linguaggio si mostra nella sua radicalità. Linguaggio ed evento soggettivo in esso si implicano aldilà di qualsiasi riduzione dell'uno a strumento di comunicazione e dell'altro ad oggetto disponibile per le definizioni dei saperi. Di qui la capacità del gesto poetico di incrociare momenti decisivi della pratica del pensiero filosofico e scientifico come di quello religioso o etico e politico, oltre che di dialogare con i motivi e le modalità essenziali della ricerca estetica.Il corso, procedendo da zone notissime ma ermeneuticamente inesauribili del pensiero platonico, attraverserà testi d'epoche diverse (tutti peraltro ripetutamente interrogati da importanti imprese interpretative novecentesche) sino a giungere ad alcuni momenti del pensiero contemporaneo nei quali l'evocazione della letteratura si rivela una necessità primaria dello stesso esercizio teorico e speculativo.”

In questa puntata parliamo di Lambrusco e di letteratura. Tutto merito di Enrico Zucchi, che insegna letteratura italiana all'Università di Padova, e che ha appena pubblicato, per la collana Wingsberth House di Aliberti edizioni, il libro “Lambrusco in Fabula”, ricco di racconti e spunti interessanti, per chi ama questo vino dalla storia così lunga… e anche per chi non lo ama! A cura di Niccolò Vecchia

Dietro le applicazioni cloud e i servizi digitali che usiamo ogni giorno ci sono edifici pieni di server, cavi e impianti di raffreddamento: sono i data center, infrastrutture che custodiscono i nostri messaggi, foto, video, dati sanitari e bancari. In Svizzera e in Italia sono cresciuti a ritmo esponenziale, diventando veri e propri nodi strategici della società digitale. Ma come funzionano? Perché sono diventati infrastrutture critiche al pari di autostrade ed energia elettrica? E che impatto avranno sul territorio e sulla nostra sicurezza?A guidarci nei segreti dei data center saranno: Nicola Moresi, imprenditore ticinese e fondatore di Moresi.com, a lui dobbiamo il primo data center pubblico del Ticino; Marina Natalucci, direttrice degli Osservatori Data Center e Cloud del Politecnico di Milano, che spiega l'impatto ambientale e la geografia delle nuove infrastrutture digitali; Sergio Milesi, presidente della Swiss Data Center Association, che racconta perché la Svizzera è diventata un hub affidabile per i dati; e Marco Bettiol, economista dell'Università di Padova, che osserva la trasformazione delle imprese e l'evoluzione dai colossi “hyperscaler” ai piccoli data center di prossimità.Un'inchiesta per scoprire la parte nascosta — e molto concreta — del nostro quotidiano digitale: Le Fabbriche di Dati.

Marco Campedelli"Le ossa di Antonia"Letteratura minima d'autoreMarietti1820https://www.mariettieditore.it/libro/9788821103483-le-ossa-di-antoniaIl libro raccoglie ritratti e racconti ispirati a una letteratura minima. Cosa si intende con questa espressione? Non la storia raccontata dalla parte del potere e dei potenti, ma quella narrata dai piccoli e dai «perdenti». Si intende anche la grande letteratura che ha intessuto l'immaginario collettivo, fino a essere la terra su cui anche i più semplici hanno trovato l'aquilone a cui appendersi per volare. Vicino alle «ossa di Antonia», la nonna montanara dell'Altopiano di Asiago, ci sono narratrici e narratori, grandi romanzi e la poesia del cinema del Neorealismo. Intrecci che, secondo Marco Campedelli, sono necessari per reggere l'architettura del mondo. Una proposta per riscoprire un pensiero e una prassi in cui poetica e politica trovino la visione e la complicità necessarie per provocare piccole ma inarrestabili rivoluzioni; così da generare quella «bellezza morale» di cui parlava Pier Paolo Pasolini. Un viaggio attento ai dettagli, in cui si manifesta il miracoloso «fremito della terra», e allo sguardo bambino che vede l'invisibile.Marco Campedelli, nato a San Michele Extra (Verona) (le sue antiche genealogie hanno radici nella Lessinia veronese e nell'Altopiano di Asiago), è narratore e teologo. Allievo del maestro burattinaio Nino Pozzo, prosegue il suo Teatro fondato nel 1923. Ha studiato Teologia a Verona e a Padova, conseguendo il dottorato con Aldo Natale Terrin. Ha avuto come maestri i teologi Marcelo Barros e José Maria Castillo. La poetessa Alda Merini per anni gli ha dettato le sue poesie, a lui e alla memoria di Giorgio Gaber ha dedicato Clinica dell'abbandono (2003). Ha pubblicato la trilogia sul Vangelo di Alda Merini (2019), di Dario Fo (2021), di Eduardo De Filippo (2022). I suoi ultimi lavori sono Lessico disobbediente (2024) e Un bene da morire su don Lorenzo Milani edito nel libro a più voci E tu, piccola Barbiana (2024). Scrive sulle riviste Adista e Rocca.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

200 volontari della protezione civile in campo, 90 gli interventi effettuati da ieri sera dai vigili del fuoco. Le situazioni più critiche in Polesine, in particolare a Porto Tolle e a Badia, nell'area di Trebaseleghe e in tutta la zona del Miranese e Noalese dove si sono registrati allagamenti ad abitazioni, scantinati, strade.

Ci sono tre indagati per il pestaggio ai danni di Zakaria Hasnabi, 45enne residente a Chiuppano, picchiato a sangue il 13 luglio scorso a Padova durante la serata finale del Sherwood festival e rimasto in coma farmacologico per tre giorni, dopo essere finito in ospedale con il volto tumefatto e una prognosi di 40 giorni.

Sonia Residori"Morire sul Grappa"Storie da un massacro, 20-29 settembre 1944Donzelli Editorewww.donzelli.itDopo l'Armistizio, sul massiccio del Grappa la Resistenza fu organizzata da un nucleo di antifascisti, ma soprattutto dai militari che avevano deciso di non aderire alla Repubblica sociale, ai quali si unirono successivamente i renitenti alla leva, i prigionieri angloamericani fuggiti dai campi di concentramento italiani e un folto gruppo di carabinieri. Nel settembre del '44, i nazifascisti diedero l'assalto alle formazioni partigiane e per alcuni giorni misero a ferro e fuoco il territorio, bruciando tutto ciò che incontravano. I partigiani resistettero quasi due giorni, finché il comando diede il «Si salvi chi può», da molti ritenuto tardivo. Questo episodio della Resistenza assunse un carattere ancora più doloroso perché, durante i rastrellamenti, i nazisti – con la collaborazione attiva dei fascisti – promisero salvezza a chi si fosse consegnato: molti giovani furono convinti dai familiari a presentarsi spontaneamente ai comandi tedeschi, dove trovarono la morte. L'eccidio del Grappa resta una ferita profonda nella memoria collettiva, per l'assenza di giustizia nei confronti delle vittime e per una controversa presunta responsabilità dei comandi partigiani e della missione inglese nelle tragiche conseguenze che devastarono tante vite umane. Il libro di Sonia Residori fa luce su questa vicenda, dimostrando che la decisione della resistenza militare, contraria a ogni regola della guerriglia, fu dovuta alla falsa notizia – propagata ad arte dai servizi segreti alleati – di un imminente sbarco angloamericano nell'Adriatico, in vista di un'offensiva contro la Linea gotica. Tratti in inganno da queste informazioni del tutto infondate, i partigiani molto probabilmente si sentirono moralmente spinti a resistere, perché pensavano di avere un compito da svolgere, di essere parte di un progetto militare più grande e risolutivo per le sorti della guerra e del loro paese.Sonia Residori, bibliotecaria e studiosa della Resistenza, è docente a contratto di demografia storica presso l'Università di Padova. Tra le sue pubblicazioni più recenti, «Nessuno è rimasto ozioso». La prigionia in Italia durante la Grande Guerra (Franco Angeli, 2019), Sovversive, ribelli e partigiane. Le donne vicentine tra fascismo e Resistenza (Cierre, 2021).Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Umberto Curi"Insegnare a pensare"Festival Filosofiawww.festivalfilosofia.itFestival Filosofia, CarpiVenerdì 19 settembre, ore 20:30Umberto CuriInsegnare a pensareUn'educazione kantiana alla riflessione criticaIn che modo l'educazione filosofica può formare la riflessione critica? Questa lezione prende le mosse da uno dei testi meno noti di Kant, che distingue tra il semplice insegnare pensieri e l'insegnare a pensare, per approfondire come tale distinzione possa orientare la didattica ancora oggi e alimentare la libertà di giudizio come scopo ultimo della formazione. Umberto Curi è professore emerito di Storia della filosofia presso l'Università di Padova. Ha insegnato anche presso l'Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele di Milano. È stato visiting professor presso numerosi atenei europei e americani. Ha diretto la Fondazione culturale Istituto Gramsci-Veneto ed è stato membro del Consiglio direttivo della Biennale di Venezia. Nelle sue ricerche si è occupato della storia dei mutamenti scientifici per ricostruirne la dinamica epistemologica e filosofica, rivolgendosi a uno studio della tradizione filosofica imperniato sulla relazione tra dolore e conoscenza e sui concetti di mythos e logos, amore, guerra, verità, con particolare attenzione per la tragedia e il mito dell'antica Grecia. Nei suoi scritti, ha indagato anche la nozione filosofica di pena e le parole della cura, dedicando, inoltre, studi al rapporto tra il cinema e la filosofia, la poesia e le forme di narrazione contemporanee, il sogno e la realtà. Tra i suoi libri: Straniero (Milano 2010); Via di qua. Imparare a morire (Torino 2011); L'apparire del bello. Nascita di un'idea (Torino 2013); La porta stretta. Come diventare maggiorenni (Torino 2015); I figli di Ares. Guerra infinita e terrorismo (Roma 2016); Le parole della cura. Medicina e filosofia (Milano 2017); Veritas indaganda (Nocera Inferiore SA 2018); Il colore dell'inferno. La pena tra vendetta e giustizia (Torino 2019); Film che pensano. Cinema e filosofia (Milano 2020); Parola ai film (con Bartolo Ayroldi Sagarriga, Milano 2021); La morte del tempo (Bologna 2021); Fedeli al sogno. La sostanza onirica da Omero a Derrida (Torino 2021); Parlare con Dio. Un'indagine fra filosofia e teologia (Torino 2024); Padre e re. Filosofia della guerra (Roma 2024).Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Donald Sassoon"Soft Power e potere politico"Festival Filosofiawww.festivalfilosofia.itFestival Filosofia, MondenaDomenica 21 settembre, ore 18:00Donald SassoonSoft power e potere politicoMercato europeo dei consumi culturali e capitalismo simbolico americanoIn che modo le pratiche di consumo culturale contribuiscono alla costruzione di valori condivisi e alla trasmissione del patrimonio? Questa lezione riflette sulla possibilità di promuovere una cultura e un mercato culturale comuni a livello europeo, interrogandosi sulla loro desiderabilità e realizzabilità nell'epoca del capitalismo simbolico.Donald Sassoon è professore emerito di Storia europea comparata presso la Queen Mary University of London. Allievo dello storico Eric Hobsbawm, è stato ricercatore e professore invitato in diverse università e istituzioni, tra cui l'Università di Innsbruck, la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme di Parigi, il Remarque Institute della New York University, l'Università del Queensland (Brisbane), il Boston College, l'Università di Trento e l'Università di Padova. Ha curato il festival “La Storia in Piazza” di Genova. Profondo conoscitore della storia europea contemporanea, ne ha indagato le trasformazioni politiche, economiche e culturali con particolare attenzione alla formazione delle identità collettive, al ruolo dei media e dell'industria culturale, alla circolazione delle idee e dei modelli politici, ai processi di costruzione della memoria storica e ai mutamenti del capitalismo globale. Ha inoltre studiato le dinamiche del consumo culturale come fattore di coesione sociale e trasmissione del patrimonio, con un interesse specifico per il confronto tra l'evoluzione della cultura europea e l'espansione del capitalismo emotivo di matrice statunitense. È considerato uno dei maggiori storici contemporanei, capace di coniugare l'analisi storica con la lettura delle crisi presenti e delle loro radici nel passato. Collabora con “Il Sole 24 Ore”. Le sue opere sono tradotte in dodici lingue e ha tenuto conferenze in più di trenta paesi. Tra i suoi libri: La cultura degli Europei. Dal 1800 a oggi (Milano 2008); Come nasce un dittatore. Le cause del trionfo di Mussolini (Milano 2010); I buoni e i cattivi nella cultura popolare (Torino 2012); Intervista immaginaria con Karl Marx (Roma 2014); Quo vadis Europa? (Roma 2014); Brexit.Buona fortuna, Europa (Roma 2017); L'alba della contemporaneità. La formazione del mondo moderno, 1860-1914 (Padova 2019); Sintomi morbosi. Nella nostra storia di ieri i segnali della crisi di oggi (Milano 2019); Il trionfo ansioso. Storia globale del capitalismo (Milano 2022); Rivoluzioni. Quando i popoli cambiano la storia (Milano 2024).Donald Sassoon"Rivoluzioni"Quando i popoli cambiano la storiaGarzanti Editorewww.garzanti.itQuando parliamo di rivoluzioni spesso ci riferiamo a singoli eventi, come la presa della Bastiglia o l'assalto al Palazzo d'inverno. Ma in realtà ci vogliono decenni perché una rivoluzione si sviluppi e si esaurisca – sempre che ciò accada. In questo libro Donald Sassoon ripercorre in modo inedito e coinvolgente alcune tra le rivoluzioni più celebri: la guerra civile inglese, che cominciò con l'uccisione di Carlo i e dopo quasi un secolo turbolento diede luogo alla monarchia costituzionale; la guerra d'indipendenza americana, che cacciò i britannici ma non affrontò il problema della schiavitù; la rivoluzione francese, cui dobbiamo la Dichiarazione dei diritti dell'uomo, ma anche lunghi anni di instabilità; le rivoluzioni nazionali che unificarono Italia e Germania; la rivoluzione russa e la rivoluzione cinese, che hanno cambiato il corso del xx secolo. Brillante resoconto degli sconvolgimenti politici che hanno fatto la storia, "Rivoluzioni" è anche un libro ricco di ironia: scopriremo che Yankee Doodle Dandy fu cantato per la prima volta dai soldati inglesi per prendere in giro gli arruffati colonialisti americani, e che la parola «rivoluzione» è diventata d'uso comune proprio quando abbiamo smesso di capire esattamente cosa significhi.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Mario Isnenghi"Corpo docente"Festival Filosofiawww.festivalfilosofia.itFestival Filosofia, SassuoloMario Isnenghi"Corpo docente"Una storia italianaSabato 20 settembre 2025, ore 16:30Quale ruolo storico ha rivestito il corpo docente nella costruzione culturale della nostra nazione? Questa lezione ripercorre alcune trasformazioni della figura dell'insegnante tra l'Unità d'Italia e il dopoguerra, mettendo in luce come la scuola abbia contribuito alla formazione di un ceto intellettuale diffuso e alla creazione di reti culturali e processi di integrazione nazionale. Mario Isnenghi è professore emerito di Storia contemporanea presso l'Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia e presidente onorario dell'Iveser, Istituto veneziano per la storia della Resistenza e della società contemporanea. Ha insegnato anche presso l'Università di Padova e l'Università di Torino, oltre che presso i licei. Le sue ricerche si concentrano sulla storia culturale e politica dell'Italia contemporanea, dalla Prima guerra mondiale al fascismo, dai conflitti fra le memorie alla soggettività ed al discorso pubblico, con particolare attenzione alla memoria collettiva e all'identità nazionale. I suoi studi su questi temi costituiscono un riferimento consolidato nella storiografia contemporanea. Le sue ricerche più recenti proseguono l'autobiografia della nazione, dei suoi intellettuali e delle sue classi dirigenti, con l'analisi delle istituzioni scolastiche e della classe docente, in una panoramica di maestri, professori e autorevoli accademici dal Risorgimento agli anni Sessanta. Tra i suoi libri: Storia d'Italia. I fatti e le percezioni dal Risorgimento alla società dello spettacolo (Roma-Bari 2011); Breve storia d'Italia ad uso dei perplessi (e non) (Roma-Bari 2012); I luoghi della memoria (Roma-Bari nuova ed. 2013, 1a ed. 1996-7); Il mito della Grande Guerra (Bologna nuova ed. 2014, 1a ed. 1970); Ritorni di fiamma. Storie italiane (Milano 2014); Le guerre degli italiani. Parole, immagini, ricordi 1848-1945 (Bologna nuova ed. 2015, 1a ed. 1989); Convertirsi alla guerra. Liquidazioni, mobilitazioni e abiure nell'Italia tra il 1914 e il 1918 (Roma 2015); Oltre Caporetto. La memoria in cammino. Voci dai due fronti (Venezia 2018); Bellum in terris. Mandare, andare, essere in guerra (Roma2019); Vite vissute e no. I luoghi della mia memoria (Bologna 2020); Autobiografia della scuola. Da De Sanctis a don Milani (Bologna 2025).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

*Note: this is the Free Content version of my interview with Dr. Matteo Polato. To access the full interview, please consider becoming a Patreon member; alternately, this episode is available for a one-time purchase under the "Shop" tab. www.patreon.com/RejectedReligionMy guest this month is Dr. Matteo Polato.Matteo is a researcher, sound artist and videogame developer. He works as Senior Research Assistant at the School of Digital Arts of Manchester Metropolitan University, where he has completed his PhD on the roles of sound, vibration and resonance-based processes in contemporary occulture and paranormal practices. His artistic practice spans from electroacoustic composition to free improvisation and psychedelic rock, in solo and with bands such as Mamuthones and Cacotopos. As Yami Kurae – with Jacopo Bortolussi – he develops experimental games inspired by psychogeography and occultural practices. He is co-founder of D∀RK – Dark Arts Research Kollective at MMU, and co- artistic director of the association for experimental music research Centro d'Arte dell'Università di Padova.Matteo's recent article in Revenant Journal dives deep into the sonic and atmospheric dimensions of the paranormal documentary series Hellier. From Reddit threads to academic conferences, Matteo's journey into Fortean soundscapes is as unexpected as it is fascinating.Matteo recounts his initial encounter with Hellier and how its unique approach to paranormal investigation inspired him to analyze it academically. Unlike typical ghost-hunting shows, Hellier emphasizes experiential and atmospheric elements, which resonated with his interests in sound studies and Fortean phenomena.Matteo's article shifts the lens from why paranormal entities emerge to how sensory experiences (especially sound) create a sense of supernatural agency. He uses Hellier as a case study to explore this dynamic, drawing from sound studies and concepts like: the eerie, affective atmospheres, & agency and attunement.Matteo argues that sonic interactions and “listening ecologies” are central to how Hellier portrays paranormal phenomena. He explains how sound is not just a medium but a method of engaging with unseen forces. Examples from the series include:Ritualistic listening sessionsUse of the Estes Method vs. traditional EVPAmbient silence as a communicative spaceHellier stands out by blending folklore, psychology, ritual, and media theory. Matteo emphasizes the importance of this holistic method, which allows the investigators to explore the paranormal not just as spectacle, but as a lived, felt experience.Whether you're a fan of Hellier, curious about the intersection of sound studies and the supernatural, or just love a good mystery, this episode will tune you into a whole new frequency of thought. PROGRAM NOTES  Revenant JournalRevenantThe Atmospheric Forteanism of Hellier and the Role of Sound in Recent Practices of Paranormal Investigation : Revenant DVRK:https://www.instagram.com/dvrk_mcr/ DVRK Editions Label:https://dvrkmusic.bandcamp.com/ Videogame stuff:https://yamikurae.itch.io/ Mamuthones Band:https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/artist/0JeuJ0H0Q54p6kTuHJSCIA D∀RK: Dark ∀rts Research Kollective (@dvrk_mcr) • Instagram photos and videos Yami Kurae (@yami_kurae) • Instagram photos and videos Instagram Music and Editing: Daniel P. SheaEnd Production: Stephanie Shea 

L'ospite di questa settimana è AMIN SHARIF, illustratore. Amin sarà uno dei protagonisti di Autori in Città, festival di illustrazione e narrazione, che si svolgerà a Padova dal 11 al 14 Settembre. Potrai partecipare a mostre, seminari, firmacopie, workshop per bambini e adulti, e incontrare tanti bravissimi illustratori e autori di albi illustrati.Ad Amin sarà dedicata una personale e terrà un workshop sulla tecnica dello scratchboard.Oggi partiamo per l'Iran, dov'è nato Amin, autore di numerosi albi illustrati in Italia e all'estero, tra cui “L'albero azzurro” e “Verso”, pubblicati da Kite Editioni.  Nell'episodio di questa settimana parliamo di aquile, tappeti, emozioni e tanto altro ancora.Ogni settimana una nuova storia, una nuova vita, dietro le immagini.Questo è un podcast indipendente. Clicca i link qui di seguito per: Diventare un mio PATREON e sostenere questo podcast con un piccolo contributo per coprire le spese di produzione ed aiutarmi a continuare questo progetto;Ricevere la NEWSLETTER de “Il Mondo Invisibile” in cui condivido cosa imparo ogni settimana dagli ospiti del podcast e cosa voglio ricordare per la mia pratica creativa; Ascoltare il podcast anche su YOUTUBE; Seguire l'account Instagram @ilmondoinvisibilepodcast e la pagina facebook con lo stesso nome, per vedere le opere degli artisti, e per mandarmi i tuoi commenti. Grazie milleA presto! 

L'ospite di questa settimana è RICHOLLY ROSAZZA, illustratore. Richolly sarà uno dei protagonisti di Autori in Città, festival di illustrazione e narrazione, che si svolgerà a Padova dal 11 al 14 Settembre, quattro giorni in cui potrai partecipare a mostre, seminari, firmacopie, workshop per bambini e adulti, e incontrare tanti bravissimi illustratori e autori di albi illustrati.Richolly è un artista nato in Perù e che vive in Italia dal 2007. Ha creato nei suoi albi illustrati un mondo pieno di vita e colori, dal sapore magico, che ci porta l'aria del Sud America. Nell'episodio di questa settimana parliamo di bambini, animali, dei e tanto altro ancora.Ogni settimana una nuova storia, una nuova vita, dietro le immagini.Questo è un podcast indipendente. Clicca i link qui di seguito per: Diventare un mio PATREON e sostenere questo podcast con un piccolo contributo per coprire le spese di produzione ed aiutarmi a continuare questo progetto;Ricevere la NEWSLETTER de “Il Mondo Invisibile” in cui condivido cosa imparo ogni settimana dagli ospiti del podcast e cosa voglio ricordare per la mia pratica creativa;Ascoltare il podcast anche su YOUTUBE; Seguire l'account INSTAGRAM @ilmondoinvisibilepodcast e la pagina facebook con lo stesso nome, per vedere le opere degli artisti, e per mandarmi i tuoi commenti. Grazie milleA presto! 

The race for the USMNT No. 9 spot is heating up, and Alexi Lalas and David Mosse are here to sort it all out. From Josh Sargent's red-hot start at Norwich, to Haji Wright's assist at Coventry, to Ricardo Pepi's fitness update and transfer buzz, we break down all the big striker performances abroad. Plus, Alexi unveils his USMNT striker depth chart.The guys also go around the globe with USMNT Abroad updates. Johnny Cardoso looks to make his Atletico Madrid debut, Diego Kochen has the potential to start for Barcelona, and the latest on Jedi Robinson's injury. Back stateside, we preview the MLS weekend with Minnesota and Seattle facing off on FS1, and everyone is asking the big question…will we see Messi suit up against the Galaxy?Then we take some fan questions including which nation outside Europe or South America could win the World Cup first, and why Alexi left Padova during Serie A's golden era. Finally, in One for the Road, the new Pulisic documentary sparks major reactions from Christian Pulisic, Tim Weah, and even Mark Pulisic about criticism from USMNT alumni. Alexi weighs in… and trust us, you'll want to hear this one. Intro (0:00)USMNT Striker Battle (5:30)Alexi's Depth Chart (15:45)USMNT Abroad: La Liga & EPL Kick Off (20:15)Jedi Robinson In Doubt for Season Opener (27:44)White Hot Seattle Sounders (31:23)Will Messi Return? (32:38)#AskAlexi: Non European or South American Country to Win the World Cup? (33:15)One for the Road: Calling Out the Critics (43:32) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lorenzo Braccesi"Il grande Nilo"Esploratori, turisti e conquistatori nell'antico EgittoLaterza Editoriwww.laterza.it«Alessandro, il sommo dei re, adorato da Menfi, invidiando il segreto del Nilo mandò agli estremi confini dell'Etiopia uomini scelti; ma li arrestò la zona rovente del torrido clima; videro il Nilo ribollire».Con queste parole, secondo il poeta Lucano, un sacerdote egizio avrebbe dissuaso Giulio Cesare dal ricercare le sorgenti del Nilo. Se il grande Alessandro aveva fallito, era dissennato che altri tentassero. Ma il buonsenso non si addiceva alla tempra dei grandi uomini, soprattutto se si trattava di despoti che esibivano il proprio eroismo nell'impresa tentata, non necessariamente riuscita. Andrea GiardinaIl fascino del Nilo è antichissimo. Il mistero di questo fiume, capace di attraversare il deserto e di donare vita e fertilità con le sue piene a un ambiente ostile, ha nutrito miti e immaginario della millenaria civiltà egizia. Con il tramonto dell'Egitto faraonico, i successivi conquistatori stranieri hanno cominciato ad andare alla ricerca delle sorgenti di questo fiume immenso, motivati dalla volontà di scoperta e di conquista. Prima i Persiani, dopo due secoli i Macedoni, poi i Romani e infine, per breve durata, i Palmireni: tutti i dominatori di turno, o coloro che aspirarono a esserlo, si cimentarono in spedizioni verso i deserti della Nubia e le oasi dell'alto Nilo. I nomi dei protagonisti di queste avventure sono di assoluto primo piano: da Cambise ad Alessandro, da Tolomeo Filadelfo a Cesare, da Augusto a Germanico, fino, da ultimo, a Nerone. Una passione che si riaccenderà solo molti secoli dopo, a seguito della spedizione di Napoleone e dell'apertura del Canale di Suez. Dietro a questi viaggi e queste spedizioni si nascondevano interessi molto concreti: il desiderio di controllare lucrose vie carovaniere, il proposito di sfruttare i fantastici giacimenti di oro e di pietre preziose delle regioni nubiane. Ma su tutto domina, necessario accessorio della propria gloria, la volontà di toccare mete mai prima da alcuno raggiunte in un'esplorazione fluviale del Meridione dell'ecumene.Lorenzo Braccesi è stato professore ordinario di Storia greca nelle Università di Torino, Venezia e Padova. I temi della sua ricerca storica sono la colonizzazione greca, l'ideologia e la propaganda nel mondo antico, l'eredità della cultura classica nelle letterature moderne. Tra le sue più recenti pubblicazioni, Augusto. La vita raccontata da lui stesso (2013) e Ionios Poros. La Porta dell'Occidente (2014). Per Laterza è autore di: I tiranni di Sicilia (1998); I Greci delle periferie (2003); Guida allo studio della storia greca (2005); Sulle rotte di Ulisse. L'invenzione della geografia omerica (2010); Giulia, la figlia di Augusto (2012); Agrippina, la sposa di un mito (2015); Arrivano i barbari. Le guerre persiane tra poesia e memoria (2020).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

“Massimiliano Maria Kolbe. Una Luce nell'Abisso” di Luigi Maria Epicoco. Padova, Basilica di S. Antonio , 9 giugno 2025.

Elena Rui"Vedove di Camus"L'Orma Editorewww.lormaeditore.it«Esistono dubbi sul fatto che abbia amato Casarès, l'Unica? Le ha amate tutte, a suo modo, alcune più di altre, e Maria più di tutte, forse. Amate come un uomo, con la vanità di un uomo, l'egoismo di un uomo.»Il 4 gennaio 1960, la Facel Vega guidata dal celebre editore Michel Gallimard sfreccia lungo una strada della Borgogna e va a schiantarsi contro un platano. Sul sedile del passeggero, Albert Camus, che solo tre anni prima era stato insignito del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, muore sul colpo. Mentre il mondo intero rimane attonito, orfano di uno dei più grandi intellettuali del Novecento, quattro donne si ritrovano all'improvviso “vedove” dell'uomo che amavano: la moglie Francine Faure, la brillante attrice Catherine Sellers, la giovane pittrice Mette Ivers, di origini danesi, e Maria Casarès, immensa interprete del teatro francese, che Camus stesso – fedele ai paradossi del sentimento – definiva «l'Unica».Con estro e rigore, Elena Rui indaga le vite e le voci di queste quattro figure femminili di fronte all'ineluttabilità della disgrazia. Si imbastisce così «un discorso sull'amore» che rifiuta viete certezze morali per restituire la trama sottile, contraddittoria e irriducibile degli affetti, offrendo a chi legge la libertà – e l'onere – di interrogarsi sui confini e sugli abissi dei rapporti umani.Elena Rui, nata a Padova nel 1980, vive in Francia dal 2005. Ha insegnato italiano ad Albi, Tolosa e Parigi. Ha già pubblicato La famiglia degli altri (Garzanti, 2021) e la raccolta di racconti Affetti non desiderati (Arkadia, 2024). Vedove di Camus è il suo ultimo romanzo.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

David Mayernik is an architect, artist, writer, educator and most of all, he is a life-long student. David grew up in Allentown Pennsylvania. As he tells us during this episode, even at a young age of two he already loved to draw. He says he always had a pencil and paper with him and he used them constantly. His mother kept many of his drawings and he still has many of them to this day.   After graduating from University of Notre Dame David held several positions with various architectural firms. He always believed that he learned more by teaching himself, however, and eventually he decided to leave the professional world of architecture and took teaching positions at Notre Dame. He recently retired and is now Professor Emeritus at Notre Dame.   Our conversation is far ranging including discussions of life, the importance of learning and growing by listening to your inner self. David offers us many wonderful and insightful lessons and thoughts we all can use. We even talk some about about how technology such as Computer Aided Design systems, (CAD), are affecting the world of Architecture. I know you will enjoy what David has to say. Please let me know your thoughts through email at michaelhi@accessibe.com.     About the Guest:   David Mayernik is an architect, artist, writer, and educator. He was born in 1960 in Allentown, Pennsylvania; his parents were children of immigrants from Slovakia and Italy. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the British Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, and has won numerous grants, awards and competitions, including the Gabriel Prize for research in France, the Steedman Competition, and the Minnesota State Capitol Grounds competition (with then partner Thomas N. Rajkovich). In 1995 he was named to the decennial list of the top forty architects in the United States under forty. In the fall of 2022, he was a resident at the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria and the Cini foundation in Venice.   His design work for the TASIS campus in Switzerland over twenty-eight years has been recognized with a Palladio Award from Traditional Building magazine, an honorable mention in the INTBAU Excellence Awards, and a jury prize from the Prix Européen d'Architecture Philippe Rotthier. TASIS Switzerland was named one of the nine most beautiful boarding schools in the world by AD Magazine in March 2024. For ten years he also designed a series of new buildings for TASIS England in Surrey.   David Mayernik studied fresco painting with the renowned restorer Leonetto Tintori, and he has painted frescoes for the American Academy in Rome, churches in the Mugello and Ticino, and various buildings on the TASIS campus in Switzerland. He designed stage sets for the Haymarket Opera company of Chicago for four seasons between 2012 and 2014. He won the competition to paint the Palio for his adopted home of Lucca in 2013. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, London, Innsbruck, Rome, and Padova and featured in various magazines, including American Artist and Fine Art Connoisseur.   David Mayernik is Professor Emeritus with the University of Notre Dame, where for twenty years he taught in the School of Architecture. He is the author of two books, The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture (Routledge, UK) and Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy, (Basic Books), and numerous essays and book chapters, including “The Baroque City” for the Oxford Handbook of the Baroque. In 2016 he created the online course The Meaning of Rome for Notre Dame, hosted on the edX platform, which had an audience of six thousand followers. Ways to connect with David:   Website: www.davidmayernik.com Instagram: davidmayernik LinkedIn: davidmayernik EdX: The Meaning of Rome https://www.edx.org/learn/humanities/university-of-notre-dame-the-meaning-of-rome-the-renaissance-and-baroque-city     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:17 Well, hi and welcome once again. Wherever you happen to be, to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to chat with David Mayernik, unless you're in Europe, and then it's David Mayernik, but either way, we're glad to have him. He is an architect. He is an award winning architect. He's an author. He's done a number of things in his life, and we're going to talk about all of those, and it's kind of more fun to let him be the one to talk more about it, and then I can just pick up and ask questions as we go, and that's what we'll do. But we're really glad that he's here. So David, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   David Mayernik ** 01:57 Oh, thanks so much. Michael, thanks for the invitation. I'm looking forward to it.   Michael Hingson ** 02:02 Well, I know we've been working on getting this set up, and David actually happens to be in Italy today, as opposed to being in the US. He was a professor at Notre Dame for 20 years, but he has spent a lot of time in Europe and elsewhere, and I'm sure he's going to talk about that. But why don't we start, as I mentioned earlier, as I love to do, tell us kind of about the early David growing up.   David Mayernik ** 02:25 Well, so my both of my parents passed away several years ago, and when I was at my mom's funeral, one of our next door neighbors was telling my wife what I was like when I was a kid, and she said he was very quiet and very intense. And I suppose that's how I was perceived. I'm not sure I perceived myself that way I did. The thing about me is I've always drawn my mom. I mean, lots of kids draw, but I drew like credibly, well, when I was, you know, two and three years old. And of course, my mother saved everything. But the best thing about it was that I always had paper and pencil available. You know, we were terribly well off. We weren't poor, but we weren't, you know, well to do, but I never lacked for paper and pencils, and that just allowed me to just draw as much as I possibly could.   Michael Hingson ** 03:16 And so I guess the other question is, of course, do you still have all those old drawings since your mom kept   David Mayernik ** 03:23 them? Well, you know? Yeah, actually, after she passed, I did get her, Well, her collection of them. I don't know that all of them. My father had a penchant for throwing things away, unfortunately. So some of the archive is no longer with us, but no but enough of it. Just odds and bits from different areas of my life. And the thing is, you know, I was encouraged enough. I mean, all kids get encouraged. I think when they're young, everything they do is fabulous, but I had enough encouragement from people who seem to take it seriously that I thought maybe I had something and and it was the kind of thing that allowed me to have enough confidence in myself that I actually enjoyed doing it and and mostly, my parents were just impressed. You know, it just was impressive to them. And so I just happily went along my own way. The thing about it was that I really wanted to find my own path as somebody who drew and had a chance in high school for a scholarship to a local art school. I won a competition for a local art school scholarship, and I went for a couple of lessons, and I thought, you know, they're just teaching me to draw like them. I want to draw like me. So for better or worse, I'm one of those autodidacts who tries to find my own way, and, you know, it has its ups and downs. I mean, the downside of it is it's a slower learning process. Is a lot more trial and error. But the upside of it is, is that it's your own. I mean, essentially, I had enough of an ego that, you know, I really wanted to do. Things my way.   Michael Hingson ** 05:02 Well, you illustrate something that I've believed and articulate now I didn't used to, but I do now a lot more, which is I'm my own best teacher. And the reality is that you you learn by doing, and people can can give you information. And, yeah, you're right. Probably they wanted you to mostly just draw like them. But the bottom line is, you already knew from years of drawing as a child, you wanted to perhaps go a slightly different way, and you worked at it, and it may have taken longer, but look at what you learned.   David Mayernik ** 05:37 Yeah, I think it's, I mean, for me, it's, it's important that whatever you do, you do because you feel like you're being true to yourself somehow. I mean, I think that at least that's always been important to me, is that I don't, I don't like doing things for the sake of doing them. I like doing them because I think they matter. And I like, you know, I think essentially pursuing my own way of doing it meant that it always was, I mean, beyond just personal, it was something I was really committed to. And you know, the thing about it, eventually, for my parents was they thought it was fabulous, you know, loved great that you draw, but surely you don't intend to be an artist, because, you know, you want to have a job and make a living. And so I eventually realized that in high school, that while they, well, they probably would have supported anything I did that, you know, I was being nudged towards something a little bit more practical, which I think happens to a lot of kids who choose architecture like I did. It's a way, it's a practical way of being an artist and and that's we could talk about that. But I think that's not always true.   Michael Hingson ** 06:41 Bill, go ahead, talk about that. Well, I think that the   David Mayernik ** 06:44 thing about architecture is that it's become, well, one it became a profession in America, really, in the 20th century. I mean, it's in the sense that there was a licensing exam and all the requirements of what we think of as, you know, a professional service that, you know, like being a lawyer or a doctor, that architecture was sort of professionalized in the 20th century, at least in the United States. And, and it's a business, you know, ostensibly, I mean, you're, you know, you're doing what you do for a fee. And, and so architecture tries to balance the art part of it, or the creative side, the professional side of it, and the business side. And usually it's some rather imperfect version of all of those things. And the hard part, I think the hardest part to keep alive is the art part, because the business stuff and the professional stuff can really kind of take over. And that's been my trial. Challenge is to try to have it all three ways, essentially.   Michael Hingson ** 07:39 Do you think that Frank Lloyd Wright had a lot to do with bringing architecture more to the forefront of mindsets, mindsets, and also, of course, from an art standpoint, clearly, he had his own way of doing things.   David Mayernik ** 07:54 Yeah, absolutely he comes from, I mean, I wouldn't call it a rebellious tradition, but there was a streak of chafing at East Coast European classicism that happened in Chicago. Louis Sullivan, you know, is mostly responsible for that. And I but, but Right, had this, you know, kind of heroic sense of himself and and I think that his ability to draw, which was phenomenal. His sense that he wanted to do something different, and his sense that he wanted to do something American, made him a kind of a hero. Eventually, I think it coincided with America's growing sense of itself. And so for me, like lot of kids in America, my from my day, if you told somebody in high school you wanted to be an architect, they would give you a book on Frank Lloyd Wright. I mean, that's just, you know, part of the package.   Michael Hingson ** 08:47 Yeah, of course, there are others as well, but still, he brought a lot into it. And of course there, there are now more architects that we hear about and designers and so on the people what, I m Pei, who designed the world, original World Trade Center and other things like that. Clearly, there are a number of people who have made major impacts on the way we design and think of Building and Construction today,   David Mayernik ** 09:17 you know, I mean America's, you know, be kind of, it really was a leader in the development of architecture in the 20th century. I mean, in the 19th century was very much, you know, following what was happening in Europe. But essentially, by the 20th century, the America had a sense of itself that didn't always mean that it rejected the European tradition. Sometimes it tried to do it, just bigger and better, but, but it also felt like it had its, you know, almost a responsibility to find its own way, like me and, you know, come up with an American kind of architecture and and so it's always been in a kind of dialog with architecture from around the world. I mean, especially in Europe, at Frank Lloyd Wright was heavily influenced by Japanese architecture and. And so we've always seen ourselves, I think, in relationship to the world. And it's just the question of whether we were master or pupil to a certain extent,   Michael Hingson ** 10:07 and in reality, probably a little bit of both.   David Mayernik ** 10:12 Yeah, and we are, and I think, you know, acknowledging who we are, the fact that we didn't just, you know, spring from the earth in the United States, where we're all, I mean, essentially all immigrants, mostly, and essentially we, you know, essentially bring, we have baggage, essentially, as a culture, from lots of other places. And that's actually an advantage. I mean, I think it's actually what makes us a rich culture, is the diversity. I mean, even me, my father's family was Slovak, my mother's family Italian. And, you know from when I tell you know Europeans that they think that's just quintessentially American. That's what makes you an American, is that you're not a purebred of some kind.   Michael Hingson ** 10:49 Yeah, yeah. Pure purebred American is, is really sort of nebulous and and not necessarily overly accurate, because you are probably immigrants or part other kinds of races or nationalities as well. And that's, that's okay.   David Mayernik ** 11:08 It's, it's rich, you know, I think it's, it's a richer. It's the extent to which you want to engage with it. And the interesting thing about my parents was that they were both children of first generation immigrants. My mom's parents had been older Italian, and they were already married, and when they came to the States, my father's parents were younger and Slovak, and they met in the United States. And my father really wasn't that interested in his Slovak heritage. I mean, just, you know, he could speak some of the language, you know, really feel like it was something he wanted to hold on to or pass along, was my mom was, I mean, she loved her parents. She, you know, spoke with him in Italian, or actually not even Italian, the dialect from where her parents came from, which is north of Venice. And so she, I think she kind of, whether consciously or unconsciously, passed that on to me, that sense that I wanted to be. I was interested in where I came from, where the origins of my where my roots were, and it's something that had an appeal for me that wasn't just it wasn't front brain, it was really kind of built into who I was, which is why, you know, one of the reasons I chose to go to Notre Dame to study where I also wound up teaching like, welcome back Carter, is that I we had a Rome program, and so I've been teaching in the Rome program for our school, but we, I was there 44 years ago as a student.   Michael Hingson ** 12:28 Yeah. So quite a while, needless to say. And you know, I think, well, my grandmother on my mother's side was Polish, but I I never did get much in the way of information about the culture and so on from her and and my mom never really dealt with it much, because she was totally from The Bronx in New York, and was always just American, so I never really got a lot of that. But very frankly, in talking to so many people on this podcast over almost the last four years, talking to a number of people whose parents and grandparents all came to this country and how that affected them. It makes me really appreciate the kind of people who we all are, and we all are, are a conglomerate of so many different cultures, and that's okay, yeah? I mean,   David Mayernik ** 13:31 I think it's more than okay, and I think we need to just be honest about it, yeah. And, you know, kind of celebrate it, because the Italians brought with them, you know, tremendous skills. For example, a lot of my grandfather was a stone mason. You know, during the Depression, he worked, you know, the for the WPA essentially sponsored a whole series of public works projects in the parks in the town I grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. And Allentown has a fabulous park system. And my grandfather built a lot of stone walls in the parks in the 1930s and, you know, all these cultures that came to the states often brought, you know, specialized skills. You know, from where they they came from, and, and they enriched the American, you know, skill set, essentially, and, and that's, you know, again, that's we are, who we are because of that, you know, I celebrated I, you know, I'm especially connected to my Italian heritage. I feel like, in part because my grandfather, the stone mason, was a bit of jack of all trades. He could paint and draw. And my mom, you know, wrote poetry and painted. And even though she mostly, you know, in my life, was a was a housewife, but before she met my father, and they got married relatively late for their day, she had a professional life in World War Two, my mom actually went to Penn State for a couple of years in the start of at the start of the war, and then parents wanted her to come home, and so she did two years of engineering. Penn State. When she came back to Allentown, she actually got a job at the local airplane manufacturing plant that was making fighter planes for the United States called company called volte, and she did drafting for them. And then after World War Two, she got a job for the local power company drafting modern electrical kitchens and and so I've inherited all my mom's drafting equipment. And, you know, she's, she's very much a kind of a child of the culture that she came from, and in the sense that it was a, you know, artistic culture, a creative culture. And, you know, I definitely happy and proud of   Michael Hingson ** 15:37 that. You know, one of the things that impresses me, and I think about a lot in talking to so many people whose parents and grandparents immigrated to this country and so on, is not just the skill sets that they brought, but the work ethic that they had, that they imparted to people. And I think people who have had a number of generations here have not always kept that, and I think they've lost something very valuable, because that work ethic is what made those people who they were   David Mayernik ** 16:08 absolutely I mean, my Yeah, I mean my father. I mean absolutely true is, I mean tireless worker, capable of tremendous self sacrifice and and, you know, and that whole generation, I mean, he fought in World War Two. He actually joined, joined the Navy underage. He lied about his age to get in the Navy and that. But they were capable of self, tremendous self sacrifice and tremendous effort. And, you know, I think, you know, we're always, you know, these days, we always talk about work life balance. And I have to say, being an architect, most architects don't have a great work life balance. Mostly it's, it's a lot of work and a little bit of life. And that's, I don't, you know. I think not everybody survives that. Not every architects marriage survives that mine has. But I think it's, you know, that the idea that you're, you're sort of defined by what you do. I think there's a lot of talk these days about that's not a good thing. I I'm sort of okay with that. I'm sort of okay with being defined by what I do.   Michael Hingson ** 17:13 Yeah, and, and that that's, that's okay, especially if you're okay with it. That's good. Well, you So you went to Notre Dame, and obviously dealt with architecture. There some,   David Mayernik ** 17:28 yeah. I mean, the thing, the great thing about Notre Dame is to have the Rome program, and that was the idea of actually a Sicilian immigrant to the States in the early 20th century who became a professor at Notre Dame. And he had, he won the Paris prize. A guy named Frank Montana who won the Paris prize in the 1930s went to Harvard and was a professor at Notre Dame. And he had the good idea that, you know, maybe sending kids to five years of architecture education in Indiana, maybe wasn't the best, well rounded education possible, and maybe they should get out of South Bend for a year, and he, on his own initiative, without even support from the university, started a Rome program, and then said to the university, hey, we have a Rome program now. And so that was, that was his instinct to do that. And while I got, I think, a great education there, especially after Rome, the professor, one professor I had after Rome, was exceptional for me. But you know, Rome was just the opportunity to see great architecture. I mean, I had seen some. I mean, I, you know, my parents would go to Philadelphia, New York and, you know, we I saw some things. But, you know, I wasn't really bowled over by architecture until I went to Rome. And just the experience of that really changed my life, and it gave me a direction,   Michael Hingson ** 18:41 essentially. So the Rome program would send you to Rome for a year.   David Mayernik ** 18:46 Yeah, which is unusual too, because a lot of overseas programs do a semester. We were unusual in that the third year out of a five year undergraduate degree in architecture, the whole year is spent in Rome. And you know, when you're 20 ish, you know, 20 I turned 21 when I was over there. It's a real transition time in your life. I mean, it's, it was really transformative. And for all of us, small of my classmates, I mean, we're all kind of grew up. We all became a bit, you know, European. We stopped going to football games when we went back on campus, because it wasn't cool anymore, but, but we, we definitely were transformed by it personally, but, it really opened our eyes to what architecture was capable of, and that once you've, once you've kind of seen that, you know, once you've been to the top of the mountain, kind of thing, it can really get under your skin. And, you know, kind of sponsor whatever you do for the rest of your life. At least for me, it   Michael Hingson ** 19:35 did, yeah, yeah. So what did you do after you graduated?   David Mayernik ** 19:40 Well, I graduated, and I think also a lot of our students lately have had a pretty reasonably good economy over the last couple of decades, that where it's been pretty easy for our students to get a job. I graduated in a recession. I pounded the pavements a lot. I went, you know, staying with my parents and. Allentown, went back and forth to New York, knocking on doors. There was actually a woman who worked at the unemployment agency in New York who specialized in architects, and she would arrange interviews with firms. And, you know, I just got something for the summer, essentially, and then finally, got a job in the in the fall for somebody I wanted to work with in Philadelphia and and that guy left that firm after about three months because he won a competition. He didn't take me with him, and I was in a firm that really didn't want to be with. I wanted to be with him, not with the firm. And so I then I picked up stakes and moved to Chicago and worked for an architect who'd been a visiting professor at Notre Dame eventually became dean at Yale Tom Beebe, and it was a great learning experience, but it was also a lot of hours at low pay. You know, I don't think, I don't think my students, I can't even tell my students what I used to make an hour as a young architect. I don't think they would understand, yeah, I mean, I really don't, but it was, it was a it was the sense that you were, that your early years was a kind of, I mean an apprenticeship. I mean almost an unpaid apprenticeship at some level. I mean, I needed to make enough money to pay the rent and eat, but that was about it. And and so I did that, but I bounced around a lot, you know, and a lot of kids, I think a lot of our students, when they graduate, they think that getting a job is like a marriage, like they're going to be in it forever. And, you know, I, for better or worse, I moved around a lot. I mean, I moved every time I hit what I felt was like a point of diminishing returns. When I felt like I was putting more in and getting less out, I thought it was time to go and try something else. And I don't know that's always good advice. I mean, it can make you look flighty or unstable, but I kind of always followed my my instinct on that.   Michael Hingson ** 21:57 I don't remember how old I was. You're talking about wages. But I remember it was a Sunday, and my parents were reading the newspaper, and they got into a discussion just about the fact that the minimum wage had just been changed to be $1.50 an hour. I had no concept of all of that. But of course, now looking back on it, $1.50 an hour, and looking at it now, it's pretty amazing. And in a sense, $1.50 an hour, and now we're talking about $15 and $16 an hour, and I had to be, I'm sure, under 10. So it was sometime between 1958 and 1960 or so, or maybe 61 I don't remember exactly when, but in a sense, looking at it now, I'm not sure that the minimum wage has gone up all that much. Yes, 10 times what it was. But so many other things are a whole lot more than 10 times what they were back then,   David Mayernik ** 23:01 absolutely, yeah. I mean, I mean, in some ways also, my father was a, my father was a factory worker. I mean, he tried to have lots of other businesses of his own. He, you're, you're obviously a great salesman. And the one skill my father didn't have is he could, he could, like, for example, he had a home building business. He could build a great house. He just couldn't sell it. And so, you know, I think he was a factory worker, but he was able to send my sister and I to private college simultaneously on a factory worker salary, you know, with, with, I mean, I had some student loan debt, but not a lot. And that's, that's not possible today.   Michael Hingson ** 23:42 No, he saved and put money aside so that you could do that, yeah, and,   David Mayernik ** 23:47 and he made enough. I mean, essentially, the cost of college was not that much. And he was, you know, right, yeah. And he had a union job. It was, you know, reasonably well paid. I mean, we lived in a, you know, a nice middle class neighborhood, and, you know, we, we had a nice life growing up, and he was able to again, send us to college. And I that's just not possible for without tremendous amount of debt. It's not possible today. So the whole scale of our economy shifted tremendously. What I was making when I was a young architect. I mean, it was not a lot then, but I survived. Fact, actually saved money in Chicago for a two month summer in Europe after that. So, you know, essentially, the cost of living was, it didn't take a lot to cover your your expenses, right? The advantage of that for me was that it allowed me time when I had free time when I after that experience, and I traveled to Europe, I came back and I worked in Philadelphia for the same guy who had left the old firm in Philadelphia and went off on his own, started his own business. I worked for him for about nine months, but I had time in the evenings, because I didn't have to work 80 hours a week to do other things. I taught myself how to paint. And do things that I was interested in, and I could experiment and try things and and, you know, because surviving wasn't all that hard. I mean, it was easy to pay your bills and, and I think that's one of the things that's, I think, become more onerous, is that, I think for a lot of young people just kind of dealing with both college debt and then, you know, essentially the cost of living. They don't have a lot of time or energy to do anything else. And you know, for me, that was, I had the luxury of having time and energy to invest in my own growth, let's say as a more career, as a creative person. And you know, I also, I also tell students that, you know, there are a lot of hours in the day, you know, and whatever you're doing in an office. There are a lot of hours after that, you could be doing something else, and that I used every one of those hours as best I could.   Michael Hingson ** 25:50 Yeah. Well, you know, we're all born with challenges in life. What kind of challenges, real challenges did you have growing up as you look back on it?   David Mayernik ** 26:01 Yeah, my, I mean, my, I mean, there was some, there was some, a few rocky times when my father was trying to have his own business. And, you know, I'm not saying we grew up. We didn't struggle, but it wasn't, you know, always smooth sailing. But I think one of the things I learned about being an architect, which I didn't realize, and only kind of has been brought home to me later. Right now, I have somebody who's told me not that long ago, you know? You know, the problem is, architecture is a gentleman's profession. You know that IT architecture, historically was practiced by people from a social class, who knew, essentially, they grew up with the people who would become their clients, right? And so the way a lot of architects built their practice was essentially on, you know, family connections and personal connections, college connections. And I didn't have that advantage. So, you know, I've, I've essentially had to define myself or establish myself based on what I'm capable of doing. And you know, it's not always a level playing field. The great breakthrough for me, in a lot of ways, was that one of the one of my classmates and I entered a big international competition when we were essentially 25 years old. I think we entered. I turned 26 and it was an open competition. So, you know, no professional requirements. You know, virtually no entry fee to redesign the state capitol grounds of Minnesota, and it was international, and we, and we actually were selected as one of the top five teams that were allowed to proceed onto the second phase, and at which point we we weren't licensed architects. We didn't have a lot of professional sense or business sense, so we had to associate with a local firm in Minnesota and and we competed for the final phase. We did most of the work. The firm supported us, but they gave us basically professional credibility and and we won. We were the architects of the state capitol grounds in Minnesota, 26 years old, and that's because the that system of competition was basically a level playing field. It was, you know, ostensibly anonymous, at least the first phase, and it was just basically who had the best design. And you know, a lot of the way architecture gets architects get chosen. The way architecture gets distributed is connections, reputation, things like that, but, but you know, when you find those avenues where it's kind of a level playing field and you get to show your stuff. It doesn't matter where you grew up or who you are, it just matters how good you are, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 28:47 well, and do you think it's still that way today?   David Mayernik ** 28:51 There are a lot fewer open professional competitions. They're just a lot fewer of them. It was the and, you know, maybe they learned a lesson. I mean, maybe people like me shouldn't have been winning competitions. I mean, at some level, we were out of our league. I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say, from a design point of view. I mean, we were very capable of doing what the project involved, but we were not ready for the hardball of collaborating with a big firm and and the and the politics of what we were doing and the business side of it, we got kind of crushed, and, and, and eventually they never had the money to build the project, so the project just kind of evaporated. And the guy I used to work with in Philadelphia told me, after I won the competition, he said, you know, because he won a competition. He said, You know, the second project is the hardest one to get, you know, because you might get lucky one time and you win a competition, the question is, how do you build practice out of that?   Michael Hingson ** 29:52 Yeah, and it's a good point, yeah, yeah.   David Mayernik ** 29:55 I mean, developing some kind of continuity is hard. I mean, I. Have a longer, more discontinuous practice after that, but it's that's the hard part.   Michael Hingson ** 30:07 Well, you know, I mentioned challenges before, and we all, we all face challenges and so on. How do we overcome the challenges, our inherited challenges, or the perceived challenges that we have? How do we overcome those and work to move forward, to be our best? Because that's clearly kind of what you're talking about here.   David Mayernik ** 30:26 Yeah, well, the true I mean, so the challenges that we're born with, and I think there are also some challenges that, you know, we impose on ourselves, right? I mean, in this, in the best sense, I mean the ways that we challenge ourselves. And for me, I'm a bit of an idealist, and you know, the world doesn't look kindly on idealist. If you know, from a business, professional point of view, idealism is often, I'm not saying it's frowned upon, but it's hardly encouraged and rewarded and but I think that for me, I've learned over time that it's you really just beating your head against the wall is not the best. A little bit of navigating your way around problems rather than trying to run through them or knock them over is a smarter strategy. And so you have to be a little nimble. You have to be a little creative about how you find work and essentially, how you keep yourself afloat and and if you're if you're open to possibilities, and if you take some risks, you can, you can actually navigate yourself through a series of obstacles and actually have a rich, interesting life, but it may not follow the path that you thought you were starting out on at the beginning. And that's the, I think that's the skill that not everybody has.   Michael Hingson ** 31:43 The other part about that, though, is that all too often, we don't really give thought to what we're going to do, or we we maybe even get nudges about what we ought to do, but we discount them because we think, Oh, that's just not the way to do it. Rather than stepping back and really analyzing what we're seeing, what we're hearing. And I, for 1am, a firm believer in the fact that our inner self, our inner voice, will guide us if we give it the opportunity to do that.   David Mayernik ** 32:15 You know, I absolutely agree. I think a lot of people, you know, I was, I for, I have, for better or worse, I've always had a good sense of what I wanted to do with my life, even if architecture was a you know, conscious way to do something that was not exactly maybe what I dreamed of doing, it was a, you know, as a more rational choice. But, but I've, but I've basically followed my heart, more or less, and I've done the things that I always believed in it was true too. And when I meet people, especially when I have students who don't really know what they love, or, you know, really can't tell you what they really are passionate about, but my sense of it is, this is just my I might be completely wrong, but my sense of it is, they either can't admit it to themselves, or they can't admit it to somebody else that they that, either, in the first case, they're not prepared to listen to themselves and actually really deep, dig deep and think about what really matters to them, or if they do know what that is, they're embarrassed to admit it, or they're embarrassed to tell somebody else. I think most of us have some drive, or some internal, you know, impetus towards something and, and you're right. I mean, learning to listen to that is, is a, I mean, it's rewarding. I mean, essentially, you become yourself. You become more, or the best possible self you can be, I guess.   Michael Hingson ** 33:42 Yeah, I agree. And I guess that that kind of answers the question I was was thinking of, and that is, basically, as you're doing things in life, should you follow your dreams?   David Mayernik ** 33:53 You know, there's a lot, a lot of people are writing these days, if you read, if you're just, you know, on the, on the internet, reading the, you know, advice that you get on, you know, the new services, from the BBC to, you know, any other form of information that's out there, there's a lot of back and forth by between the follow your dreams camp and the don't follow your dreams camp. And the argument of the don't follow your dreams camp seems to be that it's going to be hard and you'll be frustrated, and you know, and that's true, but it doesn't mean you're going to fail, and I don't think anybody should expect life to be easy. So I think if you understand going in, and maybe that's part of my Eastern European heritage that you basically expect life to be hard, not, not that it has to be unpleasant, but you know it's going to be a struggle, but, but if you are true to yourself or follow your dreams, you're probably not going to wake up in the middle of your life with a crisis. You know, because I think a lot of times when you suppress your dreams, they. Stay suppressed forever, and the frustrations come out later, and it's better to just take them on board and try to again, navigate your way through life with those aspirations that you have, that you know are really they're built in like you were saying. They're kind of hardwired to be that person, and it's best to listen to that person.   Michael Hingson ** 35:20 There's nothing wrong with having real convictions, and I think it's important to to step back and make sure that you're really hearing what your convictions are and feeling what your convictions are. But that is what people should do, because otherwise, you're just not going to be happy.   David Mayernik ** 35:36 You're not and you're you're at one level, allowing yourself to manipulate yourself. I mean, essentially, you're, you know, kind of essentially deterring yourself from being who you are. You're probably also susceptible to other people doing that to you, that if you don't have enough sense of yourself, a lot of other people can manipulate you, push you around. And, you know, the thing about having a good sense of yourself is you also know how to stand up for yourself, or at least you know that you're a self that's worth standing up for. And that's you know. That's that, that thing that you know the kids learn in the school yard when you confront the bully, you know you have to, you know, the parents always tell you, you know, stand up to the bully. And at some level, life is going to bully you unless you really are prepared to stand up for something.   Michael Hingson ** 36:25 Yeah, and there's so many examples of that I know as a as a blind person, I've been involved in taking on some pretty major tasks in life. For example, it used to be that anyone with a so called Disability couldn't buy life insurance, and eventually, we took on the insurance industry and won to get the laws passed in every state that now mandate that you can't discriminate against people with disabilities in providing life insurance unless you really have evidence To prove that it's appropriate to do that, and since the laws were passed, there hasn't been any evidence. And the reason is, of course, there never has been evidence, and insurance companies kept claiming they had it, but then when they were challenged to produce it, they couldn't. But the reality is that you can take on major tasks and major challenges and win as long as you really understand that that is what your life is steering you to do,   David Mayernik ** 37:27 yeah, like you said, and also too, having a sense of your your self worth beyond whatever that disability is, that you know what you're capable of, apart from that, you know that's all about what you can't do, but all the things that you can do are the things that should allow you to do anything. And, yeah, I think we're, I think it's a lot of times people will try to define you by what you can't do, you   Michael Hingson ** 37:51 know? And the reality is that those are traditionally misconceptions and inaccurate anyway, as I point out to people, disability does not mean a lack of ability. Although a lot of people say, Well, of course it, it is because it starts with dis. And my response is, what do you then? How do you deal with the words disciple, discern and discrete? For example, you know the fact of the matter is, we all have a disability. Most of you are light dependent. You don't do well with out light in your life, and that's okay. We love you anyway, even though you you have to have light but. But the reality is, in a sense, that's as much a disability is not being light dependent or being light independent. The difference is that light on demand has caused so much focus that it's real easy to get, but it doesn't change the fact that your disability is covered up, but it's still there.   David Mayernik ** 38:47 No, it's true. I mean, I think actually, yeah, knowing. I mean, you're, we're talking about knowing who you are, and, you know, listening to your inner voice and even listening to your aspirations. But also, I mean being pretty honest about where your liabilities are, like what the things are that you struggle with and just recognizing them, and not not to dwell on them, but to just recognize how they may be getting in the way and how you can work around them. You know, one of the things I tell students is that it's really important to be self critical, but, but it's, it's not good to be self deprecating, you know. And I think being self critical if you're going to be a self taught person like I am, in a lot of ways, you you have to be aware of where you're not getting it right. Because I think the problem is sometimes you can satisfy yourself too easily. You're too happy with your own progress. You know, the advantage of having somebody outside teaching you is they're going to tell you when you're doing it wrong, and most people are kind of loath do that for themselves, but, but the other end of that is the people who are so self deprecating, constantly putting themselves down, that they never are able to move beyond it, because they're only aware of what they can't do. And you know, I think balancing self criticism with a sense of your self worth is, you know, one of the great balancing acts of life. You.   Michael Hingson ** 40:00 Well, that's why I've adopted the concept of I'm my own best teacher, because rather than being critical and approaching anything in a negative way, if I realize that I'm going to be my own best teacher, and people will tell me things, I can look at them, and I should look at them, analyze them, step back, internalize them or not, but use that information to grow, then that's what I really should do, and I would much prefer the positive approach of I'm my own best teacher over anything else.   David Mayernik ** 40:31 Yeah, well, I mean, the last kind of teachers, and I, you know, a lot of my students have thought of me as a critical teacher. One of the things I think my students have misunderstood about that is, it's not that I have a low opinion of them. It's actually that I have such a high opinion that I always think they're capable of doing better. Yeah, I think one of the problems in our educational system now is that it's so it's so ratifying and validating. There's so we're so low to criticize and so and the students are so fragile with criticism that they they don't take the criticism well, yeah, we don't give it and, and you without some degree of what you're not quite getting right, you really don't know what you're capable of, right? And, and I think you know. But being but again, being critical is not that's not where you start. I think you start from the aspiration and the hope and the, you know, the actually, the joy of doing something. And then, you know, you take a step back and maybe take a little you know, artists historically had various techniques for judging their own work. Titian used to take one of his paintings and turn it away, turn it facing the wall so that he couldn't see it, and he would come back to it a month later. And, you know, because when he first painted, he thought it was the greatest thing ever painted, he would come back to it a month later and think, you know, I could have done some of those parts better, and you would work on it and fix it. And so, you know, the self criticism comes from this capacity to distance yourself from yourself, look at yourself almost as as hard as it is from the outside, yeah, try to see yourself as other people see you. Because I think in your own mind, you can kind of become completely self referential. And you know, that's that. These are all life skills. You know, I had to say this to somebody recently, but, you know, I think the thing you should get out of your education is learning how to learn and like you're talking about, essentially, how do you approach something new or challenging or different? Is has to do with essentially, how do you how do you know? Do you know how to grow and learn on your own?   Michael Hingson ** 42:44 Yeah, exactly, well, being an architect and so on. How did you end up going off and becoming a professor and and teaching? Yeah, a   David Mayernik ** 42:52 lot of architects do it. I have to say. I mean, there's always a lot of the people who are the kind of heroes when I was a student, were practicing architects who also taught and and they had a kind of, let's say, intellectual approach to what they did. They were conceptual. It wasn't just the mundane aspects of getting a building built, but they had some sense of where they fit, with respect to the culture, with respect to history and issues outside of architecture, the extent to which they were tied into other aspects of culture. And so I always had the idea that, you know, to be a full, you know, a fully, you know, engaged architect. You should have an academic, intellectual side to your life. And teaching would be an opportunity to do that. The only thing is, I didn't feel like I knew enough until I was older, in my 40s, to feel like I actually knew enough about what I was doing to be able to teach somebody else. A lot of architects get into teaching early, I think, before they're actually fully formed to have their own identities. And I think it's been good for me that I waited a while until I had a sense of myself before I felt like I could teach somebody else. And so there was, there was that, I mean, the other side of it, and it's not to say that it was just a day job, but one of the things I decided from the point of your practice is a lot of architects have to do a lot of work that they're not proud of to keep the lights on and keep the business operating. And I have decided for myself, I only really want to do work that I'm proud of, and in order to do that, because clients that you can work for and be you know feel proud of, are rather rare, and so I balanced teaching and practice, because teaching allowed me to ostensibly, theoretically be involved with the life of the mind and only work for people and projects that interested me and that I thought could offer me the chance to do something good and interesting and important. And so one I had the sense that I had something to convey I learned. Enough that I felt like I could teach somebody else. But it was also, for me, an opportunity to have a kind of a balanced life in which practice was compensated. You know that a lot of practice, even interesting practice, has a banal, you know, mundane side. And I like being intellectually stimulated, so I wanted that. Not everybody wants   Michael Hingson ** 45:24 that. Yeah, so you think that the teaching brings you that, or it put you in a position where you needed to deal with that?   David Mayernik ** 45:32 You know, having just retired, I wish there had been more of that. I really had this romantic idea that academics, being involved in academics, would be an opportunity to live in a world of ideas. You know? I mean, because when I was a student, I have to say we, after we came back from Rome, I got at least half of my education for my classmates, because we were deeply engaged. We debated stuff. We, you know, we we challenged each other. We were competitive in a healthy way and and I remember academics my the best part of my academic formation is being immensely intellectually rich. In fact, I really missed it. For about the first five years I was out of college, I really missed the intellectual side of architecture, and I thought going back as a teacher, I would reconnect with that, and I realized not necessarily, there's a lot about academics that's just as mundane and bureaucratic as practice can be so if you really want to have a satisfying intellectual life, unfortunately, you can't look to any institution or other people for it. You got to find it on your own.   46:51 Paperwork, paperwork,   David Mayernik ** 46:55 committee meetings, just stuff. Yeah, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 47:00 yeah. Yeah, which never, which never. Well, I won't say they never help, but there's probably, there's probably some valuable stuff that you can get, even from writing and doing, doing paperwork, because it helps you learn to write. I suppose you can look at it that way.   David Mayernik ** 47:16 No, it's true. I mean, you're, you're definitely a glass half full guy. Michael, I appreciate that's good. No. I mean, I, obviously, I always try to make get the most out of whatever experience I have. But, I mean, in the sense that there wasn't as much intellectual discourse, yeah, you know, as my I would have liked, yeah, and I, you know, in the practice or in the more academic side of architecture. Several years ago, somebody said we were in a post critical phase like that. Ideas weren't really what was driving architecture. It was going to be driven by issues of sustainability, issues of social structure, you know, essentially how people live together, issues that have to do with things that weren't really about, let's call it design in the esthetic sense, and all that stuff is super important. And I'm super interested in, you know, the social impact of my architecture, the sustainable impact of it, but the the kind of intellectual society side of the design part of it, we're in a weird phase where it that's just not in my world, we just it's not talked about a lot. You know,   Michael Hingson ** 48:33 it's not what it what it used to be. Something tells me you may be retired, but you're not going to stop searching for intellectual and various kinds of stimulation to help keep your mind active.   David Mayernik ** 48:47 Oh, gosh, no, no. I mean, effectively. I mean, I just stopped one particular job. I describe it now as quitting with benefits. That's my idea of what I retired from. I retired from a particular position in a particular place, but, but I haven't stopped. I mean, I'm certainly going to keep working. I have a very interesting design project in Switzerland. I've been working on for almost 29 years, and it's got a number of years left in it. I paint, I write, I give lectures, I you know, and you obviously have a rich life. You know, not being at a job. Doesn't mean that the that your engagement with the world and with ideas goes away. I mean, unless you wanted to, my wife's my wife had three great uncles who were great jazz musicians. I mean, some quite well known jazz musicians. And one of them was asked, you know, was he ever going to retire? And he said, retire to what? Because, you know, he was a musician. I mean, you can't stop being a musician, you know, you know, if, some level, if you're really engaged with what you do, you You never stop, really,   Michael Hingson ** 49:51 if you enjoy it, why would you? No, I   David Mayernik ** 49:54 mean, the best thing is that your work is your fun. I mean, you know, talking about, we talked about it. I. You that You know you're kind of defined by your work, but if your work is really what you enjoy, I mean, actually it's fulfilling, rich, enriching, interesting, you don't want to stop doing that. I mean, essentially, you want to do it as long as you possibly can. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 50:13 and it's and it's really important to do that. And I think, in reality, when you retire from a job, you're not really retiring from a job. You're retiring, as you said, from one particular thing. But the job isn't a negative thing at all. It is what you like to do.   David Mayernik ** 50:31 Yeah. I mean, there's, yeah, there's the things that you do that. I mean, I guess the job is the, if you like, the thing that is the, you know, the institution or the entity that you know, pays your bills and that kind of stuff, but the career or the thing that you're invested in that had the way you define yourself is you never stop being that person, that person. And in some ways, you know, what I'm looking forward to is a richer opportunity to pursue my own avenue of inquiry, and, you know, do things on my own terms, without some of the obligations I had   Michael Hingson ** 51:03 as a teacher, and where's your wife and all that.   David Mayernik ** 51:06 So she's with me here in LUCA, and she's she's had a super interesting life, because she she she studied. We, when we were together in New York, she was getting a degree in art history, Medieval and Renaissance studies in art history at NYU, and then she decided she really wanted to be a chef, and she went to cooking school in New York and then worked in a variety of food businesses in New York, and then got into food writing and well, food styling for magazines, making food for photographs, and then eventually writing. And through a strange series of connections and experiences. She got an opportunity to cook at an Art Foundation in the south of France, and I was in New York, and I was freelancing. I was I'd quit a job I'd been at for five years, and I was freelancing around, doing some of my own stuff and working with other architects, and I had work I could take with me. And you know, it was there was there was, we didn't really have the internet so much, but we had FedEx. And I thought I could do drawings in the south of France. I could do them in Brooklyn. So, so I went to the south of France, and it just happens to be that my current client from Switzerland was there at that place at that time, scouting it out for some other purpose. And she said, I hear you're architect. I said, Yeah. And I said, Well, you know, she said, I like, you know, classical architecture, and I like, you know, traditional villages, and we have a campus, and we need a master plan architect. And I was doing a master plan back in Delaware at that time, and my wife's you know, career trajectory actually enabled me to meet a client who's basically given me an opportunity to build, you know, really interesting stuff, both in Switzerland and in England for the last, you know, again, almost 29 years. And so my wife's been a partner in this, and she's been, you know, because she's pursued her own parallel interest. But, but our interests overlap enough and we share enough that we our interests are kind of mutually reinforcing. It's, it's been like an ongoing conversation between us, which has been alive and rich and wonderful.   Michael Hingson ** 53:08 You know, with everything going on in architecture and in the world in general, we see more and more technology in various arenas and so on. How do you think that the whole concept of CAD has made a difference, or in any way affected architecture. And where do you think CAD systems really fit into all of that?   David Mayernik ** 53:33 Well, so I mean this, you know, CAD came along. I mean, it already was, even when I was early in my apprenticeship, yeah, I was in Chicago, and there was a big for som in Chicago, had one of the first, you know, big computers that was doing some drawing work for them. And one of my, a friend of mine, you know, went to spend some time and figure out what they were capable of. And, but, you know, never really came into my world until kind of the late night, mid, mid to late 90s and, and, and I kind of resisted it, because I, the reason I got into architecture is because I like to draw by hand, and CAD just seemed to be, you know, the last thing I'd want to do. But at the same time, you, some of you, can't avoid it. I mean, it has sort of taken over the profession that, essentially, you either have people doing it for you, or you have to do it yourself, and and so the interesting thing is, I guess that I, at some point with Switzerland, I had to, basically, I had people helping me and doing drawing for me, but I eventually taught myself. And I actually, I jumped over CAD and I went to a 3d software called ArchiCAD, which is a parametric design thing where you're essentially building a 3d model. Because I thought, Look, if I'm going to do drawing on the computer, I want the computer to do something more than just make lines, because I can make lines on my own. But so the computer now was able to help me build a 3d model understand buildings in space and construction. And so I've taught myself to be reasonably, you know, dangerous with ArchiCAD and but the. Same time, the creative side of it, I still, I still think, and a lot of people think, is still tied to the intuitive hand drawing aspect and and so a lot of schools that gave up on hand drawing have brought it back, at least in the early years of formation of architects only for the the conceptual side of architecture, the the part where you are doodling out your first ideas, because CAD drawing is essentially mechanical and methodical and sort of not really intuitive, whereas the intuitive marking of paper With a pencil is much more directly connected to the mind's capacity to kind of speculate and imagine and daydream a little bit, or wander a little bit your mind wanders, and it actually is time when some things can kind of emerge on the page that you didn't even intend. And so, you know, the other thing about the computer is now on my iPad, I can actually do hand drawing on my iPad, and that's allowed me to travel with it, show it to clients. And so I still obviously do a lot of drawing on paper. I paint by hand, obviously with real paints and real materials. But I also have found also I can do free hand drawing on my iPad. I think the real challenge now is artificial intelligence, which is not really about drawing, it's about somebody else or the machine doing the creative side of it. And that's the big existential crisis that I think the profession is facing right now.   Michael Hingson ** 56:36 Yeah, I think I agree with that. I've always understood that you could do free hand drawing with with CAD systems. And I know that when I couldn't find a job in the mid 1980s I formed a company, and we sold PC based CAD systems to architects and engineers. And you know, a number of them said, well, but when we do designs, we charge by the time that we put into drawing, and we can't do that with a CAD system, because it'll do it in a fraction of the time. And my response always was, you're looking at it all wrong. You don't change how much you charge a customer, but now you're not charging for your time, you're charging for your expertise, and you do the same thing. The architects who got that were pretty successful using CAD systems, and felt that it wasn't really stifling their creativity to use a CAD system to enhance and speed up what they did, because it also allowed them to find more jobs more quickly.   David Mayernik ** 57:35 Yeah, one of the things it did was actually allow smaller firms to compete with bigger firms, because you just didn't need as many bodies to produce a set of drawings to get a project built or to make a presentation. So I mean, it has at one level, and I think it still is a kind of a leveler of, in a way, the scale side of architecture, that a lot of small creative firms can actually compete for big projects and do them successfully. There's also, it's also facilitated collaboration, because of the ability to exchange files and have people in different offices, even around the world, working on the same drawing. So, you know, I'm working in Switzerland. You know, one of the reasons to be on CAD is that I'm, you know, sharing drawings with local architects there engineers, and that you know that that collaborative sharing process is definitely facilitated by the computer.   Michael Hingson ** 58:27 Yeah, information exchange is always valuable, especially if you have a number of people who are committed to the same thing. It really helps. Collaboration is always a good thing,   David Mayernik ** 58:39 yeah? I mean, I think a lot of, I mean, there's always the challenge between the ego side of architecture, you know, creative genius, genius, the Howard Roark Fountainhead, you know, romantic idea. And the reality is that it takes a lot of people to get a building built, and one person really can't do it by themselves. And So collaboration is kind of built into it at the same time, you know, for any kind of coherence, or some any kind of, let's say, anything, that brings a kind of an artistic integrity to a work of architecture, mostly, that's got to come from one person, or at least people with enough shared vision that that there's a kind of coherence to it, you know. And so there still is space for the individual creative person. It's just that it's inevitably a collaborative process to get, you know, it's the it's the 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Side architecture is very much that there's a lot of heavy lifting that goes into getting a set of drawings done to get

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