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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. 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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

- La paura, una condizione naturale. È istinto di sopravvivenza. Anche la Bibbia ne parla e ci chiede di non avere paura della vita, non lasciare vincere la paura. Con la rubrica Vie di snodo, curata da Maria Teresa Milano, guardiamo alle vicende di tre personaggi biblici - Giona, Mosè, Giacobbe - sotto la lente del tema paura. Ciascuno di loro la affronta, o la rimuove, in modo diverso. Pensiamo in particolare a Giacobbe, che ha paura di incontrare il fratello Esaù, con cui è in conflitto … invoca Dio e quella notte combatte fino all'alba con uno sconosciuto…-La rubrica musicale Tra cielo e terra – storie in musica, curata in tandem da Carlo Lella e Marta D'Auria, presenta questa mattina l'inno “Follow the drinking gourd”. Carlo Lella è ministro della musica e responsabile del Ministero musicale dell'Unione cristiana evangelica Battista d'Italia (Ucebi); Marta D'Auria, redattrice di Riforma (giornale delle chiese battiste metodiste e valdesi in Italia), è vicepresidente dell'Unione cristiana evangelica Battista d'Italia. -Nel 2025 si ricordano i 50 anni dal riconoscimento formale delle Chiese riformate ticinesi come ente di diritto pubblico. In questa occasione – nel corso di tutte le domeniche estive - proponiamo una carrellata di tutte le comunità presenti in Ticino, con la loro storia e caratteristiche peculiari. Oggi raccontiamo dell'area di Bellinzona, Biasca e San Nazzaro, insieme al pastore Stefano D'Archino, che è anche il presidente della Cert, la Chiesa evangelica riformata nel Ticino.

®La galleria ferroviaria di Alptransit ha rivoluzionato la mobilità fra il Canton Ticino e il resto della Svizzera, creando nuove forme di pendolarismo. Negli ultimi anni decine e decine di Ticinesi scelgono di prendere il treno ogni mattina per andare a lavorare… ad Altdorf, in Canton Uri.Non Zurigo. Non Lucerna. Altdorf: la prima fermata dopo il Gottardo, patria di Guglielmo Tell, una sparuta cittadina in mezzo alle Alpi di soli 10'000 abitanti. Un quarto della popolazione di Bellinzona, un sesto di quella di Lugano. Eppure, grazie ad Alptransit e al fabbisogno di professionisti specializzati, Altdorf è diventata per molti la nuova El Dorado, una terra di opportunità lavorative raggiungibile dal Ticino in soli 30-50 minuti. El Doraltdorf è un reportage su rotaia – non un on the road, bensì un on the rail! – per conoscere le storie di chi ad Altdorf ha trovato salari più alti, una migliore cultura del lavoro e, sì, anche la felicità.Con Francesco (da Massagno) e Jacopo (da Bellinzona), docenti di matematica al Liceo di Altdorf; Malte (da Giubiasco), specialista in trasporti per la Emil Gisler di Seedorf; Kathrin (da Bosco Luganese) e Pamela (da Bellinzona) tecniche di radiologia al Kantonsspital Uri; Roberto (da Ponte Tresa), parrucchiere frontaliere nel centro storico di Altdorf; Laura (da Massagno), bioingegnera e ricercatrice presso la Dätwyler, una delle maggiori aziende dell'industria urana. Con la partecipazione del sindaco di Altdorf Sebastian Züst. Prima emissione 3 marzo 2025

- La storia di Tamar: una vicenda biblica, raccontata nel Primo testamento, dai tratti forti e molto caratteristici. “Aprire gli occhi” è la frase chiave di questo episodio della rubrica “Vie di snodo”, curata da Maria Teresa Milano, biblista, traduttrice, musicista. Nella storia di Tamar, contenuta nel libro della Genesi al capitolo 38, la donna, accusata di essersi prostituita, viene condannata a morte dal suocero Giuda ma, una volta svelato il segreto che sta sotto le sue azioni, grazie alla sua “astuzia”, che in realtà è la sua capacità di prevedere e costruire, il suocero stesso apre gli occhi e ammette la sua colpa e dice: “lei è più giusta di me”.- La rubrica musicale “Tra cielo e terra – storie in musica”, curata in tandem da Carlo Lella e Marta D'Auria, presenta questa mattina l'inno “Amo l'Eterno”, ispirato al Salmo 116. Si tratta di un canto di resistenza spirituale, in un tempo di persecuzioni religiose. Il maestro Carlo Lella è ministro della musica e responsabile del Ministero musicale dell'Unione cristiana evangelica Battista d'Italia (Ucebi); Marta D'Auria, redattrice di “Riforma” (giornale delle chiese battiste metodiste e valdesi in Italia), è vicepresidente dell'Unione cristiana evangelica Battista d'Italia. - Nel 2025 si ricordano i 50 anni dal riconoscimento formale delle Chiese riformate ticinesi come ente di diritto pubblico. In questa occasione – nel corso di tutte le domeniche estive - proponiamo una carrellata di tutte le comunità presenti in Ticino, con la loro storia e caratteristiche peculiari. Oggi raccontiamo della chiesa di Vacallo, nel Mendrisiotto, e lo facciamo insieme alla sua pastora, Anne Zell.

- La storia di Tamar: una vicenda biblica, raccontata nel Primo testamento, dai tratti forti e molto caratteristici. “Aprire gli occhi” è la frase chiave di questo episodio della rubrica “Vie di snodo”, curata da Maria Teresa Milano, biblista, traduttrice, musicista. Nella storia di Tamar, contenuta nel libro della Genesi al capitolo 38, la donna, accusata di essersi prostituita, viene condannata a morte dal suocero Giuda ma, una volta svelato il segreto che sta sotto le sue azioni, grazie alla sua “astuzia”, che in realtà è la sua capacità di prevedere e costruire, il suocero stesso apre gli occhi e ammette la sua colpa e dice: “lei è più giusta di me”.- La rubrica musicale “Tra cielo e terra – storie in musica”, curata in tandem da Carlo Lella e Marta D'Auria, presenta questa mattina l'inno “Amo l'Eterno”, ispirato al Salmo 116. Si tratta di un canto di resistenza spirituale, in un tempo di persecuzioni religiose. Il maestro Carlo Lella è ministro della musica e responsabile del Ministero musicale dell'Unione cristiana evangelica Battista d'Italia (Ucebi); Marta D'Auria, redattrice di “Riforma” (giornale delle chiese battiste metodiste e valdesi in Italia), è vicepresidente dell'Unione cristiana evangelica Battista d'Italia. - Nel 2025 si ricordano i 50 anni dal riconoscimento formale delle Chiese riformate ticinesi come ente di diritto pubblico. In questa occasione – nel corso di tutte le domeniche estive - proponiamo una carrellata di tutte le comunità presenti in Ticino, con la loro storia e caratteristiche peculiari. Oggi raccontiamo della chiesa di Vacallo, nel Mendrisiotto, e lo facciamo insieme alla sua pastora, Anne Zell.

I numeri parlano chiaro e non lasciano grandi spazi d'interpretazione: in Ticino le nascite continuano a diminuire. Lo ha confermato lo scorso 10 luglio l'Ufficio di statistica cantonale con la pubblicazione dei dati sul “Movimento naturale della popolazione, Ticino, 2024” . Nello scorso anno il numero di nati vivi in Ticino è stato il più basso degli ultimi 40 anni: 2'319 bambine e bambini, in diminuzione di 71 nascite rispetto a quanto osservato nel 2023 (2'390 nascite). Per trovare un valore più basso bisogna risalire al 1985, quando vi erano state 2'311 nascite, ma allora il Ticino contava un minor numero di abitanti. Il tasso di natalità, ossia il rapporto fra le nascite e la popolazione nella quale avvengono, illustra chiaramente questa differenza: nel 1985 vi erano 8,4 nascite ogni mille abitanti, nel 2024 questo valore è sceso a 6,5, il che vuol dire che a parità di nascite in termini assoluti, proporzionalmente nascono molti meno bambini. Il calo delle nascite ha caratterizzato l'ultimo decennio. Confrontando i dati del 2015 con quelli del 2024 constatiamo una diminuzione praticamente lineare e con una differenza di ben 638 nascite e soltanto in due occasioni, a cavallo del 2020, si è osservato un leggero aumento dei casi. Basse e in continua diminuzione le nascite, dunque, ed elevati i decessi anche per l'aumento dell'invecchiamento della popolazione: è questa la fotografia del 2024 che, in sintesi, ci indica che si fanno dei figli sempre più tardi -le cause e i fattori sono diversi, in primis i salari troppo bassi- ma se ne fanno sempre meno. Se le nascite sono il motore della crescita di una popolazione, il confronto con la crescente curva dei decessi non è fonte di ottimismo, anzi ci si deve inquietare e interrogarsi anche perché se il problema del saldo naturale negativo dei cittadini svizzeri -fino al Duemila- era stato in parte compensato e neutralizzato dal ruolo fondamentale dei residenti stranieri, negli ultimi anni l'apporto di coloro che sono arrivati nel nostro Paese è però diminuito, fino ad azzerarsi di recente. Una combinazione che porta il saldo naturale al secondo valore più basso misurato (-1'117 persone), dopo quello del 2020. La statistica sul movimento naturale non si riferisce soltanto alle nascite e ai decessi registrati nel corso dell'anno (2'319 rispettivamente 3'436 casi), ma anche ai matrimoni e ai divorzi (1'140 rispettivamente 657 casi), ai nati morti (11 casi), ai riconoscimenti di paternità (922 casi), alle adozioni (13 casi) e ai cambiamenti di sesso (18 casi). Questi dati permettono inoltre di aggiornare regolarmente indicatori quali l'età media al primo matrimonio o l'età alla nascita del primo figlio. Il calo demografico, un fenomeno che preoccupa tutte le società e le nazioni occidentali, è dunque il tema odierno sul quale desideriamo riflettere con due ospiti. Dobbiamo rassegnarci oppure vi sono delle soluzioni e dei rimedi per arginare la progressiva e costante diminuzione delle nascite in una società in cui le incertezze per i giovani sono molte, gli stipendi spesso troppo bassi per mantenere una famiglia e il costo della vita che incide sempre più pesantemente sui bilanci con spese mensili in costante incremento?Ne parliamo con Barbara Manzoni, giornalista del settimanale Azione e Gian Carlo Blangiardo, ricercatore e già professore ordinario di Demografia presso la Facoltà di Statistica dell' Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca e presidente dell'ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale italiano di Statistica) dal 4 febbraio 2019 al 22 marzo 2023.

Nell'estate ticinese la presenza dei lupi, in aumento nelle nostre valli, è decisamente ritornata al centro del dibattito politico: il tema suscita interesse e discussioni; gli allevatori sono sempre più preoccupati per le frequenti predazioni; e l'opinione pubblica è divisa fra chi vorrebbe una gestione decisamente più decisa e incisiva e chi, invece, sostiene che con le attuali leggi federali le possibilità d'intervento per i singoli Cantoni sono molto ridotte e limitate. L'apparato legislativo a disposizione non concederebbe insomma dei margini di manovra per cambiare una situazione che per chi è confrontato con il problema -soprattutto gli agricoltori e i contadini- è diventata insostenibile tanto che alcuni hanno dovuto rinunciare alle loro attività professionali con capre e pecore e chiudere le loro aziende. La vera emergenza del Ticino è il lupo? Cosa si dovrebbe e potrebbe fare? Si dovrebbe prendere esempio da quanto è stato fatto in Vallese e nei Grigioni? Vengono protetti in modo adeguato gli animali da reddito con le misure di protezione riconosciute dall'Ufficio federale dell'ambiente che sono l'impiego di cani da protezione delle greggi e le recinzioni elettrificate? Stando ai dati pubblicati lo scorso 15 luglio, in Ticino i capi sicuramente predati dal lupo, sono passati dai 38 del 2024 ai 72 del 2025 (12 protetti, 33 non protetti e 27 non proteggibili) a cui ne vanno con molta probabilità aggiunti almeno altri 50 appena saranno conclusi gli accertamenti sui 16 attacchi ancora in fase di analisi. Le predazioni, quindi gli attacchi sono passati dai 19 del 2024 ai 23 del 2025 ai quali vanno aggiunti 16 episodi ancora in fase di analisi per un totale di 39. È stata accertata nel territorio la presenza di cinque branchi di lupi. Sono denominati: Onsernone, Val Colla, Carvina, Lepontino e Gridone, quest'ultimo identificato all'inizio del 2025. In aggiunta sono state registrate sei coppie stabili, tre in più rispetto al 2024. Ne parliamo con Tiziano Putelli, capo dell'Ufficio della caccia e della pesca del Dipartimento del territorio; Sandro Rusconi, vice-presidente dell' Associazione Protezione del Territorio dai Grandi Predatori (APTdaiGP), sezione Ticino e Silvia Gandolla, biologa faunista che si occupa di predatori per WWF e Pro Natura

Nell'estate ticinese la presenza dei lupi, in aumento nelle nostre valli, è decisamente ritornata al centro del dibattito politico: il tema suscita interesse e discussioni; gli allevatori sono sempre più preoccupati per le frequenti predazioni; e l'opinione pubblica è divisa fra chi vorrebbe una gestione decisamente più decisa e incisiva e chi, invece, sostiene che con le attuali leggi federali le possibilità d'intervento per i singoli Cantoni sono molto ridotte e limitate. L'apparato legislativo a disposizione non concederebbe insomma dei margini di manovra per cambiare una situazione che per chi è confrontato con il problema -soprattutto gli agricoltori e i contadini- è diventata insostenibile tanto che alcuni hanno dovuto rinunciare alle loro attività professionali con capre e pecore e chiudere le loro aziende. La vera emergenza del Ticino è il lupo? Cosa si dovrebbe e potrebbe fare? Si dovrebbe prendere esempio da quanto è stato fatto in Vallese e nei Grigioni? Vengono protetti in modo adeguato gli animali da reddito con le misure di protezione riconosciute dall'Ufficio federale dell'ambiente che sono l'impiego di cani da protezione delle greggi e le recinzioni elettrificate? Stando ai dati pubblicati lo scorso 15 luglio, in Ticino i capi sicuramente predati dal lupo, sono passati dai 38 del 2024 ai 72 del 2025 (12 protetti, 33 non protetti e 27 non proteggibili) a cui ne vanno con molta probabilità aggiunti almeno altri 50 appena saranno conclusi gli accertamenti sui 16 attacchi ancora in fase di analisi. Le predazioni, quindi gli attacchi sono passati dai 19 del 2024 ai 23 del 2025 ai quali vanno aggiunti 16 episodi ancora in fase di analisi per un totale di 39. È stata accertata nel territorio la presenza di cinque branchi di lupi. Sono denominati: Onsernone, Val Colla, Carvina, Lepontino e Gridone, quest'ultimo identificato all'inizio del 2025. In aggiunta sono state registrate sei coppie stabili, tre in più rispetto al 2024. Ne parliamo con Tiziano Putelli, capo dell'Ufficio della caccia e della pesca del Dipartimento del territorio; Sandro Rusconi, vice-presidente dell' Associazione Protezione del Territorio dai Grandi Predatori (APTdaiGP), sezione Ticino e Silvia Gandolla, biologa faunista che si occupa di predatori per WWF e Pro Natura

Philipp Fankhauser è rinato. La storia recente del maestro del blues svizzero ha dell'incredibile. Dopo la diagnosi, nel 2023, di una mielofibrosi potenzialmente letale, l'anno successivo Fankhauser si è sottoposto a un trapianto di cellule staminali e dopo soli 12 mesi è arrivato il suo diciottesimo album.undefined“Ain't that something”, uscito con Funk House Blues Productions, è a tutti gli effetti l'album di un artista grato alla vita e alla medicina, un musicista che ha un nuovo bagaglio genetico, un nuovo sangue e una nuova data di nascita. Il nuovo disco di Philipp contiene un bouquet stilistico variato di canzoni (e di ospiti) piene d'energia “à la Fankhauser”, come se quei due anni di grave malattia e di esistenza sospesa non fossero mai esisti.undefinedÈ partita da lì, ovviamente, la chiacchierata con Philipp Fankhauser, venuto a trovarci nel suo amato Ticino, dove ha vissuto da ragazzo.undefined

Philipp Fankhauser è rinato. La storia recente del maestro del blues svizzero ha dell'incredibile. Dopo la diagnosi, nel 2023, di una mielofibrosi potenzialmente letale, l'anno successivo Fankhauser si è sottoposto a un trapianto di cellule staminali e dopo soli 12 mesi è arrivato il suo diciottesimo album.undefined“Ain't that something”, uscito con Funk House Blues Productions, è a tutti gli effetti l'album di un artista grato alla vita e alla medicina, un musicista che ha un nuovo bagaglio genetico, un nuovo sangue e una nuova data di nascita. Il nuovo disco di Philipp contiene un bouquet stilistico variato di canzoni (e di ospiti) piene d'energia “à la Fankhauser”, come se quei due anni di grave malattia e di esistenza sospesa non fossero mai esisti.undefinedÈ partita da lì, ovviamente, la chiacchierata con Philipp Fankhauser, venuto a trovarci nel suo amato Ticino, dove ha vissuto da ragazzo.undefined

®Questo documentario interroga la questione della migrazione attraverso la lente della salute mentale, restituendo un racconto polifonico fatto di voci professionali e testimonianze dirette.Con l'etnologopedista Francine Rosenbaum, esploriamo del linguaggio della lingua materna, mentre la psicoterapeuta Elia Carenzio Sala – laureata in etnopsichiatria che anche lei ha lavorato per oltre trent'anni nelle strutture pubbliche del Canton Ticino – riflette sulle sfide dell'accoglienza terapeutica in contesti multiculturali.Ad affiancarle, le parole di don Giusto, parroco di Rebbio a Como che collabora con le associazioni del Ticino che da assistenza a persone migranti tutti i giorni. Un viaggio tra psiche e confini, per ascoltare ciò che spesso rimane inascoltato.Prima emissione: 16 maggio 2025

Sta facendo discutere in Ticino, soprattutto per la tempistica che ha già innescato degli atti parlamentari, la decisione di ieri del Consiglio di Stato che ha annunciato che è stata apportata una modifica al programma promozionale in ambito energetico, che prevede la cessazione, a partire dal primo luglio, degli incentivi per nuovi edifici certificati Minergie-A o Minergie-P. Per garantire una continuità nelle misure promozionali in ambito energetico, il Governo ha riavviato a inizio anno il proprio programma promozionale in ambito energetico. Quest'ultimo si fonda su crediti cantonali approvati dal Parlamento ticinese, per un importo totale di 127 milioni di franchi, e su importanti entrate derivanti dal Programma Edifici, che a sua volta beneficia di parte dei proventi derivanti dalla tassa sul CO2. Secondo il comunicato del Governo, considerata la delicata situazione economica e alla luce delle incertezze finanziarie delineatesi sia a livello federale sia cantonale, si è proceduto rivedendo l'assegnazione e la destinazione degli incentivi in ambito energetico, al fine di evitare un prematuro esaurimento dei fondi disponibili. Tenuto conto che, dal 2024, i nuovi edifici devono già rispettare delle prescrizioni energetiche più severe, il Consiglio di Stato ha deciso di concentrare gli incentivi disponibili sul risanamento degli edifici esistenti e sulla promozione delle fonti rinnovabili. Inoltre, va ricordato, che dal 2024 in Ticino sono cambiate anche alcune leggi energetiche tanto che gli edifici odierni sono già molto validi e si avvicinano agli attuali standard Minergie. Grazie alle modifiche della Legge cantonale sull'energia (LEn) e del relativo Regolamento sull'utilizzazione dell'energia (RUEn) in vigore dal 2024, i nuovi edifici sottostanno in effetti a prescrizioni energetiche più restrittive, a favore di una maggiore efficienza energetica rispetto al passato, nell'ottica di perseguire il raggiungimento degli obiettivi fissati dalle politiche energetiche e climatiche. Si è perciò deciso di indirizzare gli investimenti in ambito energetico prioritariamente al sostegno del risanamento degli edifici esistenti e della conversione di impianti di riscaldamento elettrici diretti o alimentati con combustibili fossili, con energie rinnovabili, eliminando gli incentivi a favore dei nuovi edifici realizzati con altissimi standard energetici. Sostituire tutti gli impianti “vecchi” a olio e a gas rimane una delle priorità dell'ente pubblico, calcolando che secondo una stima in Ticino, a grandi linee, vi sono ancora 40 mila impianti sull'intero territorio.Ne parliamo con Michele Fasciana, capo dell'Ufficio del clima e della decarbonizzazione del Dipartimento del territorio

Secondo uno studio recente, la Svizzera spodesta Parigi e la Francia dal primo posto nella classifica dei luoghi più romantici al mondo.E il Ticino? Buon Ascolto.

Il Mendrisiotto e tre parole per descriverlo: il verde, la bellezza e la luce. Sono gli spunti di partenza dell'ultimo libro In cerca della luce, Storie di artisti venuti in Ticino, Edizioni Casagrande, freschissimo di stampa, del poeta e scrittore Aberto Nessi che, alla vigilia del suo 85esimo compleanno, ci regala una raccolta di ritratti di artisti arrivati in Ticino in cerca di luce e di un'arte nuova. Nove racconti che possono essere letti come nove tentativi di avvicinamento al mistero della creazione. Nessi ha sempre amato la pittura in particolare quella legata ai suoi luoghi di vita. E questo libro nasce proprio da questo legame biografico e affettivo. In questa cornice si trovano soprattutto dei personaggi umili, defilati o ai margini che l'autore scruta e descrive sempre da una posizione discosta. L'empatia verso questi artisti spesso sofferenti e con vite tormentate evidenziano quella sensibilità e quell'attenzione di Nessi per le sfumature d'ombra che fanno, nella sua prosa e nelle sue poesie, da contraltare alle luci: lo scrittore si immedesima nei personaggi che continuano a vivere nelle loro opere e gli succede spesso di partire con la mente insieme a loro. All'inizio del Novecento, un corteo di artisti arriva nel Canton Ticino. La loro venuta non è concertata: si direbbero attratti da una forza misteriosa che c'entra forse con i paesaggi e la luce. Giovani, anticonformisti, appassionati, scelgono di vivere – spesso poveramente – in piccoli paesi come Castel San Pietro, Ligornetto, Coldrerio, Montagnola, Ascona. Presto questi luoghi si ritagliano uno spazio nelle loro opere, diventando parte integrante della ricerca che li accomuna: quella di un'arte nuova. Nei racconti che compongono In cerca della luce, Alberto Nessi narra queste vite d'artisti. Ci sono le gesta dei sodali Albert Müller, Hermann Scherer e Paul Camenisch, che in Ticino fondano il Gruppo Rot-Blau; c'è l'ombroso «Johannes» Robert Schürch, che vive con la madre in una baracca isolata nei boschi; c'è l'esule russa Marianne Werefkin, con la sua mistica arte del colore; c'è «l'uomo dagli occhiali neri», Guido Gonzato; c'è Jean Corty, che nonostante gli internamenti in manicomio non smette di dipingere; c'è Hermann Hesse, dedito tanto alla scrittura quanto alla pittura ad acquarello; e ci sono tanti altri uomini e donne venuti a Sud in cerca della luce del Ticino. Dietro le loro storie pulsa una domanda: cosa significa essere artisti? E in effetti questi racconti possono essere letti anche così: come nove tentativi di avvicinarsi al mistero della creazione e alla faccia luminosa del mondo. Sono ospiti: Alberto Nessi, scrittore e poeta e Barbara Paltenghi Malacrida, direttrice del Museo d'Arte di Mendrisio.

In questo episodio speciale intervistiamo Emilio Scossa-Baggi, per ben 37 anni al servizio della polizia scientifica ticinese, di cui 33 come capo. È noto come "l'uomo dei 100 omicidi" in Ticino, avendo seguito o vissuto indirettamente un centinaio di casi. La sua carriera è iniziata nel 1980 presso quello che allora si chiamava "Servizio Identificazioni e Ricerche" (SIR) e dal 1984 ha ricoperto il ruolo di responsabile, stabilendo un record svizzero per la durata in tale posizione. Inizialmente rifiutato due volte per la carriera da poliziotto, la scientifica fu per lui una sorta di "ripiego" che si è poi trasformato in una passione e una carriera ricca di evoluzioni. Vieni a vederci dal vivo: nonapritequellapodcast.com/live Iscriviti al Patreon per ascoltare UN EPISODIO IN PIÙ a settimana: patreon.com/NAQP Seguici su Instagram per video esclusivi e molto altro: @nonapritequellapodcast Compra il nostro merch: merch.nonapritequellapodcast.com Per sponsor, collaborazioni o semplici mail: nonapritequellapodcast@gmail.com Segui Matteo su Instagram: @matteo.lenardon Segui Pedar su Instagram: @iosonopedar Segui J-Ax su Instagram: @j.axofficial Grazie ai nostri flex producer: Alessandro Micheli, Andrea Salvadori, Baiocchi In Brodo, Dario D'amico, Dario Pultrone, Dr. Amido Di Patata, Eleonora, Floriano Del Zio, Fran, Kinky Jowo, La Ele, Marco Bigmac, Mauro Zaccone, Michele Battistella, Mimmo, Nick Franco, Nira, Patatti, Quell Uomo, Ric, Rocco Ferretti, Salvo Greg, Shedly The Mad Hatter, Svizzerotto, Syd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Il 20 giugno del 1941 giunse a Buenos Aires una nave mercantile chiamata Nan-a-Maru. L'imbarcazione proveniente dal Giappone doveva consegnare del materiale inviato dall'ambasciata tedesca di Tokyo alla omologa di Buenos Aires. Il carico venne requisito dalle autorità argentine e scomparve nel nulla. Ottantaquattro anni è tornato alla luce durante dei lavori di ristrutturazione all'interno della sede della Corte Suprema di Giustizia dello stato sudamericano. Il materiale è stato rinvenuto all'interno di casse di legno di uno champagne argentino dell'epoca soprannominato el vino del inmigrante. Una storia incredibile che evidenzia un ritrovamento storico di portata mondiale, capace di ridefinire i rapporti tra la dittatura nazista di Hitler e l'Argentina di quegli anni. Lo raccontano Eliahu Hamra, Rabbino Capo dell'AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina), il direttore del Museo dell'Olocausto Jonathan Karszenbaum, la storica e ricercatrice Marcia Ras, il giornalista investigativo e redattore giudiziario del quotidiano Clarìn Daniel Santoro. La melodia finale è tratta da Alfonsina y el Mar, canzone della cantautrice argentina Mercedes Sosa dedicata ad Alfonsina Storni Martignoni, poetessa, attrice e giornalista nata nel 1892 a Sala Capriasca in Ticino e scomparsa a Buenos Aires nel 1938.

Con Alessandra Brambilla, storica dell'arte e collaboratrice scientifica della Pinacoteca Giovanni Zuest di Rancate, andiamo alla riscoperta dell'artista Angelo Giorgetti (1899-1960) di cui potete ammirare le sue opere nella mostra (“Dalla Parigi degli “Anni folli” al Ticino del Dopoguerra”) in corso in questi mesi proprio nelle sale del museo. Angelo Giorgetti (1899-1960), artista raffinato e affascinante testimone del proprio tempo, è nato a Milano da famiglia ticinese ed è vissuto fra Parigi, Lugano e Milano, attraversando le correnti artistiche del Novecento con uno stile figurativo che spazia dal ritratto al paesaggio, dalla scultura all'arte sacra. 

Il collega Andrea Gloor ci presenta il suo podcast originale Vivi o Morti, un racconto intenso e personale dedicato alle persone scomparse in Ticino.Il podcast esplora tre storie vere e offre una riflessione su un fenomeno spesso dimenticato, ma di grande impatto sociale.undefined

Domenica scorsa a Barcellona i residenti che hanno protestato con pistole ad acqua contro il sovraffollamento turistico non erano in molti: circa 600. Ma il malcontento per un turismo considerato esageratamente invadente nella capitale catalana e in altre città spagnole ed europee dura da tempo. E si riproporrà certamente in futuro. Il fenomeno ha un nome: “overtourism”, sembra essersi accentuato dopo la pandemia e pone il problema della sostenibilità di un'economia che un numero crescente di residenti percepisce oramai più come un danno che come una risorsa. Perché? Cosa non funziona nel turismo di oggi? Come migliorare la convivenza tra industria turistica e popolazione locale nelle località più gettonate?Ne discutiamo con: Mariangela Paone, giornalista, Madrid Claudio Visentin, docente di storia culturale del turismo all'Università della Svizzera italiana Angelo Trotta, direttore Ticino turismo Alessandro Rapinese, sindaco di Como

Nel mondo del lavoro svizzero, che cosa deve contare di più: un contratto collettivo (CCL) a livello nazionale con i suoi vincoli anche salariali oppure gli stipendi minimi votati dal popolo a livello cantonale?In discussione a Berna torna la proposta del consigliere agli Stati obwaldese Erich Ettlin del Centro: secondo lui i CCL nazionali devono prevalere in ogni caso, anche quando prevedono stipendi inferiori ai salari minimi in vigore in un determinato cantone.In gioco c'è il rispetto della volontà popolare ma anche la salvaguardia del partenariato sociale, con le sue spesso dure trattative che coinvolgono padronato e rappresentanti dei lavoratori. Materia per un faccia a faccia tra i nostri due ospiti, consiglieri nazionali ticinesi:·      GRETA GYSIN – I Verdi e presidente del sindacato Transfair·      ALEX FARINELLI – PLR e vicedirettore della Società svizzera impresari costruttori, sezione Ticino

La storia di oggi inizia con un ballo tra i tavoli di un ristorante. Passa per una cabina d'aereo, attraversa l'Asia, e ritorna in Ticino con una forma tutta nuova. È una storia di disciplina, di scelte controcorrente, di visione. A raccontarcela è Cédric Faucherre, classe 1991, oggi vicedirettore del Castello del Sole di Ascona. Da un apprendistato come cameriere, ai voli con la Swiss, a Hong Kong, fino all'hôtellerie di eccellenza.Un percorso che ci ricorda che avere una visione non significa avere fretta, anzi. Significa sapere dove si vuole arrivare, un passo alla volta.

Recentissimamente in Ticino, protagonista di un concerto memorabile nella cattedrale luganese , la Cappella Pratensis.Cappella Pratensis (nella foto) ci restituisce il clima di una Confraternita rinascimentale, un Banchetto e tanta musica. È l'ultima fatica discografica del, celebre ensemble vocale dei Paesi Bassi. Pubblicato per l'etichetta Challengerecords, il cd offre una plausibile ricostruzione della Festa del Cigno ovvero il banchetto che la Confraternita di Nostra Signora della città di Hertogenbosch nella regione del Brabante organizzava per la festa dei Santi Innocenti. Il Cigno è emblema di purezza e nel Medioevo, il nome, lo si voleva derivato dal latino canere ovvero cantare, in relazione al canto dell'animale dal lungo e flessibile collo. Brani sacri e profani si alternano in un contesto che in quel momento storico non aveva confini e testimoniato dai molti manoscritti di proprietà della Confraternita, gli stessi manoscritti da cui Cappella Pratensis ha attinto per realizzare la registrazione. Di questo e di altro Giovanni Conti ne parla con una delle storiche voci dell'ensemble, Peter De Laurentiis.

«Fondare biblioteche è come costruire ancora granai pubblici, ammassare riserve contro l'inverno dello spirito che da molti indizi, mio malgrado, vedo venire»: così scriveva la scrittrice Marguerite Yourcenar nel suo libro Memorie di Adriano, pubblicato nel 1951. Da questa sua riflessione ancora attuale prende spunto il titolo di questa puntata di Moby Dick “Biblioteche e librerie: i granai delle parole”. Le parole, infatti, sono come semi che fanno germogliare idee e le biblioteche e librerie sono riserve di parole, libri: storie da conservare e diffondere.In questa puntata di Moby Dick cercheremo di capire com'è possibile oggi tenere viva la relazione, il dialogo fra i libri, le persone e il territorio e quali sono, quindi, le maggiori sfide per le biblioteche e le librerie in Ticino. Nel corso della puntata rifletteremo sull'importanza di educare alla lettura, di trasmettere il piacere di leggere, o rileggere, che da momento individuale, da vivere in silenzio, può trasformarsi, attraverso ad esempio i gruppi di lettura, in un rito collettivo in grado non solo di coinvolgere ma anche creare il senso di comunità. Ne parleremo con i nostri ospiti che sono Giorgia Schmid, che gestisce l'Ecolibro di Biasca, Luca Pascoletti, responsabile della libreria del LAC fin dalla sua apertura, Prisca Costantini del Segnalibro. Nell'ultima parte invece sarà ospite Stefano Vassere, direttore delle Biblioteche cantonali e del Sistema bibliotecario ticinese.

Trentanove persone persero la vita allo stadio Heysel di Bruxelles, prima della finale di coppa dei campioni tra Juventus e Liverpool.Quarant'anni fa, il momento più tragico della storia del calcio cambiò per sempre la nostra percezione e la passione per quella disciplina sportiva. L'evento segnò centinaia di famiglie in tutta Europa (i feriti furono oltre seicento), i giocatori in campo, gli spettatori davanti alla televisione, i giornalisti presenti allo stadio, chiamati a raccontare una vicenda che ancora oggi lascia increduli e impotenti.undefinedEsiste un “prima” e un “dopo” Heysel. Lo sport ha provato a rimuovere quella vicenda (il sito della UEFA dedicato alla Champions' League non riporta nulla di quel match se non il tabellino con giocatori, marcatori e ammoniti, perfino lo stadio viene chiamato con il nome assegnato in seguito, ovvero “Re Baldovino”), l'arte e la letteratura invece non hanno dimenticato, e ancora oggi si interrogano sulle conseguenze di quell'evento. Per la nostra società civile, per la storia e per tutti noi.undefinedCon Massimo Raffaeli, saggista, critico letterario traduttore del lavoro “Le gradinate dell'Heysel” del saggista e critico belga Pol Vandromme. Alberto Cerruti, decano dei giornalisti sportivi e commentatore del Corriere del Ticino, e il contributo delle Teche RSI, con interviste al calciatore Paolo Rossi, al regista Tullio Emilio Giordana e a Gabriele Albertini, commentatore televisivo della RSI presente alla partita. Tenemmo la Coppa, il sangue era nostroundefined

In burocratese viene chiamata “realizzazione del nodo intermodale alla stazione FFS di Locarno-Muralto”, nel concreto si tratta di dare una nuova fruibilità all'intero comparto, che rappresenta pur sempre il terminale di Alptransit nel Locarnese. Ogni giorno vi transitano circa 17mila500 passeggeri e 20mila veicoli privati.Numeri che pesano sempre più sulla stazione ferroviaria e sulla viabilità di questo quartiere, situato in territorio di Muralto ma a due passi dal lago Verbano e dal centro storico di Locarno, una delle maggiori mete turistiche del Canton Ticino. Dopo discussioni, petizioni e progetti, che si protraggono ormai da oltre dieci anni, il Gran Consiglio ha deciso lo scorso mese di settembre di dare il proprio via libera alla realizzazione di questo nuovo nodo intermodale, voluto anche per facilitare ancor più l'utilizzo dei mezzi pubblici. Un progetto che prevede un investimento totale di 16 milioni di franchi - 7 versati dal Canton Ticino mentre oltre 5 giungeranno dalla Confederazione - contro cui però è stato lanciato un referendum dal comitato “Salviamo Viale Cattori”. Quasi 10mila le firme raccolte da chi ritiene che questo progetto sia troppo “impattante e penalizzante per territorio, ambiente e sicurezza”.Si voterà il tutto il Ticino, il prossimo 15 di giugno. Noi ne discuteremo con:- Renza De Dea, prima coordinatrice del comitato “Salviamo Viale Cattori” - Cristina Zanini Barzaghi, gran consigliera e co-presidente del comitato “Sì alla porta d'accesso del Locarnese” undefined

- Elisabetta Tisi, parroca della Chiesa cattolica cristiana del Ticino, questa domenica conclude un ciclo di meditazioni bibliche incentrate sul tema della resurrezione, con un percorso che da Pasqua porta all'Ascensione. Commentando il versetto in cui Gesù dice “Non vi lascerò orfani; tornerò da voi”, la parroca Tisi spiega che l'Ascensione di Gesù indica non la lontananza, ma al contrario la prossimità fra Dio e il genere umano. Il mondo stesso è il luogo per eccellenza in cui possiamo incontrare Dio.“Fermiamo l'odio, aiutiamo i costruttori di pace” è un progetto promosso dalla Federazione delle chiese evangeliche in Italia (FCEI) e dalla rivista e Centro Studi Confronti. L'obiettivo è contrastare la crescente polarizzazione e dare voce a chi in Israele e Palestina, nonostante il dolore e la perdita, sceglie di costruire ponti anziché muri. Ne parliamo con Debora Spini (FCEI), Ahmed El Helou (Combatants for Peace) e Yonatan Zeigen (Parents Circle – Families Forum).- La sessione primaverile del Sinodo della Chiesa evangelica riformata nel Ticino (CERT) ha celebrato i 50 anni dalla votazione con cui la CERT fu riconosciuta come ente di diritto pubblico. Fu un passaggio tutt'altro che formale, che sancì fra l'altro anche la possibilità di proporre l'insegnamento di religione evangelica nella scuola ticinese e la possibilità di offrire un servizio di cappellania nelle carceri. Al Sinodo cantonale sono intervenuti come ospiti la pastora Rita Famos, presidente della Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera e l'on. Norman Gobbi, consigliere di Stato e direttore del Dipartimento delle istituzioni.

- «Vi do un nuovo comandamento: che vi amiate gli uni gli altri». Con queste parole Gesù lascia ai suoi discepoli l'eredità più importante. È come se dicesse, anche oggi, “siccome io vi ho amato, siccome avete sperimentato cosa significhi essere amati, allora potete amare a vostra volta”. È l'amore divino che ci dà la misura e la forza per amare concretamente le altre persone. Su questi temi si svolge la meditazione biblica proposta questa settimana da Elisabetta Tisi, parroca della Chiesa cattolica cristiana del Ticino.- Nell'ambito del suo 25.o anniversario, la Comunità di lavoro delle Chiese cristiane nel Canton Ticino (CLCCT) organizza la seconda edizione della Notte delle Chiese, che si terrà a Lugano venerdì 23 maggio. L'iniziativa si inserisce nella scia di eventi analoghi che si terranno la stessa sera con modalità diverse in tutta la Svizzera. La Notte delle Chiese, aperta a tutti, consiste in un percorso ecumenico a piedi alla scoperta di alcune chiese di Lugano e delle comunità che fanno parte della CLCCT. Nell'anno del 1700.o anniversario del primo Concilio ecumenico, quello di Nicea, ad ogni tappa verrà commentata una parte del Credo niceno-costantinopolitano. Parliamo di questo evento con il pastore riformato Daniele Campoli, presidente della CLCCT.

Questo documentario interroga la questione della migrazione attraverso la lente della salute mentale, restituendo un racconto polifonico fatto di voci professionali e testimonianze dirette.Con l'etnologopedista Francine Rosenbaum, esploriamo del linguaggio della lingua materna, mentre la psicoterapeuta Elia Carenzio Sala – laureata in etnopsichiatria che anche lei ha lavorato per oltre trent'anni nelle strutture pubbliche del Canton Ticino – riflette sulle sfide dell'accoglienza terapeutica in contesti multiculturali.Ad affiancarle, le parole di don Giusto, parroco di Rebbio a Como che collabora con le associazioni del Ticino che da assistenza a persone migranti tutti i giorni. Un viaggio tra psiche e confini, per ascoltare ciò che spesso rimane inascoltato.

Greg Meier e due colubri ospiti di LollyDay, un occasione per conoscere più da vicino il mondo dei serpenti ticinesi.Per avvicinarvi senza timore a questo mondo che convive con noi, Greg ha scritto un libro pazzesco "Alla scoperta dei rettili del Ticino".Oltre a questo, Greg gira le scuole del nostro cantone per insegnare ai futuri adulti ticinesi a convivere serenamente con queste meravigliose creature speciali.

Tanti gli argomenti emersi stamattina in compagnia di Miriam Castellani, presidente dell'associazione Adotta Un Cane in Ticino e Michael Naef, riabilitatore cinofilo.

- In che modo mettersi all'ascolto di Dio, che è silenzioso ma non muto? Dubitando di lui: bisogna dubitare di conoscerlo, per dargli spazio e possibilità di manifestarsi. È quanto afferma Elisabetta Tisi, parroca della Chiesa cattolica cristiana del Ticino, che durante il mese di maggio propone un ciclo di quattro meditazioni su cosa significhi la resurrezione nella vita e nella fede. Pasqua – spiega – significa liberazione dall'Egitto, cioè da tutti quei luoghi stretti che ci tengono lontani dalla pienezza della vita. “Qualunque sia il luogo stretto nel tuo mondo, nella tua mente, nella tua vita, Dio ti dice: ti porto via di lì”, afferma Elisabetta Tisi.- In più di 60 paesi nel mondo l'omosessualità è considerata un reato; in alcuni di essi è punibile con la pena di morte. A Lugano si tiene il 21 maggio una Veglia ecumenica di preghiera, per il superamento dell'omobitransfobia, presso la basilica del Sacro Cuore. Promuove l'iniziativa il gruppo “La Porta aperta”, nato in seno all'Azione cattolica ticinese. Aderiscono anche la Chiesa evangelica riformata nel Ticino (Cert) e la Chiesa cattolica cristiana del Ticino. Ne parliamo con Emilio Motta, del gruppo promotore. - Il numero di maggio del mensile “Voce evangelica” – edito dalla Conferenza delle Chiese evangeliche di lingua italiana in Svizzera propone un Dossier dedicato al tema “Sessualità, dono di Dio”. Ne parliamo con la caporedattrice, Gaëlle Courtens.

Alessandro Barloggio è il primo uomo in Ticino a frequentare la formazione da estetista AFC. Dopo un percorso incerto tra liceo e grafica, ha scelto un mestiere che ama, anche se fuori dagli schemi.Ha nascosto a lungo la passione per il make-up e le unghie, ma ora è iniziato un nuovo capitolo. Lavora a Minusio ed è fiero della sua scelta: «Non sono l'uomo classico, ma sto bene così». Una chiacchierata di ispirazione e oltre i pregiudizi nella settimana nazionale della Formazione professionale in cui quasi tutti i cantoni vogliono far conoscere ai giovani le opportunità di formazione in ambito professionale.

Una giovane donna, una storia intensa e un mestiere antico che resiste al tempo. Marisol Bozzano, 21 anni, è apprendista scalpellina: scolpisce la pietra e ha trovato così la sua strada. Le brillano gli occhi quando parla di piode, fontane e bordure. Dalla Colombia al Ticino, passando per tante esperienze, oggi ci racconta perché ha scelto un lavoro raro… ma ancora molto vivo.

Dopo il mancato raggiungimento della maggioranza richiesta nella prima votazione, il Bundestag si è riunito nuovamente nel pomeriggio per una seconda votazione. Con 325 voti, Friedrich Merz è stato eletto Cancelliere della Germania. Ce ne parla da Berlino Daniel Mosseri, giornalista freelance, scrive per Il Foglio, Panorama, e il Corriere del Ticino.Il primo ministro israeliano Benjamin Netanyahu ha annunciato una massiccia invasione a Gaza da parte dell'IDF. Nel frattempo, Tel Aviv bombarda lo Yemen. Ne parliamo con Alessia Melcangi, professoressa di Storia e istituzioni dell'Africa alla Sapienza Università di Roma, e con Lazar Berman, reporter di The Times of Israel.

Nell'ambito della Settimana della formazione professionale in Svizzera, ospitiamo DanielaBuehrig, vice direttrice dell'Associazione Industrie Ticinesi e Oscar Gonzalez, nuovo aggiunto al direttore presso la Divisione professionale del DECS.

- La resurrezione riguarda personalmente ciascuna persona: non è un dogma, ma una possibilità di vita e tutto il messaggio evangelico non riguarda il tema “come posso andare nel Regno dei cieli dopo la morte”, ma “come posso vivere il Regno dei cieli durante la mia vita”. Elisabetta Tisi, parroca della Chiesa cattolica cristiana del Ticino, propone un ciclo di quattro meditazioni su cosa significhi la resurrezione nella vita e nella fede.- La Chiesa evangelica riformata del Sottoceneri aderisce al progetto “Toilet Twinning”, dell'associazione Tearfund: questo ente di beneficenza cristiano raccoglie fondi per realizzare servizi igienici in paesi in cui la carenza di acqua potabile e igiene sono una delle cause principali di malattie per le popolazioni locali. Obiettivo del progetto è di garantire a tutti e tutte dei servizi igienici sicuri e dignitosi: un obiettivo che appare scontato nella parte più ricca del pianeta, ma che non lo è affatto in molti paesi poveri. - A Lugano, Cena interreligiosa promossa dal Forum svizzero per il dialogo interreligioso e interculturale. Durante la serata, che si terrà presso la Comunità aramaica di Pregassona, verranno anche eseguiti canti e melodie della tradizione aramaica e di quella islamica. - Il numero di maggio del mensile “Voce evangelica” (della Conferenza delle Chiese di lingua italiana in Svizzera) presenta un Dossier sul tema della sessualità. Ne parliamo con la caporedattrice Gaëlle Courtens.

Oggi, nel podcast del Corriere del Ticino, affrontiamo un tema non molto conosciuto, una vera e propria piaga invisibile, quella della tratta degli esseri umani, una forma moderna e occulta di schiavitù. Gli sfruttatori impongono la loro volontà arrivando ad impiegare mezzi di coercizione come intimidazioni, violenza verbale e fisica, minacce fondate su credenze religiose o di superstizione. Questa pratica è illegale anche se la vittima è consenziente. È un reato punito in Svizzera dall'articolo 182 del Codice penale. Oltre la metà degli individui coinvolti è sfruttato nell'ambito della prostituzione, esattamente il 56% su 269 casi registrati dal 2015 secondo i dati forniti dal Centro nazionale di segnalazione.Affrontiamo insieme questo viaggio di rinascita e riscatto attraverso le voci di chi combatte ogni giorno per la libertà di queste persone, arrivate in Svizzera con un sogno nel cassetto… che si è velocemente trasformato in un incubo. Il reportage completo di video, dati e infografica, è stato pubblicato il 23 novembre 2022 sul sito internet e potete consultarlo all'indirizzo cdtlink.ch/tratta.Vuoi inviarci una segnalazione? Scrivi a redazioneweb@cdt.ch oppure su WhatsApp: +41 79 596 64 11

Lo sapevo che l'Ordine degli Avvocati del Ticino offre un servizio di consulenza giuridica di 30 minuti a 30 franchi? Se desideri ulteriori informazioni clicca qui.Ascolta il podcast in compagnia dell'avvocato Christopher Jackson.

I nostri graditi ospitiMiriam Castellani, presidente dell'associazione Adotta un cane in Ticino e Michael Naef, educatore, ci hanno accompagnato in una simpatica ed interessante ora condita dalle vostre domande.

La galleria ferroviaria di Alptransit ha rivoluzionato la mobilità fra il Canton Ticino e il resto della Svizzera, creando nuove forme di pendolarismo. Negli ultimi anni decine e decine di Ticinesi scelgono di prendere il treno ogni mattina per andare a lavorare… ad Altdorf, in Canton Uri.Non Zurigo. Non Lucerna. Altdorf: la prima fermata dopo il Gottardo, patria di Guglielmo Tell, una sparuta cittadina in mezzo alle Alpi di soli 10'000 abitanti. Un quarto della popolazione di Bellinzona, un sesto di quella di Lugano. Eppure, grazie ad Alptransit e al fabbisogno di professionisti specializzati, Altdorf è diventata per molti la nuova El Dorado, una terra di opportunità lavorative raggiungibile dal Ticino in soli 30-50 minuti. El Doraltdorf è un reportage su rotaia – non un on the road, bensì un on the rail! – per conoscere le storie di chi ad Altdorf ha trovato salari più alti, una migliore cultura del lavoro e, sì, anche la felicità.Con Francesco (da Massagno) e Jacopo (da Bellinzona), docenti di matematica al Liceo di Altdorf; Malte (da Giubiasco), specialista in trasporti per la Emil Gisler di Seedorf; Kathrin (da Bosco Luganese) e Pamela (da Bellinzona) tecniche di radiologia al Kantonsspital Uri; Roberto (da Ponte Tresa), parrucchiere frontaliere nel centro storico di Altdorf; Laura (da Massagno), bioingegnera e ricercatrice presso la Dätwyler, una delle maggiori aziende dell'industria urana. Con la partecipazione del sindaco di Altdorf Sebastian Züst.

Le collaborazioni transfrontaliere tra le forze di polizia sono sempre più all'ordine del giorno. L'ultima riguarda il Ticino. Sono infatti nate le pattuglie miste che in acqua presidieranno il Ceresio e il Lago Maggiore. Anche sui treni si sperimenta la cooperazione tra agenti italiani e svizzeri, e nuovi territori, come la Valle d'Aosta e il Canton Vallese collaborano reciprocamente per garantire maggiore sicurezza alle popolazioni. A fare scuola, alcuni anni fa, è stata l'esperienza positiva che la Polizia cantonale grigionese ha messo in campo congiuntamente all'Amministrazione federale delle dogane e all'autorità doganali austriache nella zona di confine con l'Austria. Da quell'esperienza ormai decennale è nato l'accordo internazionale che ha coinvolto Grigioni e Regione Lombardia e ha messo su strada nel 2020 le prime pattuglie miste composte cioè da agenti italiani e svizzeri.E a giudicare dai risultati raggiunti sino ad ora possiamo dire davvero che la sicurezza è aumentata sulla fascia del confine.

I posti letto per minorenni nei reparti psichiatrici ticinesi sono pochi rispetto alle richieste.Cosa sta succedendo?Lo abbiamo chiesto al dottor Daniele Garino, medico psichiatra presso la Clinica Santa Croce di Orselina.

A Buon Pome oggi ospite Marianne, creatrice di www.newdating.ch un sito per incontri sicuro, che organizza incontri, eventi e workshop in Ticino.Siete curiosi?Ascoltate la puntata con Maxi B.BUON POME con Maxi BDa lunedì a giovedì dalle 14:00 alle 16:00 Venerdì dalle 13:00 alle 15:00

Part 1 is all about the drama of the 2024/25 UEFA Conference League. Bosnia & Herzegovina, Iceland and Ireland have their first-ever representatives in a European knockout stage, Portugal's Vitoria de Guimaraes set a new continental away day record, Omonia's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" coach is sacked & the reserves of English giants Chelsea run riot. To help us review the action, we have a panel of experts from across Europe: Andy Brassell from On The Continent in the UK, Hinrik Wöhler from Vísir in Iceland & Massimo Solari of Corriere del Ticino in Switzerland.   In Part 2, Lee and Paul have their world football knowledge put to the test by Joe McAuliffe of the excellent Career We Go football trivia podcast. Finally, we review our favourite stories, topics and trips of 2024 – from the Marítimo-Nacional derby on the island of Madeira to San Marino's first win in 20 years over Liechtenstein in the UEFA Nations League – and look ahead to our plans for 2025. Finally, a big thank you from us to our editors, partners, collaborators, listeners and patrons. We wish you a happy Christmas & all the best for the new year! Remember that if you don't want to wait until 8 January for your next dose of Sweeper goodness, you can sign up to our Patreon at patreon.com/SweeperPod and listen to our bonus podcast on New Year's Day. Becoming a member of our Patreon means you are supporting our independent journalism and getting access to a load of great content, such as bonus episodes, blogs, a weekly World Football Newsletter, access to our Discord server and entry into our football shirt giveaways. There are no contracts, no sign-up fees, no minimum stays and no advertisements. Watch back our UEFA Conference League final matchday watch-along on ⁠X⁠ or ⁠Facebook⁠. RUNNING ORDER: 00:00 – Intro 02:45 – Shamrock Rovers with Andy Brassell 08:06 – Conference League or Nations League? 10:26 – Víkingur Reykjavík with Hinrik Wöhler 14:38 – A trigger-happy Bosnian club president 17:50 – Lugano with Massimo Solari 23:44 – Crazy European away day records 27:25 – World football trivia with Career We Go 46:34 – Our best stories, matches & trips of 2024 Please leave us a rating or review on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. It means a great deal to us and will make it easier for other potential listeners to discover our show. Thanks for your support! Editor: Ralph Foster

In this episode, Lattice coach Ella Russell chats with climbing icon Melissa Le Nevé to dive into her incredible journey from competition success to legendary outdoor ascents. Melissa shares her experiences, from claiming the first female ascent of the iconic Action Direct (9a / 5.14d) in the Frankenjura to her current project on the historic Dreamtime (8C / V15) in Ticino.They explore Melissa's unique approach to training, including her recent gains in finger strength, her passion for combining climbing with paragliding, and how she balances bouldering, sport climbing, and multi-pitch routes like Le Voyage (E10 7a) and Delicatessen (8b / 5.13d). Whether you're seeking training inspiration or simply love hearing from the greats, this episode offers something for everyone.Key TakeawaysMelissa's transition from competitions to iconic outdoor challenges.Behind the scenes of her first female ascent of Action Direct and her ongoing work on Dreamtime.The difference between French and British training approaches and how Melissa saw surprising finger strength gains.How paragliding complements her climbing lifestyle.Her plans for future projects, including Biography (9a+ / 5.15a) and Bon Voyage (9a E12).Don't miss this epic episode! Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast platform.The Lattice jingle is brought to you by Devin Dabney, music producer of the outdoor industry who also hosts the American Climbing Project.

Il mondo dei nostri amici a 4 zampe raccontato da voi e dai nostri due splendidi ospiti: Miriam Castellani, presidente dell'associazione Adotta un Cane in Ticino e Michael Naef, educatore cinofilo.

Greg Meier ospite di Lolly per parlarci della sua convivenza speciale e del suo libro "Alla scoperta dei rettili del Ticino".

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, A diver has died in a cave in the Swiss canton of Ticino, with recovery of his body now presenting a challenge to expert rescuers. A blind BBC journalist and a paraplegic amputee, both from Lancashire, are hoping to have an hour-long Red Sea dive to a maximum depth of 40m carried out as a buddy-pair recognised by Guinness World Records. After five years of work, England's biggest seagrass-restoration project has come to a close, with its results described as “incredibly promising” for the future. Leading liveaboard holiday companies Emperor Divers and Solomon Islands-based Bilikiki Cruises have joined forces.A last-minute reprieve for half of the shipwreck treasures that had looked set to be dispersed into private collections at an auction in Cornwall from tomorrow (6 November) has been provided by UK charity the Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust (MAST).https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/extracting-cave-divers-body-technically-demanding/ https://divernet.com/scuba-diving/v6-blind-paraplegic-buddy-pair-claim-dive-record/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/conservation/english-seagrass-success-promises-worldwide-boost/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/emperor-divers-announces-new-partnership-with-bilikiki-cruises/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/wrecks/mast-steps-in-to-save-museum-shipwreck-items/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/two-well-known-dive-liveboards-blaze/Websitehttps://www.scubadivermag.comInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/scubadivermagazine/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/scubadivermag/YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/c/ScubaDiverMagazine/Scuba Diver Magazinescubadivermag.com/subscriptions

Aidan Roberts returns to the podcast! Aidan is at the cutting edge of bouldering and is one of the most genuine people I've had the pleasure of talking to. We talk about professional climbing and today's media landscape, and he brings us up to speed on the last year and a half of his climbing and shares the full stories of ‘Spots of Time' and ‘Arrival of the Birds', two new boulders proposed 9A/V17.We recorded this a couple of days after my chat with him and Sam on their podcast. I was honored to join them and I loved the conversation. Check it out for some reflections amongst the three of us about our podcasting and climbing.Watch the Video Interview:EP 223: Aidan Roberts Returns — Uncut VideoBecome a Patron - 7 Day Free Trial!patreon.com/thenuggetclimbing Check out Mad Rock!madrock.comUse code “NUGGET” at checkout for 10% off your next order!The Nugget is sponsored by BetterHelp!betterhelp.com/NUGGETUse this link for 10% off your first month!PhysiVantage SUMMER SPECIAL!physivantage.com/discount/NUG20Use code "NUG20" at checkout for 20% off your next order of collagen or protein!Check out Rhino Skin Solutions!rhinoskinsolutions.comUse code “NUGGET” at checkout for 20% off your next order! We are supported by these amazing BIG GIVERS:Michael Roy, Craig Lee, Mark and Julie Calhoun, Yinan Liu, Zach Emery, Alex Pluta, and Matt WalterShow Notes:  thenuggetclimbing.com/episodes/aidan-roberts-returnsNuggets:(00:00:00) – Intro(00:04:59) – Recooperation phase(00:08:18) – Powering through(00:10:24) – Course corrections(00:13:58) – Climbing as his work(00:21:45) – Enduring austerity(00:24:17) – His role as a pro climber(00:29:28) – Our relationships with climbing(00:35:54) – Navigating pro climbing(00:45:44) – Valuing integrity(00:49:11) – Climbing media & being impressionable(00:52:51) – Reflecting on experiences(01:04:23) – Aidan's last year and a half(01:08:54) – The Midnight Project (Arrival of the Birds)(01:33:30) – Trying Burden last Fall(01:41:47) – Ticino with Shawn Raboutou(01:46:41) – Back to The Midnight Project(01:50:28) – The Helvellyn Project (Spots of Time)(02:03:39) – Training in the UK last winter(02:07:03) – Sending Spots of Time(02:08:18) – Sending Arrival of the Birds(02:30:31) – Glimpsing mastery(02:33:33) – Appreciating the places we climb(02:38:06) – Proposing grades(02:52:01) – Is Arrival of the Birds 9A+?(03:08:35) – Exhausted & reexamining eating(03:12:42) – His foot injury & next climbing steps(03:14:23) – Plans for an EXTRA(03:18:22) – An adventurous attitude(03:20:04) – Burden of Dreams(03:26:03) – Finnish bouldering(03:32:48) – Wrap up