RESONANCES – Art – Politics

Milan Superstudio Più Gallery 13-14 October 2015

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Joint JointResearch ResearchCentre Centre Josephine Green

Beyond20:21st Century Stories, former director of trends and strategy at Philips Design “We have to embrace complexity and connectivity if we are to live well and prosper in the future” For a number of decades we have been talking about how the world will change and is changing but now something dramatic has happened the world has changed. Despite this many of our institutions, our corporations, our education systems and ourselves, have not yet realized it. History fast forwards to the future but we too often hold back trying to mould this new complex reality to a simpler time. Josephine explores and articulates this critical period of transformation and challenges us to think and to act differently in our world. She believes we need a different way of framing, creating, innovating and being in the world if we are to live well, prosper and safeguard the future. She demonstrates the very real need to go beyond the present growth paradigm, to decentralize and distribute innovation, creativity and design and to embrace complexity through new organizational, cultural and leadership models. Josephine regularly delivers international presentations and is an advisor to European Futures and Research platforms. She lectures in masters and executive education programs at a number of UK and European Universities and is Visiting Professor at the University of Northumberland at the faculty of Art and Design and Social . Josephine was appointed Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips Design, in the Netherlands in 1997. She left Philips in 2009 to return to the UK and her company, Beyond20:21st Century Stories explores our Change of Age. She studied History and Politics at Warwick University and has lived and worked in the UK, and Holland.

Ezio Manzini

Chair Professor UAL, London, and DESIS Network For more than two decades he has been working in the field of design for sustainability. Most recently, his interests have focussed on social innovation, considered as a major driver of sustainable changes. In this perspective he started DESIS: an international network of schools of design specifically active in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability (http://www.desis-network.org). Presently, he is Chair Professor of Design for Social Innovation at the University of the Arts London (London), Honorary Professor at the Politecnico di Milano and Guest Professor at Tongji University (Shanghai) and Jiangnan University (Wuxi). In addition to his continuous involvement in the design for sustainability arena, he has explored and promoted design potentialities in different fields, such as: Design of Materials, in the 80s; Strategic Design, in the 90s (starting a Master in Strategic Design); Service Design, in the last ten years (starting the specific courses in Service Design). His most recent book is “Design, When Everybody Designs. An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation”, MIT Press 2015.

Franz Fishler

Chairman, European Union Scientific Steering Committee for Expo 2015 Franz Fischler chairs the Expo 2015 EU Scientific Steering Committee. He is an Austrian politician an was the European Union's Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries (1995–2004). Currently he is President of the European Forum Alpbach. Born in Absam, Tyrol he studied agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, and finished as Dr rer.nat.oec. in 1978.[1] He worked as University assistant from 1973 to 1979, then for the Tyrol Chamber of Agriculture, finally as its director from 1985 to 1989. Between 1989 and 1994 Fischler was Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, and since 1990 elected Member of National Council. In 1995 he became European Commissioner in Brussels, responsible for agriculture and rural development.I n 1999 fisheries also became part of his responsibilities. At the 1999 Berlin summit, Franz Fischler had significant influence on the Agenda 2000. In 2011 Austria has decided to nominate Dr. Franz Fischler as a candidate for the position of director general of FAO.

Massimo Montanari

University of Bologna Massimo Montanari (1949) teaches Medieval Economic History and Food History at Bologna University (Department of History and Cultures). He taught seminars and lectures all over , , , the , , Colombia, Brazil. He is the founder and director of the Master "Storia e cultura dell'alimentazione" (Food history and culture) instituted in 2002 at Bologna University, then become a european master held in collaboration with the universities of Tours and Barcelona (since 2009, Tours and Bruxelles). He has been up to 2008 the editor-in-chef of the international review "Food & History", published by Brepols, Turnhout (Belgium).

From 1979 onwards, he published a number of books about these topics, translated in several languages. Among others (only English titles): The culture of food, Oxford UK - Cambridge USA, Blackwell, 1994 (paperback 1996). Food. A culinary history, New York, Columbia University Press, 1999. Penguin Books, 2000 (edited with J.L.Flandrin). Italian cuisine. A cultural history, New York, Columbia University Press, 2003 (with A.Capatti). Food is culture, New York, Columbia University Press, 2006. Cheese, pears, and history in a proverb. New York, Columbia University Press, 2010. Let the meatballs rest. New York, Columbia University Press, 2012. A cultural history of food in the Medieval Age, edited by Massimo Montanari, London-New York, Berg, 2012. Italian identity in the kitchen, New York, Columbia University Press, 2013. Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table, New York, Columbia University Press, 2015.

Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter

Design experience & artworks: past 5 years 2015 • Eat Art Performance: "EAT | rules | DESIGN” for the theatre: "Republic" in Salzburg • Clean Art Performance: "slogging away clean" for the Festival der Regionen • Online Installation: "sustainable-fooddesign" • Participation at the group exhibition: "Austrian Design Explosion" at the Palazzo Triennale in Milano/ IT • Participation at the group exhibition: "Arts & Foods" at the Palazzo Triennale in Milano/IT • Participation at the group exhibition: "food design" at the Castel dellÓvo in Naples/Italy 2014 • Eat Art Performance: "ASCHERmittwoch SALZburg" for Kunsthotel Blaue Gans in Salzburg/AT • Exclusive Work for the permanent exhibition "Schausammlung" for the Museum for Applied Arts (MAK)/ Vienna/AT • Installation: eat | body | design for the "Museum Bärengasse" in Zürich/CH 2013 • Exhibition: "Food Design", Museum August Kestner in Hannover/GER • Participation at the group exhibition: "Süße Lust" at MZM Mistelbach/AUT • Participation at the group exhibition: "Progetto Cibo" at MART Roveretto/IT • Exhibition: "food | design | humanity" for the Lodz Design Festival/PL • Participation at the group exhibition: "MOTI HOTEL" at Museum of the Image/ Breda/NL 2012 • Eat Art Performance: "food operation 012" for Salone di Mobile Milan/Italy • Eat Art Performance: "eat design" for Premsela/Amsterdam/NL • Eat Art Performance: "dinner parking" for Designmonat Graz/AT • Interior Design and execution for the fashion shop "ARTUP" in Vienna/AT • Exhibition: "Food Design", Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen/GER • Participation at the group exhibition „de etende mens" at designhuis Eindhoven/NL 2011 • Eat Art Performance: "KNACK" for the Museum of Applied Arts MAK/Vienna • Eat Art Work: "table manners" for the Biennale/ Gwangju/ Korea • Eat Design Performance: "food tools" for the Vienna Design Week • Exhibition: "food design"/ Salzburg/AT 2010 • Architectural design for a Villa in Croatia

Compagnia Grande Giro

Lea Lechler, Valentina Bianda, Daniele Bianco The company Grande Giro starts in 2011, with Lea Lechner and Danile Bianco, after they finished their studies at “Scuola Teatro Dimitri” in Locarno (CH). They combine theatre and dance. In 2013 Valentina Bianda joined, who got a degree at the European Theatre Institute in Berlin (DE). The variety of backgrounds and experiences allows for the use of different theatre languages and collaborations with or artistic groups. They operate in Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

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