Wednesday 16 April a new appointment of talks curated by the degree courses in Design
“Why should we trust politicians, industrialists and journalists?” The question, posed by sociologist Elisa Lello in the preface to Matthieu Amiech's book “The conspiracy industry – social networks, state lies and the destruction of living things”, will be one of the starting points for a meeting organized by the University of the Republic of San Marino in which the professor from the University of Urbino will meet with her colleague Luca Gorgolini, a professor on San Marino.
Appointment Wednesday 16 April at the university headquarters of the Ancient Monastery of Santa Chiara, in contrada Omerelli 20, in the historic center.
The initiative, curated by the Design degree courses, will focus on the ideas of a volume that starts from "an atmosphere of emergency and permanent crisis", in which "conspiracy theories are destined to proliferate, fueled by the Internet and social networks, but also by the nihilism of the oligarchies in power, increasingly responsible for the impoverishment of the population and the destruction of living conditions on earth. We are not faced with a few hidden puppeteers - Lello continues in his contribution - but an elite that makes no secret of wanting to centralize more and more money and power and that, thanks to the projects of total digitalization and control of living things, is putting individual and collective autonomy and freedom to the test, keeping people in a state of extraordinary dependence on the system".
The event will be part of a larger series of talks that on March 26 involved Simonetta Tunesi, author of the book “The future lies in the limits – ecosystems teach us how to do it”, specialized in the conservation and restoration of natural resources to protect public health and environmental quality. “From her – explains Elena Brigi, vice director of the three-year degree course in Design – a very timely intervention” followed the next day by a further contribution from designer Paolo Lorini. “He spoke to us, among other things, about how complex it is to work simultaneously on three different time zones and the challenges he faces together with his team to obtain results consistent with the needs of the moment”. This in the context of Midea, “a manufacturing company founded in 1968 and present today in almost the entire world”. It makes products in the field of refrigeration, both domestic and industrial. Within the company, Lorini holds the role of Head of Residential Air Conditioning team at Midea Milan Design Center.