THEMEETING DE.SIDERED

"Men from different nations had the same dream, they saw a woman running at night through an unknown city, from behind, with long hair, and she was naked. They dreamed of chasing her. Round and round, each one lost her. After the dream they went looking for that city; they did not find it but they found each other; they decided to build a city like in the dream." - I. Calvino, Invisible Cities.

The endless journey dedicated to the research and exploration of possible worlds that ISMO has been undertaking for many years with colleagues, experts and practitioners from different fields of knowledge and action continues.
The new cycle is dedicated to politics understood as that more or less light body of rules and methods that make possible not only co-habitation but also co-living.
In the Western imagination, the Greek polis, from which the term 'politics' derives, is that place where freedom and conventionality, individual and subject, identity and hospitality, utilitarian exchange and gift for the pursuit of a common good are combined.

  • INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY
    MASSIMO CACCIARI January 31, 2008 | LavorInCorso - The inContro de.siderato Individual and society is a problematic pair full of paradoxes and aporias. Therefore, I will try to reflect on the criticality of ...
  • THE POLIS BETWEEN SIGN AND SYMBOL: for a psychology of coexistence.
    FRANCO DI MARIA Nov. 17, 2007 | LavorInCorso - The inContro de.siderato Is it possible to improve the "places of belonging" without knowing and being familiar with their "maps"?Is it possible to cultivate a ...
  • SEX AND THE POLIS
    EVA CANTARELLA October 13, 2007 | LavorInCorso - The inContro de.sidered Eros and Polis. Is it a foundational opposition?Eros is boundless and the bearer of disorder, Polis is capable of defining limits ...