2023 - DACD
SUPSI Image Focus
A lecture series that allows an in-depth examination of topical issues that affect everyone.
Climate change is altering the behaviour of natural elements, generating effects that are causing concern in science and politics. In July 2023, UN Secretary-General António Guterres spoke of a “state of global boiling”. The consequences of atmospheric warming simultaneously take different and even opposing forms: water and electricity shortages, floods, heat waves, fires and desertification. Extreme natural phenomena have become increasingly frequent even at our latitudes. Just think of the subject of water: while total rainfall decreases, precipitation becomes more intense and concentrated in short periods, with an exceptional increase in cloudbursts, hailstorms and floods.
The third cycle of Earth Emergency entitled “The elements in the age of climate change” devotes four public lectures to the theme of water, air, earth and fire (understood as energy). A fifth conference is devoted to the different ways of telling the climate story.
By listening to the speakers – some of the foremost experts on the subject – and engaging in dialogue with them, it will be possible to understand from various perspectives the metamorphoses altering the global and local environment and the challenges that lie ahead.
The lectures are held in the Sala polivalente (ground floor) of the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio (via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15). Refreshments will follow.
Free admission; registration required for organisational reasons.
Scientific head of the Earth Emergency lecture series: Prof. Matteo Vegetti.
Organisational coordinator: Tiziana Botticelli.
Supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Foundation for culture and Quickly.
Every year, the graphic design of the Earth Emergency lecture series is entrusted to students of the Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication SUPSI (Department of environment constructions and design), as part of the “Brand Basic” module in the first year. This is one of the first design jobs they are working on in small groups. For the 2023 edition, the graphic design project of students Micol Ferrini and Federica Giordano was considered the most relevant and with the most effective aesthetic and graphic impact.
The third cycle of Earth Emergency entitled “The elements in the age of climate change” devotes four public lectures to the theme of water, air, earth and fire (understood as energy). A fifth conference is devoted to the different ways of telling the climate story.
By listening to the speakers – some of the foremost experts on the subject – and engaging in dialogue with them, it will be possible to understand from various perspectives the metamorphoses altering the global and local environment and the challenges that lie ahead.
Programme 2023
Mercoledì 27.09.2023: Acqua
- Ore 18:30
Proiezione di cortometraggi a cura di Francesco Cara (professore di ecodesign, IED-Istituto europeo di design di Milano) e accompagnamento musicale di Zeno Gabaglio (violoncellista), in collaborazione con Climate Space - Ore 19:15
Antonello Pasini (fisico del clima, CNR-Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche): Siccità e alluvioni. Gli effetti del cambiamento climatico sul ciclo dell’acqua
Mercoledì 18.10.2023: Aria
- Ore 18:30
Amalia Ercoli Finzi (ingegnera aerospaziale): Terra in crisi: è ora di emigrare?
Giovedì 26.10.2023: Come si racconta il clima?
- Ore 17:30
Stralci della pièce C’ero clima io di Ferruccio Cainero (autore) con Franco di Leo e Federico Caprara (attori) - Ore 18:00
Tavola rotonda Come si racconta il clima con Telmo Pievani (filosofo della scienza, Università di Padova), Lisa Lurati (artista) e Cristian Scapozza (responsabile del Centro competenze cambiamento climatico e territorio SUPSI), modera Clara Caverzasio (divulgatrice scintifica), in collaborazione con l’associazione culturale Trame
Venerdì 15.12.2023: Fuoco
- Ore 18:30
Julia Steinberger (professoressa di ecologia economica, Università di Losanna): The role of energy for living well within planetary limits
Mercoledì 13.03.2024: Terra
- Ore 18:30
Emanuele Coccia (filosofo): Non chiamatela Gaia. Per un teatro planetario
The lectures are held in the Sala polivalente (ground floor) of the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio (via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15). Refreshments will follow.
Free admission; registration required for organisational reasons.
Scientific head of the Earth Emergency lecture series: Prof. Matteo Vegetti.
Organisational coordinator: Tiziana Botticelli.
Supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Foundation for culture and Quickly.
Graphic design
Every year, the graphic design of the Earth Emergency lecture series is entrusted to students of the Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication SUPSI (Department of environment constructions and design), as part of the “Brand Basic” module in the first year. This is one of the first design jobs they are working on in small groups. For the 2023 edition, the graphic design project of students Micol Ferrini and Federica Giordano was considered the most relevant and with the most effective aesthetic and graphic impact.