Science Festival

“La Scienza tra speranze e scoperte” was the theme of a series of activities aimed at a heterogeneous audience and school students. With P. Dambruoso we talked about critical raw materials and their impact in our daily life, while E. Mello explained to us the importance of safeguarding cultural monuments in order to give historical value to the context in which they live. We traveled in time: with G. Chinnici, along the various steps that led to modern science, starting from Democritus' atomism; F. Cassata told us about Primo Levi's attempt to build a bridge between scientific and humanistic cultures, while with F. Verso we outlined the socio-technological and political-economic scenarios of the next 30-40 years. With D. Comoretto we focused on the physical phenomena that generate color in the absence of pigments; moreover, during a scientific aperitif we observed the optical and fluorescence response of some common drinks.
Didactic exhibition and workshops were also held by students and teachers of the Asproni-Fermi Institute in Iglesias. Another interesting workshop, curated by F. Russo, concerned the lightpainting techniques. Conferences and workshops animated the Iglesiente area in a three-day event entirely dedicated to demonstrating the importance of research and the pleasure of discovery.

“Dalla parte del Pianeta” was the theme of a series of activities aimed at a heterogeneous audience and school students. We started from the exploration of the North Pole, with evocative stories and images on the environment, landscape and mining work (C. Marras), arriving at the South Pole where the evolution of the climate and the reaction of our planet to climate change was addressed (P.F. Rivaro). We spoke with M. Lumini on digital innovation, nanotechnologies, robotization and the risks of a complete artificialization of the Planet and its ecosystems. We have deepened with C. Fontaneto a path of environmental sustainability that allows us to reduce waste and encourage the reuse of contaminated water. Other aspects of chemistry on which we have focused are the development of Photochemistry, essential for many natural and non-natural reactions (A. Basso); and the development of new methods to describe atoms and molecules, important for studying their properties and transformations (G. Mancini).
With A. Perniola we discovered how man managed to conquer the sky and space; we concluded with an evocative narration, by P. Piccardo, in which a group of young people revealed the mystery that hovers around the first colony on the red planet.
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