Innovation Festival, in Bari the challenge of the future is technology. And … – The Republic

Interactivity is the buzzword of the Innovation Festival that, 21 to 23 May, will create a short time in the heart of Bari. They will be in fact the places of interest and containers historical and cultural city to become the stage of the fourth edition of the event promoted from the Arti, the Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation. Is Piazza del Ferrarese, dining Murat, Vallisa auditorium, the fort St. Anthony, the Chamber of Commerce and the Margherita theater that speaks: for three days in a row their spaces between exhibits and will welcome more than 60 workshops, meetings , exhibitions and art installations.

“We started from the idea that – explains Eva Milella, president of the Arti – innovation involves everyone, hence the idea to relocate the festival in the symbolic places of the city center of Bari. also to facilitate, through interactivity, active involvement of the public. We will show, in practice, because the Puglia has grown innovation. Starting with the dialogue with the younger players to play in key educational and educational workshops: today we collected the beauty of 3 thousand and 700 applications from students, from elementary to middle, from schools across the region. ” And the title and slogan chosen for this year’s festival is “See the future through the present”, to emphasize how innovation is now part of everyday life in Puglia.

“The festival will showcase a concrete and real than it is done in this decade and – said Alba Sasso, regional minister for right to study – you also tell the lines of work on innovation, starting with the youth policy. This is the case, for example, of “Bollenti spirits”, a ‘initiative that promoted the collective intelligence: it was a waste of money. “

In the yard even three keynote – that will get in the chair characters like the semiotician Pino Donghi, artist and hacker Salvatore Iaconesi and mathematician Piergiorgio odifreddi entire architecture of the program of the festival, said the president of the Arti, “we tried to combine different languages ​​and thus break down the bridge between the two cultures.” The full program of the event,

then, room for “Stories of extraordinary innovation” will be discussed by example of how nanomaterials and innovative technologies will be able to preserve the beauty of baroque treasures in local stone, or even of that ‘ evolving universe that, in Puglia, is the district of mechatronics, as well as the use of stem cells in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases (the program of festivalinnovazione.puglia.it).

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