Cortona, Hotel Oasi
Cortona Week 1986
Cortona 2
Cortona 2
For thirty editions, Cortona Week took place in a former monastery on a Tuscan hillside with the support of ETH Zurich. Pier Luigi Luisi founded and directed it until he retired from ETH in 2003. Reinhard Nesper, ETH Prof of Chemistry led it until 2014, followed by Gerd Folkers, ETH Prof of Pharmaceutical Chemistry from 2015 to 2017. Each edition took up a question of its time: Perception. Utopia & Science. Metamorphosis. Borders & Limits. Beauty. Non Local. I. Reproducibility. Uncertainty & Serendipity. Concepts on the Move.
People recorded for this edition
Francisco Varela, 1986
neuroscientist, biologist and philosopher
Albert Hofmann, 1986
chemist and discoverer of LSD
William Irwin Thompson, 1986
cultural historian, philosopher and social thinker
Cortona Week 1986 photographs
1986 · A question gathers its own circle 1986 · Afternoon workshop 1986 · Outdoor painting workshop 1986 · Lunch in the monastery dining room