Cortona, Hotel Oasi
Cortona Week 1989
Utopia & Science
Utopia & Science
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
Humberto Maturana, 1989
biologist, philosopher and co-developer of autopoiesis theory
Chaturvedi Badrinath, 1989
philosopher, author and civil servant
Hans Primas, 1989
theoretical chemist and philosopher of science
Cortona Week 1989 photographs
1989 · Stone carving workshop in the garden 1989 · A lecture becomes a shared visual language