Cortona, Hotel Oasi
Cortona Week 1991
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
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, 1991
neuroscientist, biologist and philosopher
Albert Hofmann, 1991
chemist and discoverer of LSD
Chaturvedi Badrinath, 1991
philosopher, author and civil servant
Hans Primas, 1991
theoretical chemist and philosopher of science
Cliff Saron, 1991
neuroscientist and contemplative science researcher
Cortona Week 1991 photographs
1991 · A question held in an outdoor circle 1991 · Cello and saxophone meet in the lecture room 1991 · Knowledge passes through hands 1991 · Calligraphy opens another way of thinking