Cortona, Hotel Oasi
Cortona Week 1992
Borders & Limits
Borders & Limits
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, 1992
neuroscientist, biologist and philosopher
Hans Primas, 1992
theoretical chemist and philosopher of science
Terence McKenna, 1992
ethnobotanist, philosopher and author
Tullio Regge, 1992
theoretical physicist
Cortona Week 1992 photographs
1992 · Making requires patience, material and company 1992 · Franceso Varela: a lecture, and the attention gathered around it