Cortona, Hotel Oasi
Cortona Week 1996
Inside – Outside
Inside – Outside
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
Andrew Lange, 1996
astrophysicist and cosmologist
William Irwin Thompson, 1996
cultural historian, philosopher and social thinker
Cortona Week 1996 photographs
1996 · Stone carving along the monastery wall 1996 · The old dining hall becomes a place for practice 1996 · Fire turns material into experience