Cortona, Hotel Oasi
Cortona Week 1998
Future Visions
Future Visions
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
Fritjof Capra, 1998
physicist and systems theorist
Chungliang “Al” Huang, 1998
philosopher, author and Tai Ji master
Lynn Margulis, 1998
evolutionary biologist
Richard R. Ernst, 1998
chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Renuka Singh, 1998
sociologist and scholar of Buddhism and gender studies
Cortona Week 1998 photographs
1998 · Finding a shared language through rhythm 1998 · Calligraphy on the blackboard 1998 · Afternoon practice in the old hall