Cortona, Hotel Oasi
Cortona Week 2003
Curiosity & Creativity
Curiosity & Creativity
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
Avshalom Elitzur, 2003
physicist and philosopher
Stuart Kauffman, 2003
theoretical biologist and complexity scientist
Luca Lombardi, 2003
composer and musicologist
Renuka Singh, 2003
sociologist and scholar of Buddhism and gender studies
Cortona Week 2003 photographs
2003 · A fire sculpture after dark