The Festival of growth, for the edition of Lucca, will take place in the historic setting of Palazzo Ducale arguing the issue of sustainable growth aimed at protecting this so that it can be a guarantee of a solid future. A "happy growth" in which development and innovation can be reconciled with social and environmental needs.
The format of this edition of the Festival will explore issues related to innovation, sustainability and creativity: a vital triangulation, educational and productive to 360 degrees for all areas of life and consumption. Alongside meetings and exchanges on the concrete value of sustainability as a development strategy, leverage and growth, there will be shares in Lucca on the frontiers of creativity and innovazionee creative performances open to the public.
Party in March from Rome, in the course of 2016 the Festival of growth will draw a real "map of the Growth" conl'obiettivo to create a virtuous circle between the protagonists of growth and development. The mesh fabric will give rise to an ongoing dialogue with the local reality and ensure its own physiognomy in each edition, enriching content and ideas related to the territory.
"The Festival addresses the issue of economic growth, transforming it from a developmental challenge enigma, cultural and productive," says Francesco Morace, sociologist and founder of the event.
The Lucca edition will develop in two days and will face horizons and particularly present projects in the challenges of the contemporary world, business, individual and territory:
Thursday, June 9, the focus will be on "innovation and sustainability" while Friday, June 10 will discuss "Education and creativity."
The articulation of the two days includes banquets, meetings and dialogues in which you will face challenges in the future. The full integration of thoughts, strategies and 'growing projects' presented in every day, will have a closure under the sign of artistic creativity: the reading "Letters that tell" on Thursday 9 and Concert by the School E.Pea Friday 10th .
Among the many prominent guests and participants, Stefania Giannini, Minister of Education, Eva Alessi, Sustainability Manager of WWF Italy, Stefano Brown, Sustainability Manager for IKEA Italy Retail and Luciano Canova, behavioral economics professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred the heart of Milan, as well as many journalists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, educators and creative.
Also present were some of the main protagonists of entrepreneurship Lucca, with a prominent place at the international level, with a history of success in many sectors, among others, Fabio Boschi, president of Perini Navi, Renato and Emanuele Genovese Vietina, respectively Director and Deputy Director of Lucca Comics & Games, Mauro Celli, Vice President of A. Celli Paper for It's Tissue, Pierluigi Pierallini, Founder and President of Tagetik and Santo Stefano, CEO of Fabio Perini.
Active partner of the project since its conception is Egea, editorial system of Bocconi University, which will cure the bookshop of the Festival and will animate a few appointments scheduled, involving the public in conversations with authors and presentation of freshly printed books and ideas, sharing various topics of interest.
The Lucca edition will be followed later by those of Syracuse, Civitanova Marche, Florence, Bari, Venice, Brescia. To close the 2016 route will be the Milan event, scheduled from 13 to 16ottobre in line with last year.
FESTIVAL DELLA CRESCITA – festival of Growth
Lucca, Palazzo Ducale, piazza Napoleone
2016 june 9/10
free admission