Italian Innovators

Italian Innovators

By Luca CottiniSociety & Culture
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Italian Innovators episodes

  • S2 E30 - On Racing, Competition, and Italian Cars (Interview)
    A conversation with Fred Simeone (Neurosurgeon and owner of the world’s #1 car collection, The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia)
    * From Personal Passion to a Top Collection. The Creation of the World’s #1 Automobile Museum.
    * The Life of a Sports Car. Racing, Competition, and Entrepreneurship
    * Preserving Memory, Communicating to Future Generations
    * The Extraordinary Automobile Culture of Italy
    * The Italian Motor Valley: Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    31 min
  • S2 E29 - Ferruccio Lamborghini
    The Spirit of Competition.
    * The Italian Obsession for Distinction. From Renaissance Courts to Automobiles
    * The Car as Reflection of an Inimitable Personality
    * From Tractors to Sports Cars. The Challenge to Ferrari
    * The Pursuit of Excellence. Competition, Malleability, and Experimentation
    * Speed, Beauty, and Profligacy. Pursuit of Eternity

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    18 min
  • S2 E28 - The Art & Business of Makeup (Interview)
    A conversation with Clio Zammatteo (Co-Founder of ClioMakeUp, Entrepreneur, Author, Blogger, Influencer, TV Presenter)
    * From the Art of Painting to the Visual Language of Makeup
    * Makeup as a Multi-Media Platform: YouTube, Social Media, TV, Publishing
    * From Ephemerality to Duration. The Culture of the Makeup Business
    * Mastery, Authorship, and Creativity. A Recipe for Innovation and Success
    * An Italian Woman in NYC. On Femininity and Entrepreneurship


    For additional video contents visit the YouTube channel of the show. For more information about the project, please visit the official webpage at www.italianinnovators.com
    31 min
  • S2 E27 - Ennio Morricone
    The Craft of Sound.
    * A Tribute to Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona
    * The Birthplace of the Violin. Cremona, Monteverdi, Amati and Stradivari
    * The Master as Innovator. Il Maestro Morricone
    * From his Wife to His Master (Petrassi) and Directors (Leone and Tornatore)
    * Music as Craft, Relationship, and Space


    For additional video contents visit the YouTube channel of the show. For more information about the project, please visit the official webpage at www.italianinnovators.com
    25 min
  • S2 E26 - Italy/USA. A Long Story of Cultural Exchange (Interview)
    A conversation with Guido Bonsaver (Professor of Italian Modern Culture at Oxford University)
    * Italians in the US during the Revolutionary War
    * Americans in Italy and Italians in the US during the 19th Century
    * The Great Italian Emigration. Discriminating Italians, Idealizing Italy
    * Taylorism and Wilsonism in Italy in the early 20th Century
    * The Post-WWII Americanization of Italian Society

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    22 min
  • S2 E25 - Margherita Guarducci
    The Italian Female Archaeologist Who Located the Tomb of Saint Peter.
    * How Are Italian Universities Ranked in the World?
    * The Italian Academic Model and The Primacy of Rome in Classical Studies
    * Archaeology as a Model of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
    * Decrypting Ancient Codes as a Key to Understanding the Past and our Future
    * The Story of Saint Peter’s Tomb under the Vatican Basilica
    * Locating the Site and Finding the Bones. The Process of Discovery.

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    21 min
  • S2 E24 - Innovating Tradition. The Business of Opera (Interview)
    A conversation with Maestro Corrado Rovaris, Music Director at OperaPhiladelphia
    * From La Scala to Opera Philadelphia. The Journey of a Maestro
    * The Global Success of Opera as an Italian Trademark
    * A Complex Synthesis of Languages. How is an Opera Born?
    * The Complex Business of Operatic Productions
    * Innovating Tradition. Opera Today

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    24 min
  • S2 E23 - Massimo Bottura
    On the Italian Art of Cooking.
    * A Philosophical History of Italian Cuisine
    * Sapere/sapere: to Know is to Savor
    * Cooking as Art and Taste as Knowledge
    * Re-inventing a Repertoire: Tradition & Innovation in a Top Chef’s Work
    * The Imaginative Use of Leftovers: About Limit & Creativity

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    21 min
  • S2 E22 - The Design of Knowledge. On Italian Culture, Innovation & the New Media (Interview)
    A conversation with Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard University, Piaggio Fast Forward)
    * On the Digital Humanities and the MetaLAB project
    * Technology, Internet, & Culture
    * New Media & the Humanities. From the Printing Press to the World Wide Web
    * The Design of Knowledge. The Intellectual as Knowledge Designer
    * Literary Imagination and the Design of Objects
    * Design, Design Thinking, & Innovation
    * About Academia & Entrepreneurship
    * The Italian Synthesis of Culture, Art and Industry

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    1 hr 2 min
  • S2 E21 - Corradino D'Ascanio
    The designer of Vespa and the inventor of helicopters
    * The myth of Vespa. From cinema to popular culture
    * The story of Piaggio. From airplanes to scooters
    * How the Vespa came about. And the Lambretta too.
    * The Italian invention of the helicopter

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    16 min

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The Italian Innovators podcast tells the stories of great modern Italians in the fields of fashion, technology, business, music and design from the 19th century to the present. Episodes are 15-20…