Italian Innovators

Italian Innovators

By Luca CottiniSociety & Culture
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Italian Innovators episodes

  • S2 E20 - On the Italian Entertainment Industry (Interview)
    A conversation with Armando Fumagalli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)
    * The semiotics of screenwriting
    * Literature and cinema: translations vs adaptations
    * Italian TV productions and the global market
    * Italians in the American entertainment industry

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    29 min
  • S2 E19 - Gae Aulenti
    The Female star of Italian Architecture
    * Italy as a cultural space
    * A woman among the giants of Italian architecture
    * The social and cultural endeavor of building
    * Architecture as relationship

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    23 min
  • S2 E18 - What is Italian Design? (Interview)
    A conversation with Mauro Porcini, SVP & Chief Design Officer at PepsiCo
    * What makes design Italian?
    * What is design thinking?
    * Design, innovation and aesthetics
    * Design as a polyglot knowledge

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    26 min
  • S2 E17 - Michele Ferrero
    Chocolate dialogues. How Nutella turned from a sweet spread into a cultural icon.
    * A success story rooted in a constant dialogue, with the land (Langhe) and the customers (Valeria)
    * Innovation is about observation. Mon Cheri, Nutella, Kinder eggs
    * Sharing value to create values. The Ferrero philosophy

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    15 min
  • S2 E16 - Investing in Italy. Investing in Italian (Interview)
    A conversation with multilingual American attorney Joseph Gulino (DRRT)
    * Why should an American invest in Italy
    * The Italian system: its limits, quirks, and distinctive elements
    * Learning Italian as a way to cultivate a different approach to business
    * Americans in Italy, Italians in the US

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    16 min
  • S2 E15 - Armando Cimolai
    The Italian mastery of matter. Why Italy, yes Italy, is a global leader in the export of steel.
    * A cultural history of matter (rubber, asphalt, oil)
    * Steel and the evolution of skyscrapers
    * The Italian steel company behind the Vessel (NYC)
    * The craft and beauty of steel. Bridges, Stadiums, Towers.

    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 E14 - On Fashion, Cinema, and Costume Design (Interview)
    A conversation with fashion scholar Eugenia Paulicelli (Queens College, CUNY)
    * Why fashion and cinema need each other
    * What is the difference between a tailor and a costume designer?
    * Fashion and culture, fashion as culture

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    29 min
  • S2 E13 - Milena Canonero
    The costume designer of Hollywood. About fashion, cinema, and the Italian sartorial imagination.
    * A presentation of season 2 of Italian Innovators
    * The Italian lady with 4 Academy Awards
    * What Stanley Kubrik, Hugh Hudson, Sophia Coppola, and Wes Anderson owe to Milena Canonero
    * The Italian touch in tailoring dresses to characters
    * Costume design at the intersection of fashion and cinema

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    19 min
  • S1 E12 - Leopoldo & Vittorio Alinari
    The founding fathers of Italian photography. How Florence became the city of photographers, and why its photographic archives matter.
    * Florence, the capital of Italy and global photography
    * How 19th century photography shaped a new visual knowledge of the world
    * Leopoldo Alinari. The survey of monuments and the new languages of painting.
    * Kodak and Vittorio Alinari. The vision of the instant and the ubiquity of images.
    * The Alinari archives and our photographic memory

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    20 min
  • S1 E11 - Camillo & Adriano Olivetti
    The origins of computing. The Avant-garde of design. What does an Italian Typewriter have to do with your Mac?
    * An American Journey. Camillo Olivetti, Thomas Edison, and Leland Stanford
    * From the writing type to a human type. About typewriting and typography
    * From Ivrea to the world. Olivetti’s impact on architecture, design, and technology
    * Olivetti and Steve Jobs. What Apple owes to an Italian visionary

    For additional video contents and more information about the project, please visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com
    21 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…