Visions and scenarios between politics, science and art: round table, art installations and seminars on the occasion of CIMA Research Foundation’s 15th Anniversary
Climate change is a complex global challenge: it is impossible and methodologically ineffective to tackle it from a single point of view. Science can observe and study phenomena, acquire and process data, provide climate scenarios, but it must confront and dialogue with different worlds: politics, economics, society, individuals. The future of our species on this planet depends on the choices not of tomorrow, but of today and unfortunately of yesterday.
The Council of the European Union at its meeting on 24 February 2022 asked the member states to adapt their civil protection systems to extreme weather events caused by climate change, in terms of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.
Our Civil Protection in 1992 added prevention and forecasting to relief. Today, now recognised as an international reference model, the National Civil Protection is faced with a further challenge dictated by climate change: to promote, coordinate and anticipate adaptation actions, at the instigation of Europe, in order to respond to society and especially to the new generations.
As CIMA Foundation, our historical scientific mission is to observe in order to predict and prevent climate risks: but we believe it is now time to plan in order to act.
We have chosen to celebrate our 15th Anniversary, which falls on 5 September 2022, with a multidisciplinary event divided into three modules, combining science with creativity, art, innovation, planning, governance, which are the basis of a 360° vision of the future:
- a round table discussion on a global-local scale, preceded by suggestions and stimuli from our researchers, with representatives of the political world at local, national, European and international level, as well as exponents from the worlds of science, operational weather services, development cooperation, civil protection and communication;
- an ‘im-possible’ dialogue between science and art with art installations and the inauguration of works interpreting the meaning of climate change, not only as a historical change of living conditions on this planet, but as a profound change of philosophical perspectives on the future;
- a series of seminars held by Cima Foundation lecturers and researchers on the relationship between climate and civil protection, to which science always offers new answers and new questions.
CIMA Glocal Forum: an unconventional round table to address the issue of climate and civil protection with an open vision and a deep listening to the different languages that generate science, knowledge, but above all awareness.
The event will take place according to the following programme, register to attend in presence or follow the live streaming on cimafoundation.org and on YouTube.
H 10.45 Opening
Institutional greetings
FEDERICO DELFINO
Rector University of Genoa
PIERANGELO OLIVIERI
President of the Province of Savona
H 11.00 Round Table
Introductory speech
LUCA FERRARIS
President CIMA Foundation
University of Genoa
Moderator
DONATELLA BIANCHI
RAI journalist
President Cinque Terre National Park
H 11.10 CIMA Glocal Forum From the universal to the particular: World and Europe
CIMA-talk
LAURA POLETTI and GUSTAVO NAUMANN
Researchers CIMA Foundation
MARINA SERENI
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
MARCO TOSCANO RIVALTA
UNDRR Director Asia Pacific Office
ALESSANDRA ZAMPIERI
Head of Disaster Risk Management Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
LUCA MAESTRIPIERI
Director of AICS Italian Agency for Development Cooperation
H 12.00 CIMA Glocal Forum From the particular to the universal: Territories and Italy
CIMA-talk
FRANCESCA MUNEROL and FILIPPO FRASCHINI
Researchers CIMA Foundation
MARCO RUSSO
Mayor of Savona
GIACOMO RAUL GIAMPEDRONE
Councillor for Civil Protection, Liguria Region
CARLO CACCIAMANI
Director, ItaliaMeteo Agency
MANUELA GAGLIARDI
Secretary Environment Territory and Public Works Commission, Chamber of Deputies
FABRIZIO CURCIO
Head of Civil Protection Department
H 13.15 “Im-possible” dialogue between science and art
FRANCO SICCARDI
President Emeritus CIMA Foundation
BEPPE SCHIAVETTA
Artist
ANTONELLO PROVENZALE
Director, CNR Institute of Geosciences and Georisources
LORENZO VERDERAME
Associate Professor of Assyriology, La Sapienza University Rome
H 14.00 Inauguration of the work “Corrotte macerie” by artist Beppe Schiavetta
Buffet lunch
H 15.00 Scientific seminars by CIMA Research Foundation researchers
Moderator
FABIO CASTELLI
Full Professor of Hydrology and Hydraulic Constructions, University of Florence
Seminars by
FRANCESCO AVANZI
VINCENZO MAZZARELLA
MARINA MORANDO
ANDREA TRUCCHIA
H 17.00 End of proceedings