then I am Belgian Flemish and so
I will speak to you in Italian
then twenty years ago I entered
that green building you see here and there
it houses the museum of technologies
Jurassic museum of revolved
technology and if you know all that the
Jurassic is a prehistoric era in which
the world was populated by dinosaurs
no, however, this museum does not speak of
dinosaurs and does not even speak of
talk technology makes it see and read
a sculpture of a pope inside
the eye of a needle to be looked at with a
microscope a bat stuck in
a block of lead and therefore invisible
the horn of an English woman and so it is
difficult to explain the meaning of all this
and I do not even want to try and stay
fact that when you leave this museum
from the dark from this museum and reentered in the
reverberating light of the city of los
angeles
you know and feel that the world must be one
somewhat more complicated than the one
cars come around the road
traffic lights the museum of put in one
state of wonder that often also one
state of doubt
I then learned that someone wrote a
own book on this museum and it
calls a worthy heir to the
of the cabinets of the wonders of the
five hundred and even the five hundred
all was a little difficult to explain
sense of everything that was seen all 500
news the news that came with
the discoveries in the Americas and spread of
much the collective imagination of the
people created a general confusion
that has governed Europe for more than 100
years and these rooms were born
of wonders
the Umbrian rooms where they gathered
just about the most bizarre things
true and even invented and while so many of
these collections fed taste
baroque for the extraordinary the
huge others became instruments
for the study in Italy and for this I
like to talk about everything in Italian
truly unified between leonardo and
galileo the bolognese ulisse olive andry
he had a very specific purpose with one of his own
collection wanted to systematize
and recompose knowledge through one
microcosmic reconstruction of the
macrocosm launched precisely writes with
a certain pride today in mine
microcosm you can see the number
of 18,000 different things
truly exemplars of the species
produced by the great God in fact
for a long time bring everything back to one
the only creator was the only way to give
some coherence this causes marvels
but slowly the wonders had to
leave room for doubts about how it was
The world in the bible has been described
in the classical texts androvandi he saw the
need to change and you were with the
know his first job was of
divide its 18 apple trees 18 thousand
specimens in naturalia and artificialia
so what is done by man no thing
I will give nature and things done by man
and this may seem trivial but
at the time I was an era was an approach
a reality radically new
approach that then brought to thought
modern in which the division between nature and
man and then became the division between da
a part of the sciences and on the other side
the art the region
the bottle , politics and so on
I am a scientist for the world alone
a climatologist and it always seemed useful to me
see today’s climate changes
in the context of changes occurred in
all the history of the earth a story
four and a half billion years long
but let’s look at only the last 600 million
of years since life has migrated
from the ocean to the mainland and from
fossil finds we know there are
you have these great mass extinctions
caused by natural cataclysms
no meteor impact activities
volcanic and then climate change
that these were the consequence
boulder extensions these layers of
fossils then divide slabs the
inter and geological prehistory the
Jurassic remembered the Jurassic
it went from 200 to 150 million years ago
the first and humble have entered the scene
only 7 million years ago they were sapiens
it is barely resides on this quadrant
so I make a clock set e
I leave 200,000 years ago when sapiens
enters the scene then there are the different
to human evolutions that cognitive
then the agricultural and industrial one
and here we are immediately arrived at the last
200 years modern ones such as so-called
illuminated where we find music and one
that amount of other things I owe
read of the Hon
we are a billion to start with
there is a noise of steam engines
machines that allow machines to be made
even larger colonialism the
fortwo mind of man
and the first looting of the planet is there
social revolts bombs and fertilizer
the great war and the explosion
demographic worldwide
we are two billion years arrive
thirty with new york competing with
London and Berlin
the first deployment of weapons by
mass destruction followed by the
universal declaration of rights
man
oil is material for the
plastic fuel for cars
cita tentacolari we are 3 billion there
supply and demand supply and demand
mass of glorious films in the sixties
an explosion of creativity
the company of the disposable and throws the first one
plastic heart transplant yet
plastic everywhere pesticides e
genetically modified organisms
the freon and the ozone hole on travel
in space the personal computer pac
man and supermario dinners and mtv chernobyl
east and west north and south china in the middle
africa forgotten the internet markets
financial
a search for sustainability mines
open biodiversity burned forests
global networks global warming the
global terrorism 20 billion poles
the steel car march between head plants
virtual life we are more than 7 billion
and of the inequality between this woman
it’s this here
first conflict after emergency conflict
After emergency disaster after the disaster
war after no excuse maybe
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it may perhaps be exaggerated a little but it is clear
that our doing on this planet
now equal to that of gods
great natural cataclysms of the
prehistory
now we are the cause of the
climate change and even without
the use of atomic bombs we do
disappear the special evils and vegetables a
a rhythm equal to those great extinctions
mass and for this it does a lot without
call the anthropocene our times
that is, the other’s era placed man in an era
that could be remembered among a
million years from a layer of fossils
of various mixed creatures with cement and
radioactivity of plastic
Well you know maybe I have not exaggerated more than
so much because everything he did
browse is located on the internet
not on youtube the many philosophers scholars
of our culture have called
just youtube a wonder camerin of the
our era
in fact, youtube shows everything
reflects the chaos in which confusion
we find ourselves not a real worthy mess
of the sixteenth century and perhaps we find ourselves
still in the same mess and not
we have never been as modern as he says
someone
obviously there are differences between
the 500 and now, while then the news
they came from nothing
no from unknown continents now
they are designed by an apparatus
technological science for consumption
mass
and while then the news was of the
true wonders
now the news does not surprise anymore
because they supplant one after the other e
we are used now that everything is
possible
lack of wonder means
lack of doubt and critical sense on
how we operate on this on this
planet and we get stuck in this
consumerist model that has bet by
any kind of value between not that of
money that flattens our culture
human that can also lead to
disappearance of our civilization
otherwise another mass extinction
war I can not change the world but
I believe the world can be changed
and for this I created a room of the
wonders
you remember museum turned
technology
well, I founded a center like this in
technology a museum that speaks
of the anthropocene and also some
technologies for example shows
a work that highlights a lamp a
glow with a photo printed with
atmospheric pollution itself that the
photo shows a pair of glasses and here
even here buildings explain all that
that you see but now I want to try
these glasses are clear with these
here a very simple object is not done
from plastic and glass
but here he wins something written that now
I can not see why it takes
no glasses but I know it’s written
made in china and this explodes this
object is in a thing much more
complex will have been drawn more in
Italy but I see the Chinese workers who
they produced it by polluting
I see the air and the waters of their city
the wars in the Middle East for the
petroleum raw material for plastics
then I see the ships that go from the middle
east in China with oil and then
those that go from chen to italy with
the glasses and then because done unit in
China because labor costs less
yes, then we are the ones we earn
too much they are earning too much
little and see everything that makes this
object one thing a wonder that not
I can more easily vote away instead of me
comes to put it on a pedestal
in short, this museum maps wants to be
a car to look with purpose
to rediscover wonder and doubt
to show how everything is a bit more
complex compared to what it does to us
to believe
the consumerist model wants to settle
this our chaos going offers
division of modernity between nature and
society between science and artifacts value e
doing so hopes to discover new ones
ways of seeing and experiencing the world of ways
that can be the basis for
face our big problems
collective
I want to end with a further of the
thought it is clear that only one museum
it is likely to have little impact no
especially that is located in laveno
mombello here near another year
but what would happen if there were
a network of such museos was a network
capillary a bit like our churches
St. Peter in Rome was not enough for us
to spread the church’s doctrine
no churches and churches were wanted
pievi everywhere and not enough tits only
It takes all of us to spread ideas
those of then besides the but we are
even thinking of a kind of matrix already
and I was talking to mine about this
friend
thanks for this i was talking with the
my friend as my friend fabio
a few months ago and he said well
talk with francesco and francesco p
father francesco even pope french
but you mean to use churches as museums
in fact I think it’s good for everyone
enter a church with light
reverberant of the city in for
spaces a dark and silent where the
frenzy stops but beyond being able to
greet the god father his saints if
you want or reflect on life after the
death because you can not stop in front of you
a work that is wonderful for us
reflect on today’s life because it does not
dedicate an altar to our home
common as the Pope Francis himself
call this insoluble intertwining between
nature and man
thank you
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