Emilio Casalini – Author of “Rifondata sulla Bellezza” (Refounded on Beauty), publisher and journalist – has come up with a particularly ‘WHY’ topic for BTO 2016!

The guest is a most unusual personage: the “mad” notary Andrea Bartoli.

At Favara in Agrigento province, they are trying to create a better piece of world, a small Community engaged in inventing new ways of thinking and living.

Farm Cultural Park is an Independent Cultural Centre: here art and culture are the noble tools employed to give the City of Favara a new identity and dimension for the future.

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Gaming seems to be the last frontier of culture, or rather, the last launching pad for projecting state of the art of culture and tourism towards an imaginative and exciting future.

But is this really the case? The gaming industry, especially that of videogames, manages to faithfully reflect the twofold reality of cultural and creative industries.

On one hand, it presents all the sexy aspects of culture while, on the other, it has to be borne in mind that the videogame industry is well structured to respond to specific market dynamics.

This item will be given over to analysing the phenomenon from these two different viewpoints, in an attempt to identify potential and tangible developments not only in the relationship between territory and gaming, but also in terms of local employment opportunities provided by the videogame industry.

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“Smart” seems to be a trendy adjective at the moment: smart buildings, smart factories, smart phones, smart cities, smart destinations, smart tourism, etcetera.

But when you take a closer look at articles, debates and projects, you discover there is a lot of talk about the technological aspects and not much more.

Does smart just mean digital, or digitalized?

Or is there more to it, maybe something more important on which to create “smartness” to ensure genuine efficacy?

We shall be discussing this topic with those who, for some time now, have been actively engaged in cities, technologies and ways to improve the life quality of city dwellers and visitors.

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