GEA - Save our mother
A complicity between art, science and politics
to save the mother of the mothers.
A project by
Pietro Franesi (Art Project)
& Pietro Laureano (Scientific project)
GEA
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Pietro Franesi - Art Project
The project is based on complicity between art, science and politics to save the mother of
the mothers. Will be selected 9 social-cultural-environmental emergencies of the planet and
will be dedicated to each one an artistic intenational event and an international scientifi c conference
that improves good practice to solve the problem.
The main thread of the project is to pass from complaint to tangible actions, to stimulate
the governments to make decisions and people to change lifestyle.
During the Biennale will be presented a big installation on the theme, made by the vietnamese artist w9.
Then 9 installations for 9 emergencies will be made by 9 international artists.
2009
THE CLIMATE- Emergency: Glaciers melting
Location: the Greenland Iceberg - Technique: Installation - Artist: Damien Hirst
2010
THE POPULATION-Emergency: population in metropolis
Location: Tokyo - Photography - Artist: David LaChapelle
2010
BIODIVERSITY - Emergency: Endangered Tribes
Location: Peruvian islands - Technique: Sculpture - Artist: Ron Mueck
2011
DESERTIFICATION - Emergency: Desertifi cation - Location: Great Victoria Desert Australia
Technique: Sculpture - Artists: Mark Anderson (England), Daniel Belcher (USA),
Damon Farmer (USA), Lars Borst (Netherlands), Vladimir Kuraev (Russia),
Pavel Zadunyak (Russia) Alexey Dyakov (Russia) and Radovan Zivney (Czech Republic),
Richard Varano (USA).
2011
WATER SCARSITY- Emergency: Ganges
Location: Calcutta Technique: Painting on the water - Artist: Regine Ramseier Weber
2012
DEFORESTATION - Emergency: Amazon
Location: Amazon Delta - Technique: Installation - Artist: w9
2012
ENERGY - Emergecy: Polynesian atolls
Location : Bora-Bora - Technique: Sculptures - Artist: Caspar Hanselmann
2013
FISHING INDUSTRY - Emergency: Tuna
Location: Favignana Island - Technique: photography - Artist: Vanessa Beecroft
GEA Save our mother
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2013
URBAN - Emergency: New York
Location: New York Technique: Installation - Artist: Maurizio Cattelan
Pietro Laureano - Scientifi c Project
Confronting ecosystem emergencies: the innovative force of tradition
Climate change, ecosystem collapse, cataclysms, the collapse of civilizations are conditions
that humanity has had to face numerous times.
However, it is the fi rst time that global climate change is ascribable to human activities.
In the past the conditions of shortage and climate variability imposed a deep insight in managing
resources and the invention of cheap technologies and processes that were not destructive.
In several climates and environments, incredibly tenacious cultures were able to use materials
available locally and renewable resources.
They used solar energy and the strength of nature: thermal insulation for protection from cold and heat;
hydrodynamics for water captation and distribution; the biological knowledge for the creation of humus
and cultivable soil. They applied the principles of wind, shadow and humidity to start interaction processes
and amplify useful dynamics. This is how knowledge and culture were born.
Art, poetry, singing, beauty are fundamental components of this process.
Societies who promoted harmony with their environment fl ourished and created works, landscapes
and ecosystems that make up the cultural heritage of humanity. The creation and conservation of this
heritage is possible thanks to the millenary complexity of knowledge and techniques that the United
Nations have denominated Traditional and Local Knowledge, the historical knowledge of humanity.
It is through Traditional Knowledge that natural resources are used correctly: water, soil, energy.
The architectural and environmental harmony is determined, the symbiosis between spatial
organization techniques, traditions, social customs and spiritual values: the fusion between
functionality and beauty. Today ecosystem collapse is a menace.
Traditional Knowledge shows how to intervene in perfect agreement with the environment,
highlighting its potential without exhausting it. It is the bearer of techniques that have developed
using material and objects from everyday life and are disseminated at a local level.
It is fragile and subjected to the attack of undergoing unwise transformations,
it constitutes a marginal value in the dominant way of thinking but it is the means of subsistence
for two thirds of humanity and constitutes an ingenious reserve of solutions and devices
for producing energy, recycling resources and keeping microclimate under control.
Using traditional Knowledge does not mean directly reapplying the techniques from the past
but understanding the logical reasoning underlying the knowledge system and reapplying
it in a creative way: today’s appropriate innovations constitute tomorrow’s traditional knowledge.
The global crisis is the occasion for developing a new sustainable paradigm.
Nine emergencies illustrated by scientists and disseminated through artistic installation create,
through the alliance between science and art, nature and culture, knowledge and public,
a pathwayon a global scale that demonstrates that we can save the planet.
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Conference
The planet can be saved:
the good praxis to be followed from the governments and the people.
Al Gore
Hugo Chavez
Gary Hamel
Guy F Midgley
Ahmed Djoghlaf
Luc Nacadja
R K Pachauri
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Saifuddin Soz
David Leonard Downie
Yang Jiechi
Pietro Laureano
Mr. Sha Zukang
Conference Hall NYBA
Friday, July 18th, 2008, at 6 pm.
Workshop
Climate – Glaciers disappearance
Corinne Wacker (Suisse) – University of Beria, Zurich.
Contrasting glaciers disappearance.
The innovative use of a traditional technique in Tibet enables the creation of glaciers
Luca Mercalli (Italy) – President of Società Meteorologica Italiana, Founder of the review NIMBUS
(Italian review of meteorology and climate) Climatologist
Climate, waters and glaciers in the Alps
GEA Save our mother
A complicity between art, science and politics
to save the mother of the mothers.
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Population and poverty
Uriel Safriel (Israel)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept. of Evolution Systematics and Ecology (ESE), Israel
Demographic growth and poverty
Biodiversity and cultural diversity
Carmela Vaccaro (Italy) Ferrara University
Dimitra Rapti Caputo (Greece) Ferrara University
Collapse of the bio-cultural landascape: the Po valley
Desertifi cation
Ismail Abd al Galil Hussein (Egypt) – Desert research Centre, Cairo.
Desertifi cation in the Mediterranean countries
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El Faiz Mohammed (Marocco)- Historien des Jardins, Universitè Cadi Ayyad Marrakech.
Ancient hydraulic techniques in the arab- muslim civilization
Zafar Adeel (Pakistan) – Director UNU international Network on Water health and environment,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Appropriate management of dry lands
Water
Larry W. Mays (USA) – Professor Civil and environmental engineering, Arizona State University.
Formerly director of the center for research in water resources at University of Texas at Austin.
Hydraulic crisis and ecosystem management
Sunita Narain (India) CSE Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi
Ancient water captation techniques in India
Deforestation
John Parrotta (USA) – Coordinator IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge.
USDA Forest Service, research & development, Washington Offi ce
Forests, medical and biological heritage
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Energy and small scale society
Elias j Mujica (Perù) – Deputy coordinator, Consorzio para el Desarrollo Sostenibile
de la corregion Andina (CONDESAN), International Potatoe Centre, Lima.
Appropriate solutions of precolombian ancient civilizations
Fishing and water ecosystems
Saùl Alcàntara Onofre (Messico) – Diseno y Conservacion de Paisajes y Jardines.
Floating gardens
Kazumi Yamaoka (Japan) – Chief of Laboratory
National Institute for Rural Engineering Japan, NIRE.
Innovative protection of coastal systems with traditional techniques
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Urbanization and risks
Hans Gunter Brauch (Germany) – Senior academic Consultant CASA Fellow,
UNU EHS Institute for Environment and Human Security
Urban crises, migration and lack of security
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GEA Save our mother
A complicity between art, science and politics
to save the mother of the mothers.
