PLANTS & US is part of the Italian project VISIONI Ecoway of Lyfe, which develops five themes starting from a new idea of ecology in the perspective of Deep History. In the project, 38 Italian protagonists, including anthropologists, architects, artists, nutritionists, scientists, cooks and others, talk about another way of living in a series of videos shot all over Italy. The series was conceived by the director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Angelo Gioè, and curated by arch. Maurizio Corrado.
The event is co-organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in Beirut and Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts – University of Balamand (ALBA-UOB).
VISIONI because in the Anthropocene it is vital to start again to imagine not only other possible worlds, but above all new systems to survive in the only world we know.
VISIONI as imagination, project, utopia, desire.
VISIONI explores possible Italian ways to ecology, where beauty is constantly taken into account. The word lyfe refers to the new concept of life proposed by the scientific community to broaden the concept of life, opening new perspectives of thought.
VISIONI presents an idea of ecology that has as travel companions no longer sacrifice, but beauty, pleasure, well-being and the development of life in constant relationship with other different forms of life and with the environment.