Artisan knowledge and Made in Italy have been for years the anchor of Italian economy: an enormous know-how that the whole world envied and continues to envies. A wealth of knowledge that many people tried to copy but every time…
Conceria dell'Orologio lives again. Since the beginning of 2017, in fact, casaconcia has been opened. It is a new cultural and exhibition space, owned by the Genuine Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium, that aims to propose initiatives of promotion…
A place that doesn't exist anymore, at least officially, but it continues to live and carry on memories, pain and suffering. In other words the feelings of patients during their treatment in the Volterra Asylum . It was a…
This year on "The Memory Train" there have been five cases of students coming out with their homosexuality . Teachers told me about it and they were very happy. During the trip, coming and going, in the dining car…
This might sound weird but the revolution in school has already started. In Turin a new school will arise: "The Possible School", a primary school that will be different from the others: in this institute children will not…
What kind of experience has been Craft the Leather 2016 for you?
Giulia Andreoli
"Veg-tanned leather was for me a true discovery; before this workshop i didn’t know much about the product and the manufacturing process.
Thanks to the…
There's a small town in the province of Turin where time doesn't seem to be passed. We're talking about Alpignano, 16,000 inhabitants, where we can admire the world's oldest typographical factory. A workplace that takes over a unique manufacturing…
Social interactions, common interest and sense of neighborhood are concepts that we’re slowly loosing because of the development of digital technologies. All of us have got less and less time to talk face-to-face with friends or to have…
A town inside the town. The left Arno riverbank, usually called Diladdarno – name not easy to replace with the more common and up-to-date “Oltrarno” for Florentine people – is the forge where the main manufacturing activities developed…
