Leonardo at IULM: events, lectures and workshops

The rich program of activities to be held within the Leonardo at IULM exhibition,  in the Contemporary Exhibition Hall, is kicking off.

The cultural schedule offers a series of appointments that bring current themes and languages into dialogue with the legacy of Leonardo da Vinci's thought.

All events are by reservation only, subject to availability.

Leonardo Lab

• Greek and Latin workshop for curious citizens

  with Cristina Dell'Acqua, lecturer and writer
  6 lectures: Feb. 9, 16, 23 - March 2, 9, 23, from 2:45 to 5:45 p.m.
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  A series of workshops dedicated to those who wish to discover or rediscover Greek and Latin as living languages still capable of speaking to the present. Through guided readings, etymologies, myths and classical texts, the workshop offers a journey into the words that ground our way of thinking and feeling. Not an abstract learning of rules, but a cultural experience that connects ancient and contemporary, in ideal dialogue with the figure of Leonardo da Vinci.

• Artificial Intelligence in practice: generative AI workshop for everyday life

  with Guido Di Fraia, Full Professor, Faculty of Communication, IULM University
  17, Feb. 24-March 3, 4-7 p.m.
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  An experiential workshop dedicated to the conscious use of generative artificial intelligence in everyday life. The course consists of three meetings and adopts a Project-Based Learning methodology, with a strong practical orientation. Participants will experience the use of AIs for concrete activities-from writing texts to creating images and videos, from personal organization to travel planning-while pairing the practice with a critical and reflective framework.
  To participate, the use of one's own PC is required; charging stations will be available
  
  

• Drawing with Leonardo

  Drawing workshop curated by Leila Fteita, set designer
  Feb. 18 and 25, 3 to 6 p.m.
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  A workshop dedicated to drawing as a tool for observation, investigation and representation of reality, in dialogue with Leonardo da Vinci's practice and method. The activity invites participants to experience the graphic sign as a form of knowledge and expression, recovering the value of gesture and direct experience.
  
  

Leonardo Live

• Architectures of Ingenuity: from Leonardo's drawings to the sound cathedrals of Bach and Glass

  milan String Quartet concert
  Feb. 19, 6 p.m.00
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  Music as a space of resonance and interpretation, capable of evoking the harmony, rigor and creative tension that run through Leonardo's work and thought, in compositions by Haydn, Bach, Zimmer, Richter, Vivaldi, Williams, Barber, Glass, Hisaishi.
  
  

Leonardo Talk

• Philology of the gaze: visual translation and classical sources in Leonardo's workshop

  with Giovanna Rocca, Full Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Interpretation and Translation, IULM University
  Feb. 10, 6 p.m.
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  Even the study of an author like Leonardo can reveal novelties. In constructing his figure of the "homo of letters," Leonardo encounters Valturio's De re militari in the vernacular translation and, building on this reading, makes some interesting drawings of tools that the ancients used in sacrificial rites. Valturio's description is full of quotations from classical authors, including Pompey Festus (AD II) and his Epitome made by Paul the Deacon as a gift for Charlemagne. These drawings in Manuscript B are of the greatest interest in observing how the graphic form elaborated by Leonardo corresponds or does not correspond to the descriptions of the classics and surviving iconographic evidence. An interesting network of relationships thus emerges, linking the classical Latin world to Renaissance Italy
  

• "He never left drawing et fare di rilievo, as things that went to him to his imagination more than any other": Leonardo in the Milan Sforzesca

  with Lorenzo Finocchi Ghersi, Full Professor, Faculty of Arts, Fashion and Tourism, IULM University
  Feb. 23, 6 p.m.
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  Insight into Leonardo's Florentine life and training, the central role of drawing as a tool for the investigation of nature and scientific experimentation. Particular attention is devoted to the Milanese period, during which the stimulus grew in Leonardo to develop innovative solutions interweaving art, engineering and science

• "Innovation is not the Mona Lisa. But Leonardo's entire life."

  Dialogue with Daniele Manca, journalist, deputy editor of Corriere della Sera and Gianmario Verona, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Human Technopole Foundation
  February 26, 6 p.m.
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  A meeting on the volume A casa di Einstein, a guide inside the wonderful world of innovators, a journey between science and culture together with Leonardo da Vinci and the other great protagonists of modern thought. Because, as the two authors often repeat, "One is not born an innovator. Innovators one becomes."

• Remaking the World. The ages of the avant-garde. "No word characterizes contemporary art more than avant-garde."

  with Vincenzo Trione, Full Professor, Faculty of Arts, Fashion and Tourism, IULM University
  March 2, 6 p.m.
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  Dialogue on Leonardo's vision of change and experimentation in relation to the volume Rifare il mondo. Le età dell'avanguardia, dedicated to the concept of the avant-garde and innovation in art.
  Event in collaboration with the PhD in Visual and Media Studies

• Immaginator Mundi: The role of visionaries, from Leonardo to Arthur C. Clarke

  with Bill Emmott, former editor of "The Economist," Visiting Professor IULM University
  March 5, 12:00 noon
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  The meeting is dedicated to the evolution of the idea of the future, relating Leonardo da Vinci to figures such as H.G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke. A dialogue between different eras to reflect on the concrete value of imagination and visions of the future as tools for transforming the present.

• Creating robots between nature and science

  with Luisa Damiano, Full Professor, Faculty of Arts, Fashion and Tourism, IULM University
  March 6, 5:00 p.m.
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  Inspired by the Leonardian spirit, the event invites us to look at robotics as a generative space, where the encounter between bodies, movements and ecologies gives rise to new forms of cognition. The meeting will integrate the exploration of models, examples and imaginaries of contemporary robotics.
  Event organized in collaboration with CRiSiCo - Center for Research on Complex Systems
  
  

• From Leonardo to Galileo, the birth of science

  Riccardo Manzotti, Full Professor, Faculty of Communication, IULM University interviews Roberto Mercadini, actor and writer
  March 10, 5:30 pm
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  As Leonardo wrote, "Wisdom is the child of experience. [...] The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal way whence the common sense can most abundantly and magnificently contemplate the infinite works of nature." Roberto Mercadini and Riccardo Manzotti converse about the relationship between human being and nature, between self and world, starting with Leonardo's gaze that discovers nature with infinite wonder. Playing with the three works on display - representing the gaze (the light), the action (the winch) and the relationship (the flight) - the actor and the philosopher tell how we went from experience to scientific knowledge, to the present day.