NEW EXHIBITION

AS PART OF THE MAST PHOTOGRAPHY GRANT 2025 EXHIBITION

AS PART OF THE CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OF FONDAZIONE MAST

SERIES OF MEETINGS

VITO MANCUSO'S ETHICS WORKSHOP
Seventh edition 2025

THE CONSCIENCE

After The Virtues in 2019, The Spiritual Masters in 2020, The Pandemic in 2021 and War and Peace in 2022, My Moral Principles in 2023, and The Super-Ego in 2024, Vito Mancuso returns to Bologna in the spaces of the MAST Foundation Auditorium with a series of four lectures dedicated to Conscience.

“If there is a phenomenon that more than any other arouses wonder at the mere thought of it, this is consciousness. What, really, is consciousness? Does it coincide with our brain, or is there a difference between brain, mind and consciousness? How is it possible that from brain matter springs the intangible, intelligent energy that constitutes consciousness? And how do we, ethically speaking, guard consciousness, nurture it, make it ever more alert, sharp and responsible?” – Vito Mancuso

The seventh Ethics Workshop will discuss this topic with the following speakers: astrophysicist Ersilia Vaudo of the European Space Agency in Paris (to investigate the origin of consciousness from the origin of stars), neuropsychiatrist Franco Fabbro of the University of Udine (on the brain-mind-consciousness relationship), Neva Papachristou, guiding teacher of the Association for Mindfulness Meditation A.Me.Co. (to investigate the daily practice of exercising consciousness).

The workshop-organized by Mismaonda to which the MAST Foundation has granted free use of the Auditorium-is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 20, Feb. 3, Feb. 10, and Feb. 17, and is aimed at those interested in understanding how to maintain ethics in action and thought and to investigate the theological and philosophical approach to contemporaneity.
Each meeting will always be attended by Vito Mancuso who, in the concluding appointment, will make a summary and restitution of what emerged in the previous meetings.

Tickets, curated by Mismaonda, are on sale online at Vivaticket.

Monday, January 20, 6.30 PM

Vito Mancuso meets
ERSILIA VAUDO

Ersilia Vaudo holds a degree in Astrophysics. She has been working at the European Space Agency since 1991. She is President and co-founder of the Association Il Cielo itinerante that takes “the sky where it does not reach” with a van loaded with experiments and telescopes among children in areas of educational poverty. She was the Curator of the XXII International Exhibition of the Milan Triennale on the theme Unknown Unknowns. In 2022 she was awarded the honor Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia.

Monday, February 03, 6.30 PM

Vito Mancuso meets
FRANCO FABBRO

Franco Fabbro, neuropsychiatrist, was a researcher and worked at the Division of Child Neuropsychiatry at the “Burlo Garofalo” Hospital in Trieste from 1986 to 1991; from 1991 to 2001 he was a researcher in Human Physiology and Developmental Psychology. From 2001 to 2022 he was full professor of Physiology, Child Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Psychology at the University of Udine. He spent several study periods abroad at the Department of Linguistics at McGill University in Montreal and at the Department of Neurolinguistics at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications, including more than 20 books.

Monday, February 10, 6.30 PM

Vito Mancuso meets
NEVA PAPACHRISTOU

Neva Papachristou is guiding teacher of the A.Me.Co. Association for Mindfulness Meditation, which she founded in 1987 together with Corrado Pensa. She has been studying and practicing Dharma and vipassanā meditation since 1984, with teachers from the Insight Meditation Society (Barre, USA) and the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (Cambridge, USA) in Europe and the USA. She was appointed a Dharma teacher in the Theravāda tradition by Larry Rosenberg, guiding teacher of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center. She is the author of a dissertation on Ajahn Sumedho. She is editorial director of SATI, the magazine of A.Me.Co.

Monday, February 17, 6.30 PM

VITO MANCUSO
CONCLUSIONS

Vito Mancuso, a lay theologian and philosopher, earned the three titles of theological education by obtaining a bachelor's degree in Milan, a licentiate in Naples and a doctorate in Rome with a thesis on Hegel.He has been a lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Theology at San Raffaele University in Milan and History of Theological Doctrines at the University of Padua.He is currently a lecturer at the Master of Meditation and Neuroscience at the University of Udine.He founded and directs the Ethics Workshop in Bologna.A monograph on him, “Essentials of Catholic Radicalism. An Introduction to the Lay Theology of Vito Mancuso,” Frankfurt am Main 2011. A guest on several radio and television programs, he has collaborated with Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Il Foglio. Since 2022 he has been a columnist for La Stampa.

PRENOTA IL TUO INGRESSO SU VIVATICKET

Thursday 30 January 2025
6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM

TALK AND SCREENING

WELCOME WANG BING

Fondazione MAST is pleased to have as its guest award-winning Chinese director Wang Bing who will talk about his career as a filmmaker and introduce his film Man in Black presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2023.

In conversation with Paolo Pellicano from the Cineteca di Bologna

MAN IN BLACK
Wang Bing, France, UK, USA, 2023, 60’, o.v. with subtitles

The film features 86-year-old Wang Xilin, one of China's leading composers of classical music who was the victim of a severe persecution during the Cultural Revolution. Accompanied by his symphonies, the man, with his naked body marked by scars, traces his life, the horror he experienced, showing that he is still capable of deep and sincere compassion.

In collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna

FREE ENTRANCE BY RESERVATION

Born in 1967 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, Wang Bing lives and works in Paris and China. In 1995, he attended the Beijing Film Academy. He later worked for television before embarking on a career as an independent filmmaker in 1998.
Exhibited in major museums and often awarded at festivals around the world, his works have won numerous prizes: in 2017 he was awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival for Mrs. Fang and the EYE Art & Film Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Amsterdam.
Wang Bing's works have emerged strongly in the contemporary art scene, showing in depth China's recent structural mutation. The director traces the most significant episodes in the relationship between past and present, attempting to reconstruct a shareable collective memory.

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EDUCATION

Fondazione MAST, as complementary activities to the Nursery School, organizes in collaboration with Fondazione Collegio San Carlo of Modena a series of lectures dedicated to the adult public, on the topics: “Health, Society, Education.”

In the ancient world, many philosophers referred to medicine to define the nature of their exercises geared toward self-care: these exercises also included practices related to the body (such as directions for diet and physical activity) and generally adopted a perspective in which the care of the mind (psyché, animus) was integrated with that of the body. A general principle, applicable to both physical and mental well-being, is summarized in the famous aphorism “Nothing is too much,” which lends itself well to becoming the starting point for health and self-care education activities with children and adolescents, in relation to the most current debates: nutrition education, the relationship between human health and the environment, education on the conscious and non-excessive use of screen-equipped devices, addiction prevention, etc.
In this sense, a first approach to the relationship between health and education in the contemporary world can be that of self-knowledge and one's own body in the face of the innovations that are transforming the society in which we live: from understanding the relationship between health and illness to the new conception of the body that leads us to speak of the posthuman, from the ability to communicate and learn good practices and scientific knowledge related to health to the role that technological development and artificial intelligence will play in improving our well-being and the ability of medicine to safeguard our health.

WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2024
6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM

Nothing Too Much
The perception of the limit between ancient philosophy and contemporary education

Luca Mori
Researcher in History of Philosophy - University of Pisa

WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2024
6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM

Health and disease
Between history, science and the environment

Gilberto Corbellini
Professor of History of Medicine - University of Rome “La Sapienza”

WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2024
6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM

Communicating health.
Science education and the media world

Sara Rubinelli
Professor of Health Communication - Universität Luzern

WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2025
6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM

Medicine of the future
Remote monitoring and decision making

Silvana Quaglini
Professor of Bioengineering - University of Pavia

WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH 2024
6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM

Emergence of the body
Between humanism and posthumanism
Orsola Rignani
Professor of History of Contemporary Philosophy - University of Parma

WEDNESDAY 16 APRIL 2025
6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM

Person and information
Technological revolution and the caring relationship

Paolo Benanti
Professor of Moral Theology, Bioethics and Ethics of Technologies - Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

The educational activities that the MAST Foundation offers for free every Sunday as part of the Family Tour are designed by mediators and pedagogists from the MAST Nursery School with the aim of entertaining children while stimulating creative thinking.

FAMILY TOUR DAY
MINI GRANT: WE ARE THE ARTISTS
EXHIBITION TOUR, WORKSHOPS AND ANIMATED FILM

3 – 3.30 PM Tour of the exhibition in the MAST.Galleries

ORE 15.30 – 16.30 Laboratorio in MAST.AcademyA role-playing game in which children will play the role of artists, creating a work inspired by the themes covered by the exhibition: travel, memory, the future of automobiles, work. They will then become curators, jurors and exhibitors, setting up a small display of their work that parents can visit at the end of the workshop. At the end, all children will win a prize!

4.30 – 4.50 PM Snack in the MAST.Caffetteria

Maximum number of participants in visits and workshops: 15 children ages 6 to 11 - Parents can participate in the exhibition tour, workshops and be guests in the Cafeteria during snack time.

5 PM Animated films from the MAST CineKids program in MAST.Auditorium

For more information contact the Gallery Team: workshop@fondazionemast.org - Tel. 342 7711557.

Activities are free and by reservation only. Each family can sign up a maximum of 2 children.

FAMILY TOUR DAY – 23.02.2025
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MAST CINEKIDS – A MAGICAL WORLD FOR CHILDREN

Fondazione MAST offers the public a program of animated films for children and young people inspired by the themes of the MAST Photography Grant exhibition: from migrations to cultures of the past and future, from animals to robots. Hailing from all over the world, the selected films take young viewers and their families on adventurous journeys of discovery to faraway places and unexpected eras, where they can become enthralled, excited and have fun together.

The festival is held on Family Tour Day and is open to all visitors, by reservation only.

In collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna

The program may be subject to change.

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Mast

MAST stands for MANIFATTURA di ARTI, SPERIMENTAZIONE e TECNOLOGIA (ARTS, EXPERIENCE and TECHNOLOGY).
MANIFATTURA: the industrial identity of the district
ARTI: the highest forms of creative expression
SPERIMENTAZIONE:the practice at the heart of innovation
TECNOLOGIA: the application of techniques that can improve human life

The building

The project was designed by STUDIO LABICS in ROME, which won an invited competition organized by G.D (COESIA group) in 2005, among the most renowned young Italian architecture firms. Two major pedestrian ramps, which extend from the core of the building to the main access, symbolize the close relationship between the Coesia industrial complex and the surrounding city, creating a metaphorical bridge between COESIA, the immediate city surroundings and the adjacent park. The building consists of two sections that stand next to each other, with large windows, glass features, and frames in steel. The original architectural design extends throughout the spaces occupied by the various services. A reflecting pool and landscaped garden complete the design, showing how the transformation of a former industrial space can revive an area on the outskirts, with company and community activities that make it a gathering place.

FONDAZIONE MAST 2013 – 2023
Making work a culture and culture a work

ANTEPRIMA, 2013
RA DI MARTINO
MAST.

An itinerary of images and sounds through the interior and exterior spaces of the MAST, this site specific video was realized by the artist Ra di Martino on the occasion of the opening.

director: Ra di Martino
performer viola da gamba: Rosa Helena Ippolito
cinematography: Alessandro Chiodo, Marco Martelli
sound: Enrico Ascoli
assistant director: Marcella Libonati

WHERE NEW INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OFFER A CONTEXT FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ON INNOVATION AND THE WORLD OF WORK

The Gallery is a space where industry and the world of work are described along a journey punctuated by technological exhibits, videoart installations and photographic images.

The MAST Innovation Gallery is an area for experiential learning focused on technology and innovation. Starting from some of Coesia Group’s technical solutions, the hands-on, multimedia itinerary offers visitors the opportunity to experiment and develop new knowledge.

The MAST Photo Gallery is an exhibition space that hosts temporary shows of photography on industry and work. The exhibition programme presents thematic and monographic projects taken from the MAST Collection, which includes over 5000 works, or on loan from other archives, international institutions and private collections. Each exhibition is accompanied by a programme of talks, encounters with authors and other public figures of the world of photography, films and videos, workshops for children.

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WHERE ONGOING TECHNICAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES OFFER COESIA EMPLOYEES AND STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONTINUOUS GROWTH

At the Academy, the MAST Foundation proposes a variety of educational activities on the themes of technology and innovation, addressed to young people, local community - schools and companies – and to the collaborators of Coesia Group, in partnership with public institutions and other organisations.

The Academy occupies an entire wing of the MAST building comprising 8 classrooms of various dimensions, equipped with advanced technological systems.

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Progetto Expeditions Progetto ENTER/PRISE Summer School Smart Camp

WHERE CONFERENCES, SCREENINGS AND ENCOUNTERS WITH PROMINENT FIGURES OF THE WORLD OF CULTURE CREATE THE CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVITY

The Auditorium seats 400 guests and hosts programmes of cultural events promoted by the Foundation or in collaboration with other institutions, conferences, meetings, Talks, lectures, screenings and concerts, generally related to the themes of the shows.

The acoustics was specifically designed so as to be adjustable according to the type of event. State of the art technological solutions are available for the most diverse occasions.

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WHERE A WARM ATMOSPHERE AND CULINARY EXPERIMENTATION CREATE A MEETING POINT FOR CULTURE, ART AND TECHNOLOGY

The Cafeteria is a convivial space available for guests of the Coesia Group, participants in Academy programs and visitors of the Gallery attending the various events.

This space, with a light and warm atmosphere, allows for social interaction. Three big bookcases dedicated to photography books are available for consultation.

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WHERE CHILDREN TAKE THEIR FIRST STEPS IN SOCIAL LEARNING AND BEGIN TO EXPRESS THEIR IMAGINATION

The MAST Nursery School is an educational centre offering an innovative, high quality cultural experience. Its pedagogical project is focused on experiential learning in relationship-driven environments.

The Nursery, which is open both to the children of COESIA employees and the local community, accepts children aged 3 to 36 months, divided into three classrooms. The School hosts two classrooms: 3/4-year-olds and 5-year-olds. 3/4-year-olds and 5-year-olds.

The MAST Nursery School works in partnership with Reggio Children, Cadiai Cooperative and Giannino Stoppani Cooperative.

INNOVATION AT THE NURSERY SCHOOL

The MAST Nursery School puts research and experimentation with innovative content and processes at the centre of its educational programme, by focusing on a multiplicity of cultural languages offered to the children:

The sense of beauty
The architecture and furnishings of the Nursery School, as well as the materials used in the children’s activities, are inspired by beauty as a cultural and relational element.

Books
Picture books are a crucial educational tool for fostering children’s imagination.

Play
Toys enrich children’s perceptive experiences. These objects can change their function and identity and convey new possibilities, ideas and emotions, turning into learning tools.

English Language
A bridge for creative ways of communicating, English language allows children to connect and play together by learning new words and sounds.

Ateliers
Ateliers are places where children explore, discover and experiment. The MAST Nursery School offers different ateliers such as: atelier of colour, of sound, of nature and vegetable garden.

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WHERE THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN NUTRITION BECOME AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ACTIVE AWARENESS

The Company Restaurant and the MAST.Wellness were designed as part of a unified project that integrates correct nutrition and physical activity. One of the driving values that inspire the project is the promotion of an idea of health connected to awareness, information and food culture in order to improve the quality of life.

The Company Restaurant for Coesia collaborators doesn’t simply offer meals, but it provides a place where the ingredients and their transformation into recipes respect the most recent dietary guidelines and are consistent with quality assurance indicators established by the Gruber Centre nutritionists who collaborate with MAST.

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WHERE INNOVATIVE FITNESS TECHNOLOGY MESHES WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES

The Wellness Center is dedicated to Coesia Group employees and is supplied and managed by Technogym, world leader in fitness equipment. It offers a variety of services based on a model of integrated and holistic well-being.

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