Workshops of knowledge: commerce and culture the protagonists

Art & Culture

14 July 2017

Art & Culture

Workshops of knowledge: commerce and culture the protagonists

My first experience with the “Botteghe del Sapere” (“Workshops of knowledge”) at the Knowledge Festival was really very positive, I really liked the idea of ??transforming twenty-two commercial establishments in the historic centre of Udine into places in which two apparently distant worlds like culture and commerce could meet. What I experienced was a well-tested and functioning synergy between the university and the city’s commercial fabric which has given rise to culturally exciting moments of comparison. It is impossible not to mention the meeting entitled "Bassa Friulana, Carso and Julian Alps. Landscapes and paper itineraries". During the conference, which took place on Friday, 30 June in the Elena Mirò clothes shop and was conducted perfectly by Ilvano Caliaro and Roberto Norbedo, the public was able to appreciate a wonderful journey through our regional territory, as told through the works of great authors such as the irredentist Scipio Slataper and the poet Biagio Marin. Starting from Trieste, passing through Gorizia and Grado, and ending in Udine, the conference was a whirlwind of emotions, stories and tales that have made the history and cultural liveliness of Friuli Venezia Giulia beyond doubt.

Another interesting moment of the festival was the "Job Breakfast" on Saturday, 1 July, a working breakfast followed by interviews in the splendid setting of the central Piazza Libertà in Udine. The event was packed and enabled graduates and students of Udine University to deliver their curriculum vitae to contacts of the nineteen participating companies to try to win one of the dozens of jobs available. Also in the morning of Saturday, 1 July, I attended another two very interesting conferences. During the meeting titled "The First Clock Tower of Udine Castle", coordinated by the young Davide Dalla Pria and Tommaso Vidal and held outside the Bortolin Gioielli store, the relationship between the clock tower and the city ??was investigated through the documentation made available by the old municipality of Udine. I found some intriguing curiosities relating to the watchmakers who since the Middle Ages have used the most varied skills to make the clock mechanisms.

Another truly original conference was the one held by Simonetta Minguzzi within the Eccofatto shop and entitled "One Day in a Medieval Castle". With the help of a number of photographs and paintings illustrated in videos, Professor Minguzzi exhaustively illustrated every aspect of everyday life in a typical Friulian medieval castle: from hunting to leisure, lighting to personal hygiene, furnishings and the kitchen of the castle. It was a great opportunity to learn that even our ancestors loved dancing with live music, or playing draughts and dice games.

In conclusion I can certainly say that the Botteghe del Sapere really impressed me. They are a beautiful new way of understanding commerce and culture, two worlds that only seemingly appear very distant but which are in fact absolutely integral to each other.

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Andrea Tomasella

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A graduate in territorial sociology and development from the University of Trieste, contact person for the communication group of Punto Giovani in Gorizia. Journalist, town council member in Gorizia. I'm writing for passion and taking photographs for pleasure