[Music]
the rural world
what the rural world can do
fragile and at the same time rich in
potentiality what the world can do
rural to make a contribution to the
solution of the biggest problems of the
biggest issues of our time on
global scale
what the rural world can do to give
a contribution to the resolution of the crisis
environmental and erosion of
biodiversity
according to a research of the global crop
diversity trust about three quarters of
variety of cultivated species
in the last century they have been lost
the three quarters disappeared forever then the
rural world to establish models
innovations that inspire change
in all levels of the community
of the community through creativity
through the innovative spirit
through also concrete actions based on
to my experience
this is possible you can bring
ahead of these innovative models
through a plurality of projects
large and small but all having a
common a single common denominator ie
merging the synthesis in them of one
plurality of agriculture art discipline
ecology education science education
all merged together in a synthesis with
which to build work at
construction of evolution not only
of the rural environment but of the relationship that
human society to with the land that the
human society with other species
living about eleven years ago I founded
pole in the air
a project that brings together art
agriculture and activism its center e
right here just a few kilometers from loreto
aprutino is first and foremost a company
organic farming and at the same time
establishes activities of
education of training activities
cultural and at the same time is a
residence center for artists
international that come precisely from
all the world to try to try
involve the local community in
reinvention processes of theirs
identity and creation of new ones
rural economies this project that
we did a few years ago with the
American artists futurefarmers from the
title this is not and trojan horse ie
this is not a trojan horse ad
reverse the canonical symbology of the
trojan horse as a symbol of
deception comes here to consider
as a symbol of involvement one
itinerant sculpture that has traveled for
all the abruzzo from country to country from
farm and farm from an inhabitant
gathering the memories of civilization
peasant in decline and at the same time
even dreams, hopes , opinions, but
also the disillusionment of young people
farmers of the young inhabitants of
this community and then form one
sort of time capsule and archive
thoughts of ideas on the future of
rurality this project has then
also traveled beyond the border of Abruzzo
is
has been presented in different contexts
International
and today today the 20th of April
will be presented in san francisco al
yerba buena center for aids both the
work of futurefarmers is this
this work in particular today though
here I would like to talk about something in it
particular
here we go if I can trip and if a
seed container the seed something
very small but potentially a lot
vast something simple and at the same
complex time the most thing
extraordinary that we can do e
keep the seeds
the most revolutionary thing we can
to make and preserve the seeds by cultivating them
exchanging them by creating a great one together
a great biodiversity collection
collection of genetic resources establish
an interaction with a form of life in
light that at the same time is however a
vehicle of knowledge and one
testimony of civilization centuries and centuries
of human history in interaction with
the environment enclosed in a click of
wheat told from the grain of wheat
this is the philosophy of bob canard a
visionary farmer still active
today in California and is the philosophy of the
futurefarmers and also the philosophy of
an unstable radio raddrizzabile
radio project that revolves around
to the concept of the seed as a vehicle of
knowledge as a vehicle for ideas in the
time and in space
besides it goes to an unstable is a
hypothesized is based on the idea that the seed
be a sort of social media ie one
instrument through which it is
possible to interact between people
broadcast is the key word is the word
which in English means to transmit
it means propagating to spread this
applies to both the seeds and the
information that in these in these
seeds are contained
this radio project is about
mainly the themes of agriculture
sustainable the themes of the photos of the
collective forms of cultivation of the
ancient seeds and other themes
issues related to agriculture
contemporary is a form of
propagation of ideas far from the place
where they are formed because this radio
the contents of this radio come
created together by farmers and in
particular we started this
resistance farmers work
that work very small plots
here on the Abruzzo mountain together with
a cross group of subjects that
they are far from the world
agriculture
so we have economists expert in
detail of di sherling economy of
media studies of resilient activism e
raises the category of researchers that each
they are added to form i
contents of this of this radio i
authors are therefore together with the farmers and
the dredger of the tiziano bonini who are two
authors and radio radio papesse that
an Italian web radio
Another special feature of this radio
that yes
it emits its signal in different ways
both through the web radio and
through the installation of stations
temporary radio stations as we have
done in the case of the maxxi museum in Rome and
also through methods absolutely
traditional a program connected to
this content that is called the band
of the ancient grains went on the air on
rai radio3 and is still usable as
podcast on rapelay then the
particularity of this project
radio and that gives the possibility to
farmers to get their ideas across
their message in places that
otherwise they could not reach
because the radio to this particularity
to be a communication tool
extremely pervasive we have had
also the support of the European
cultural foundation and to bring this
project even outside the borders
nationals in europe we have entered to do
part of a network called a green
art lab alliance and putting together
cultural institutions that deal with
environmental sustainability and and through
these we managed to bring this
radio also in other rural areas and
not for example in the English countryside
in dorset in scotland as well as in town
like glasgow and edinburgh
therefore the particularity of this of
this project is precisely that of
create not just a new form of
communication for these for these
farmers putting together too
creating these transversal contents
together with these other researchers e
at the same time create an archive that
it is always growing of related contents
to the future of rurality this is
particularly important so you do not
stops at the transmission but then grows
thus creating this archive
always following the thread of the seed this
fil rouge or in this in the latter
months started working on another
project that this time at a focus
particular on the abruzzo focuses in
particular on this grain that we see
here that maybe many of you will know
this is the solina wheat of the Apennines
Abruzzese is a historic wheat, the oldest
of which there is memory in abruzzo there
are evidence of its use already 500
years ago so somehow a
this great represents the synthesis of
a native genetic resource from
preserve and at the same time is one
testimony of the culture of a people
and its link with the earth
this passage is today the object of a
European Commission project
European which is called preparatory action
on european union plant and animal
genetic resources in agriculture
basically it deals with promoting
enhance biodiversity protection
agrarian throughout Europe for 2017 is
a single seed has been chosen for this
conservation work and it is precisely the
solina then through the consortium
of the producers of the salina d’abruzzo
we are now working
to the implementation of this project
through a series of concrete actions
practices
the first is that of the construction of
a supply chain of bread alone or why
traditionally this grain is tied
to the flour it is tied to the bread
so we put on a supply chain that
bring together millers farmers
food technologies and naturally
storers consumers
in short, the whole chain that is based on
a specification of this production
of this bread and other supply chains
they will follow in reference to others
products always based on solina wheat
now this of the saline is therefore a case
emblematic, however, is not the only thing
wants to be only the first of a
broader path that we would like to bring
forward in the coming years and that concerns
all the agricultural biodiversity of Bruzzese
so this is the first chapter of a
speech that will only concern the
wheat but also all cereals legumes
the fruit orchards to try to
keep as much as possible to protect
agricultural biodiversity here in Abruzzo
we have this new project
called house that stands for caretakers
ancient seeds of abruzzo just to want
witness the importance and value of
these genetic resources towards the
construction of new rural economies e
not only
to cultivate biodiversity to feed on
biodiversity because in biodiversity
there is life, the diversity of plants
grown is the biological base
on which the whole system is based
agriculture is therefore fundamental
keep as much as possible
rich agricultural biodiversity to be able to
face the challenges that changes
climate
facing these challenges are challenges of
adaptation of resilience and if the
varieties grown cultivated species
they will not be able to adapt
if the whole agriculture will not know
we will not be able to adapt
then what we are also looking for
do and train and educate a
reacquire a relationship with the earth
from very small and also to ask us
always where the food comes from
let’s eat
which culture represents authenticity
of that culture the sustainability of
that culture
here are the school children
of the childhood of loreto aprutino that
see here they are learning it since
very small follow in their activities
the cycle of the seasons
follow the cycle of wheat production
they come with us to sow it they follow
the growth phases up to the harvest
so they are used since childhood
recognize biodiversity and has
clearly will have a sensitivity in
this sense and educate through
education through learning
through the acquisition of a sense of
responsibility that we can then
return to being citizens
aware of active citizens and
reinvent the future of ours together
planet then imagine and invent
the future starting from the origins
I would like to read a passage with which you are
concludes this book of lydia and clod
bordignon poster for an agriculture
sustainable says that to achieve
the creative inspiration of the great
things must have an eye that knows
see nature, a heart that knows
feel nature
a will that dares to chase nature
thank you
[Applause]
the rural world
what the rural world can do
fragile and at the same time rich in
potentiality what the world can do
rural to make a contribution to the
solution of the biggest problems of the
biggest issues of our time on
global scale
what the rural world can do to give
a contribution to the resolution of the crisis
environmental and erosion of
biodiversity
according to a research of the global crop
diversity trust about three quarters of
variety of cultivated species
in the last century they have been lost
the three quarters disappeared forever then the
rural world to establish models
innovations that inspire change
in all levels of the community
of the community through creativity
through the innovative spirit
through also concrete actions based on
to my experience
this is possible you can bring
ahead of these innovative models
through a plurality of projects
large and small but all having a
common a single common denominator ie
merging the synthesis in them of one
plurality of agriculture art discipline
ecology education science education
all merged together in a synthesis with
which to build work at
construction of evolution not only
of the rural environment but of the relationship that
human society to with the land that the
human society with other species
living about eleven years ago I founded
pole in the air
a project that brings together art
agriculture and activism its center e
right here just a few kilometers from loreto
aprutino is first and foremost a company
organic farming and at the same time
establishes activities of
education of training activities
cultural and at the same time is a
residence center for artists
international that come precisely from
all the world to try to try
involve the local community in
reinvention processes of theirs
identity and creation of new ones
rural economies this project that
we did a few years ago with the
American artists futurefarmers from the
title this is not and trojan horse ie
this is not a trojan horse ad
reverse the canonical symbology of the
trojan horse as a symbol of
deception comes here to consider
as a symbol of involvement one
itinerant sculpture that has traveled for
all the abruzzo from country to country from
farm and farm from an inhabitant
gathering the memories of civilization
peasant in decline and at the same time
even dreams, hopes , opinions, but
also the disillusionment of young people
farmers of the young inhabitants of
this community and then form one
sort of time capsule and archive
thoughts of ideas on the future of
rurality this project has then
also traveled beyond the border of Abruzzo
is
has been presented in different contexts
International
and today today the 20th of April
will be presented in san francisco al
yerba buena center for aids both the
work of futurefarmers is this
this work in particular today though
here I would like to talk about something in it
particular
here we go if I can trip and if a
seed container the seed something
very small but potentially a lot
vast something simple and at the same
complex time the most thing
extraordinary that we can do e
keep the seeds
the most revolutionary thing we can
to make and preserve the seeds by cultivating them
exchanging them by creating a great one together
a great biodiversity collection
collection of genetic resources establish
an interaction with a form of life in
light that at the same time is however a
vehicle of knowledge and one
testimony of civilization centuries and centuries
of human history in interaction with
the environment enclosed in a click of
wheat told from the grain of wheat
this is the philosophy of bob canard a
visionary farmer still active
today in California and is the philosophy of the
futurefarmers and also the philosophy of
an unstable radio raddrizzabile
radio project that revolves around
to the concept of the seed as a vehicle of
knowledge as a vehicle for ideas in the
time and in space
besides it goes to an unstable is a
hypothesized is based on the idea that the seed
be a sort of social media ie one
instrument through which it is
possible to interact between people
broadcast is the key word is the word
which in English means to transmit
it means propagating to spread this
applies to both the seeds and the
information that in these in these
seeds are contained
this radio project is about
mainly the themes of agriculture
sustainable the themes of the photos of the
collective forms of cultivation of the
ancient seeds and other themes
issues related to agriculture
contemporary is a form of
propagation of ideas far from the place
where they are formed because this radio
the contents of this radio come
created together by farmers and in
particular we started this
resistance farmers work
that work very small plots
here on the Abruzzo mountain together with
a cross group of subjects that
they are far from the world
agriculture
so we have economists expert in
detail of di sherling economy of
media studies of resilient activism e
raises the category of researchers that each
they are added to form i
contents of this of this radio i
authors are therefore together with the farmers and
the dredger of the tiziano bonini who are two
authors and radio radio papesse that
an Italian web radio
Another special feature of this radio
that yes
it emits its signal in different ways
both through the web radio and
through the installation of stations
temporary radio stations as we have
done in the case of the maxxi museum in Rome and
also through methods absolutely
traditional a program connected to
this content that is called the band
of the ancient grains went on the air on
rai radio3 and is still usable as
podcast on rapelay then the
particularity of this project
radio and that gives the possibility to
farmers to get their ideas across
their message in places that
otherwise they could not reach
because the radio to this particularity
to be a communication tool
extremely pervasive we have had
also the support of the European
cultural foundation and to bring this
project even outside the borders
nationals in europe we have entered to do
part of a network called a green
art lab alliance and putting together
cultural institutions that deal with
environmental sustainability and and through
these we managed to bring this
radio also in other rural areas and
not for example in the English countryside
in dorset in scotland as well as in town
like glasgow and edinburgh
therefore the particularity of this of
this project is precisely that of
create not just a new form of
communication for these for these
farmers putting together too
creating these transversal contents
together with these other researchers e
at the same time create an archive that
it is always growing of related contents
to the future of rurality this is
particularly important so you do not
stops at the transmission but then grows
thus creating this archive
always following the thread of the seed this
fil rouge or in this in the latter
months started working on another
project that this time at a focus
particular on the abruzzo focuses in
particular on this grain that we see
here that maybe many of you will know
this is the solina wheat of the Apennines
Abruzzese is a historic wheat, the oldest
of which there is memory in abruzzo there
are evidence of its use already 500
years ago so somehow a
this great represents the synthesis of
a native genetic resource from
preserve and at the same time is one
testimony of the culture of a people
and its link with the earth
this passage is today the object of a
European Commission project
European which is called preparatory action
on european union plant and animal
genetic resources in agriculture
basically it deals with promoting
enhance biodiversity protection
agrarian throughout Europe for 2017 is
a single seed has been chosen for this
conservation work and it is precisely the
solina then through the consortium
of the producers of the salina d’abruzzo
we are now working
to the implementation of this project
through a series of concrete actions
practices
the first is that of the construction of
a supply chain of bread alone or why
traditionally this grain is tied
to the flour it is tied to the bread
so we put on a supply chain that
bring together millers farmers
food technologies and naturally
storers consumers
in short, the whole chain that is based on
a specification of this production
of this bread and other supply chains
they will follow in reference to others
products always based on solina wheat
now this of the saline is therefore a case
emblematic, however, is not the only thing
wants to be only the first of a
broader path that we would like to bring
forward in the coming years and that concerns
all the agricultural biodiversity of Bruzzese
so this is the first chapter of a
speech that will only concern the
wheat but also all cereals legumes
the fruit orchards to try to
keep as much as possible to protect
agricultural biodiversity here in Abruzzo
we have this new project
called house that stands for caretakers
ancient seeds of abruzzo just to want
witness the importance and value of
these genetic resources towards the
construction of new rural economies e
not only
to cultivate biodiversity to feed on
biodiversity because in biodiversity
there is life, the diversity of plants
grown is the biological base
on which the whole system is based
agriculture is therefore fundamental
keep as much as possible
rich agricultural biodiversity to be able to
face the challenges that changes
climate
facing these challenges are challenges of
adaptation of resilience and if the
varieties grown cultivated species
they will not be able to adapt
if the whole agriculture will not know
we will not be able to adapt
then what we are also looking for
do and train and educate a
reacquire a relationship with the earth
from very small and also to ask us
always where the food comes from
let’s eat
which culture represents authenticity
of that culture the sustainability of
that culture
here are the school children
of the childhood of loreto aprutino that
see here they are learning it since
very small follow in their activities
the cycle of the seasons
follow the cycle of wheat production
they come with us to sow it they follow
the growth phases up to the harvest
so they are used since childhood
recognize biodiversity and has
clearly will have a sensitivity in
this sense and educate through
education through learning
through the acquisition of a sense of
responsibility that we can then
return to being citizens
aware of active citizens and
reinvent the future of ours together
planet then imagine and invent
the future starting from the origins
I would like to read a passage with which you are
concludes this book of lydia and clod
bordignon poster for an agriculture
sustainable says that to achieve
the creative inspiration of the great
things must have an eye that knows
see nature, a heart that knows
feel nature
a will that dares to chase nature
thank you
[Applause]
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