Today, Wednesday 8 June, the book "What happened to Città della Scienza: a Neapolitan thriller or a metaphor of the South?”, written by the journalist and sociologist Diletta I understood and published by Guida Editori. The appointment is at 17 al Palace of the Arts of Naples (Pan). Marco Demarco, journalist, Luigi Nicolais, professor emeritus of Federico II University, and Marilicia Salvia, deputy editor of Il Mattino will intervene.
The book traces the history of the Città della Scienza in Naples, "a colossal structure - reads a note - which had the ambition of being a flagship of the South", but which was then drastically reduced. In particular, the author investigates the reasons that led to this result, which represents at the same time one of the many unfinished works, disappointing but occasional phenomena, and a metaphor of the dynamics that weigh down the growth of Southern Italy.
As for responsibility, must be sought on several levels: "from the scientific to the political one - the note continues - of management stress and trade union intervention that forced the surrender of what should have been and in many ways it was the place and village of innovation, a center for dissemination science with a "museum" structure but also an incubator of many successful startups, an example of the enhancement of an extraordinary landscape area due to too much neglect and too much time unfortunately left to itself".
Finally, the book traces the profile of Vittorio Silvestrini and Vincenzo Lipardi, the two founders of the Città della Scienza, the first master of the second, "first embraced in the elaboration and implementation of the structure and then separated from the purpose and its management", concludes the note.
