A wonderfully restored villa, facing the enchanted sight of the lake of Como, very high level speakers and a perfect organization by the Como Chamber of Commerce’s staff.
These were the ingredients of the five evenings of LaboratorioComo, the initiative wanted by Paolo de Santis, Como Chamber of Commerce’s President, aimed to educate and stimulate the new entrepreneurs through the creation of an elite education school in the area named the Kilometer of knowledge, going from Villa Olmo to Villa Erba passing by Villa Grumello, where the event took place.
The level of the speakers was really excellent, it was a pleasure listening to experienced people talking about arguments I’m deeply involved into: becoming an entrepreneur, using technology to valorize cultural goods, keeping the bound with our territory, working in a pleasant environment and most of all being creative in order to be able to turn problems into opportunities and make products with a social function.
In particular I was impressed by the words of the engineer Giuseppe Natta, founder of Ecodeco Spa and maker of the La Cassinazza, by the speech of Davide Rampello, President of La Triennale and of the director Paolo Lipari with his “Wait a moment… what if?” synthesizing the moment in which a team’s creativity unleashes the power to break old schemas.
After these five evenings I really felt like there’s a favorable wind blowing into our direction about what we’re doing with i-muse™!

My solo Vespatour of the last summer continued from Florence towards southern Tuscany.
I slept just one night at the Ostello del Chianti in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa and I enjoyed it a lot thanks to the people I met there: the kind Silvia, the hostel’s manager and Alessio, a motobiker from Torino.
Valentina, the girl I met in Florence at Econoetica’s offices, recommended me to visit the mysterious Monteriggioni stronghold and to search for the even more mysterious cats without tail living there.
So I did and in the same evening on August 15 I managed to visit also San Gimignano, the 100 towers town.
The following day was anything but less intensive. Following the recommendation by Elisa, a friend from Como trainer at Palestra 100, I visited the San Galgano’s Abbey and I saw the mythic sword inside the rock!
Then I reached the La Meridiana agritourism in Montieri in the Maremma area to bring Elisa’s greetings to Mrs. Mirella, the manager of the agritourism.
In Palazzetto, along the road to Siena to get to see the Palio I met by chance Alberto, Angelo e Claudio, the three great Vespa-riders from Mantua and we finished the launch together.
Here you have the 47 photos of the “authentically Tuscan” tenth gallery of my Vespatour!

If it sounds too bold or solemn let’s try in this way: i-muse™ is ready!
Our PDA guide, the core of our entrepreneurial project, is ready to be tested!
Since this week the staff of the Educational Silk Museum of Como, who kindly allowed us to build the first contents for the guide according to the exhibits placed inside the rooms of the museum, began testing i-muse™ and evaluating its potential both from the technological and multimedia contents points of view.
Now we’re starting an intense invitation-only test phase in which we’ll test i-muse™ with different typologies of people and at the end of the visit in the museum we’ll ask them to fill a feedback questionnaire, a phase which will quickly bring us to the official presentation press conference.
We’re very proud of the work we did so far and we feel ready for the fire test, the moment in which our guide will go into the hands of visitors.
Maybe we don’t realize it well enough by ourselves yet, but we do have a great social responsibility with this project.
We created i-muse™ for you, bending technology to the service of you as visitors of museums and art events, so you’ll be the judges and you’ll tells us if we hit the target!

Ilaria, the art lover who “lend” her voice for the guide in i-muse™ , is the curator of a young art exhibition which will be inaugurated on Saturday June 2 at the Salone Age Parrucchieri in Piazza Vittorio Veneto 13 a Lurago d’Erba, not too far from Como.
For i-muse™ Ilaria did a great job, so it’s a pleasure for me publishing his announcement:

Guardando fuori è la seconda e più famosa mostra d’arte giovane, promossa dal Salone Age Parrucchieri in collaborazione con la Biblioteca Comunale di Lurago d’Erba e con il contributo di quattro imprese brianzole: Age Giardini, Edil Alfa3, Ferrari Impianti e Poliform. All’inaugurazione verranno offerti da La Coccinella di Albiate caffè e vecchi dolci dimenticati.
Guardando fuori prosegue a portare la sperimentazione creativa all’interno della vita reale, descrivendo in modo verosimile, la realtà delle piazze italiane, soprattutto quelle di provincia. Molte tele dipinte e molte stampe fotografiche presentate sono strumenti per acquisire la verità di ciò che si vede.
La mostra è caratterizzata dalla particolare laboriosità di Chiara Aldeghi e Antonio Bernardo, che presentano situazioni reali stereotipate, deformate ed estremizzate.
Le tele di Antonio Bernardo, articolate in sezioni che presentano gli elementi peculiari della piazza/sagrato e i personaggi che li popolano, sono state precedute dalle fotografie che l’artista ha utilizzato per i suoi dipinti.
Le fotografie di Chiara Aldeghi descrivono la piazza vera e propria; sulla base di alcuni specifici riferimenti si può immaginare che essa sia situata a Lurago d’Erba. La piazza accoglie un mercatino dell’usato, un’insegna di avventurosa costruzione e una vasta offerta di personaggi. La descrizione di questi uomini e donne è ottenuta tramite un brillante uso della luce, della posizione e dei colori.
I personaggi che popolano la piazza comprendono moltissime figure dell’immaginario collettivo: il tecnico, sedicente esperto di calcio e di qualsiasi altro argomento, il professore, filosofo e studioso di figure femminili, il tuttofare, il bimbo. E poi il nonno, il fattorino scapestrato, il carabiniere e le anziane signore che discutono esclusivamente di necrologi.
Nella piazza si discute di improbabili eroi, le cui storie costituiscono un racconto nella mostra.

GUARDANDO FUORI
Doppia personale di Chiara Aldeghi e Antonio Bernardo
LURAGO D’ERBA
2 giugno - 17 giugno 2007
Salone Age Parrucchieri, P.za Vittorio Veneto 13
Orari: festivi 10 - 12; 15 - 19
INGRESSO LIBERO

INAUGURAZIONE
Sabato 2 giugno 2007 - ore 17.00
Salone Age Parrucchieri
Lurago d’Erba - P.za Vittorio Veneto 13