Festival-OFF › "Peace Pathway: The Sanctified Heritage of the Warlords"

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🇬🇧 The aim of the intervention is to discuss how the culture of preserving cultural, artistic, and monumental heritage has over time uncritically sanctified our relationship with historical figures, works of art, and monuments that were the product—wonderful and refined—of an indisputable and unquestioned culture of war, defined and practiced by "ruthless cutthroats" (Antonio Pinelli, La bella maniera, 1993).

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Gianfranco Franz - Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Prevention at the University of Ferrara, holding courses in Territorial Organization and Planning (Department of Architecture), Policies for Sustainability and Integral Development (Department of Economics and Management), and Designing Sustainable Cultural Itineraries (Department of Humanities). For 15 years, he directed the international Master’s program EcoPolis, developing ongoing relationships and activities with universities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Japan, Mexico, and Uruguay. Since 2021, he has participated in and is…