Festival Archaeology of the Present

Fondazione Luigi Rovati inaugurates in Milan the first edition of the festival Archeologia del Presente (Archeology of the Present), conceived by Marco Bracconi and Giulia Zanichelli. From our present, we look at the past through archaeology; in the same way, we ask how those who come after us will look at our present.

Fondazione Luigi Rovati presents a series of talks and discussions on contemporaneity, understood as an archaeology of the future. Peoples, Myth, Medicine, Rights, and Milan are the themes explored across five events scheduled from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 May.

The first meeting is dedicated to Peoples: famines, religious conflicts, wars, colonization, and climate change have always shaped migration processes. What will the future of these dynamics look like? Marco Aime discusses the topic with Giulia Zanichelli.

Mario De Santis, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Paolo Di Paolo engage in a discussion on Myth and its roots in the collective imagination across past, present, and future, starting from the figure of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

The meeting dedicated to Medicine features a dialogue between Lucio Rovati and Vittorio Alessandro Sironi, tracing the evolution of medical science between millenary traditions and technological innovation.

The theme of Rights is explored by Marco Bracconi and Emilia Rossi through a reflection on the relationship between law and individual rights.

The meeting dedicated to the city of Milan brings together Mario Abis, Gianni Biondillo, Marco Bracconi, and Lucia Tozzi to address the development of Milan and its possible future amid urban, social, and economic transformations.