Maison de la Paix || Casa Universale delle Culture (EN)

 

CASA UNIVERSALE DELLE CULTURE

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture is a place strongly representative, in which will convey the knowledge of the different identities and cultures, structuring permanently initiatives aimed at the spreading of peace, necessary for the shared development.

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture (MdP) is a project conceived by Michele Capasso, approved by many Countries and international organizations. It is an architecture that keeps the memory of many Peace activities which created history, often more than the wars, but it is – above all – a space "to build” Peace.

The architectonical complex has an important symbolic worth: it represents the Countries of the World engaged in the Peace process and the Countries victim of the conflicts.

Proposed by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the Maison des Alliances – together with the main adherent organizations, such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the League of Arab States, the "Anna Lindh" Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and others, the MdP represents a referent point for all the ones who dedicate their lives to peace.

The symbol of the MdP is the "Totem for Peace", an artwork by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari which the Fondazione Mediterraneo is promoting all around the world, creating the network of the "Cities for Peace".

The first seat of the MdP was inaugurated on the 14th of June 2010 (Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture) in the historical building of the Grand Hotel de Londres in Naples.

The action of the Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture aims at improving the main activities of the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in: Barcelona (2004), Monterrey (2007), Valparaiso (2010) and Naples (2013).

The Maison de la Paix performs most of the initiatives jointly with the Maison de la Méditerranée.

 

Egi Volterrani - architect, writer, set designer, journalist, cook and much more - left us shortly before his 80th birthday.
He was one of the founders - with Predrag Matvejevic', Igor Man, Claudio Magris, Gerardo Marotta, Nedim Gursel, Khaled Fouad Allam and many others - of the Fondazione Mediterraneo in the early 1990s.
Ironical, autoironic, cultured, lazy: many adjectives that can never describe Our Dear Egi.
We remember this with the video testimony on our friend Mario Molinari when the city of Turin dedicated a plaque to the sculptor of colour: even then Egi asked for a chair in the hall of the palace to better articulate words and emotions.

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The events organized by political parties and civil society bodies hosted in the Museum of Peace - MAMT continue, in the spirit of inclusion and collaboration that the Fondazione Mediterraneo has been pursuing for over 25 years.
After the conference of "Energie per l' Italia","NACA","Ordine degli Architetti di Napoli","Associazione pro-migranti" and "Essere Sinistra" is the turn of "Forza Italia" on the theme of welfare, social services and solidarity. This was discussed by Severino Nappi - regional councillor - Mara Carfagna - parliamentarian and national spokesman - and other specialists coordinated by Corriere del Mezzogiorno director Enzo D' Errico.

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Among the initiatives of the Fondazione Mediterraneo is that of transmitting the memory of emotions to young Albanian children, such as, for example, a visit to BUNK ART where the recent history of Albania is testified and in particular that of the dark period of the dictatorship that lasted until the beginning of the 1990s of the last century.
The boys between 15 and 16 years old at the end of the visit and meeting with President Capasso shouted a single word: LIVE FREEDOM!

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The events organized by political parties and civil society bodies hosted in the Museum of Peace - MAMT continue, in the spirit of inclusion and collaboration that the Fondazione Mediterraneo has been pursuing for over 25 years.
After the conference of "Energie per l' Italia","NACA","Ordine degli Architetti di Napoli","Associazione pro-migranti" is the turn of the "Essere sinistra" Movement on the themes of work, health, environment, pensions and rights.

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