THE MAISON DE LA PAIX

 

 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.

 

TOWARDS COP 26. SMART CITIES - BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES

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Lisbon | 22 September 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Italian Embassy and the British Embassy in Lisbon, in collaboration with the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Portugal and ICE - Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies, organized the Webinar "Smart Cities: Building Sustainable Cities".
The Fondazione Mediterraneo intervened with professors arch. Michele Capasso and Massimo Pica Ciamarra who presented the volume "Towards Naples Metropolitan City" as an example.
The event is part of the initiatives aimed at spreading the importance of the issues that will be dealt with at the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change, which will take place in the city of Glasgow between 31 October and 12 November 2021.
The webinar wanted to be an opportunity to deepen the path taken by Italy and Portugal in the implementation of their respective Recovery and Resilience Plans, with specific regard to the tools that will be put in place to develop a more sustainable mobility and that puts at the service of the environment the most advanced technologies. Central element of the study was the planned path of energy transition in key impact on the future organization of urban centers.
The event, which received an extraordinary response in terms of attendance and interactivity between the speakers and the participating audience, has created a significant space for reflection.
The event was opened by the Ambassador of Italy in Lisbon, Carlo Formosa, the British Ambassador in Lisbon, Chris Sainty, and the President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Portugal, Santi Cianci, followed by the interventions of João Meneses, Secretary General Business Council for Sustainable Development - Portugal, Stefano Giorgetti, Councillor for Infrastructure and Mobility of the Municipality of Florence, João Tremoceiro, Director of the Center for Management and Urban Intelligence in Lisbon and Sergio Gambacorta, Head of Smart City - Innovability Enel X.
The event was concluded by the participation of the Undersecretary of State for Mobility, Eduardo Pinheiro, who highlighted the importance of the meeting as an opportunity to spread the need to find solutions to achieve the objectives set by the Paris Agreement.

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PLANNING PEACE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE

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Naples | 23 September 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

ACLI and FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO organized the webinar "Programming peace in the Mediterranean: the Palestinian issue".
Participants included, among others, Dr. Filiberto Parente, Lawyer Maurizio Dago, Prof. Pasquale Gallifuoco, Prof. Carlo Amirante, Prof. Michele Capasso, Director Moni Ovadia, Arch. Mahammad Hannoun, the archimadrida Abdallah Iulio.
President Capasso in his speech presented the program "UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD" and the video of the thirtieth anniversary of the Foundation.

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THE FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE VIDEO "NAPLES METROPOLITAN CITY"

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Naples | 12 October 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

President Michele Capasso presented a preview of the video "Naples Metropolitan City" in Rome.
This video is a summary of the book "Towards Naples Metropolitan City" and was made by Michele Capasso for the Fondazione Mediterraneo. The objective is to demonstrate the importance of moving rapidly from the "Metropolitan City of Naples" to "Naples Metropolitan City".
Edited by "Civilizing the Urban - ETS" (with Patrizia Bottaro and Massimo Pica Ciamarra) and "NA.ME. - Institute for the Transformations of Naples Metropolitan City" (with Pasquale Belfiore, Alessandro Castagnaro, Ottorino Celano, Massimo Clemente, Annalola Geirola, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Riccardo Rosi) with contributions from Valerio Barone (institutional aspects), Michele Capasso, Livio De Santoli (energy and sustainability), Paolo Frascani (economic history), Claudio Troisi (infrastructure and mobility) and Gennaro Russo and Claudio Voto (Italian Institute for the Future / Center for Near Space).

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THE FOUNDATION IN TURIN ON THE OCCASION OF THE BOOK FAIR

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Turin | 14 October 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On the occasion of the Turin Book Fair, the Fondazione Mediterraneo organized various events. Among the speakers were President Michele Capasso, Pia Molinari and other members of the Fondazione.
On this occasion, President Capasso recalled the longstanding relationship with the Book Fair since 1995, when the then Director Guido Accornero, accompanied by the Mayor of Turin Valentino Castellani, participated in the presentation of the multi-year programs of the Fondazione.
In the following years, the Fondazione Mediterraneo participated with its own stand at various editions of the Salone de Libro, presenting the main titles of its publishing series and organizing events with the main members of the Fondazione's scientific committee: from Predrag Matvejevic to Tahar Ben Jelloun, from Claudio Magris to Vincenzo Consolo, from Baltasar Porcel to Khaled Fouad Allam, from Igor Man to Umberto Eco and so on.
In this edition, the Foundation presented the emotional videos "La Campania delle Emozioni" and, in particular, "Pino è Terra mia", "Procida L'isola delle Emozioni" and "Napoli Città Metropolitana".
A significant moment was the presentation of the video of the thirtieth anniversary of the Foundation with the participation of men of culture, politicians and representatives of the networks with which the Foundation has collaborated in the last thirty years.

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