Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.10: SPARKS: From a spark to a flame

Think of a line. It has a beginning, a middle and an end. You start your trip. You live, you play, dance, laugh, cry, talk, ask, wonder, you show, you grow. Your people love you, they pay attention to you, take care of you, help you, they are there every moment to admonish you, to […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.5: Art was actually the missing piece

The great philosopher Aristotle, in his “Poetics”, formulated the well-known definition of tragedy: Tragedy is, then, a representation of an action that is heroic and complete and of a certain magnitude—by means of language enriched with all kinds of ornament, each used separately in the different parts of the play: it represents men in action […]
The problematic of tradition

Our identity is a mosaic of perceptions, which are renewed and enriched throughout our lives. Along the way, there are times when we are given the opportunity to choose the pieces that will make up our identity. However, other times, this choice is out of our control. A case as such is that of the […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.4: Dear younger self

Dear younger self, It’s been a while since I tried to talk to you. It’s been so long that I don’t remember anymore. I was counting the days, but at some point, I ran out of fingers. I stopped. Counting got heavier… so I just stopped. You’ve grown up. I watch you, however, silently through my […]
Art and artificial intelligence: End or Beginning?

If you had told someone, a few years ago, that artificial intelligence (or AI) could create a complete work of art, they would have laughed – and rightly so. However, we have now reached an age where even this has become a reality. Art has been influenced and changed by technology. Now this change […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.3: For Ithaca

“As you set out for Ithaca, hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery.” writes the great poet, K. Cavafis, and these verses cannot leave us untouched. Cavafy’s journey is not a return journey – in contrast to the Odyssean one- but a journey of departure and Cavafy’s Ithaca appears as […]
A song, a moment…

Since being inside the womb, we hear our mother and father talking to us, confiding to us their dreams for our future, their worries, their impatience to meet and hold us in their arms. But, more than anything else, we hear them singing softly and melodically to us. This continues after birth with lullabies, games, […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.2: How many excuses have you let go of?

Imagine this: you on a bench in a park, next to the sea or in a square. Life around you. People talking, playing, running, enjoying the sun, moving quickly to go to work. Now, press pause on the image and process what you see. A boy whose balloon got out of his hand. A girl’s […]
An article about those who cannot read

The twentieth century has been identified as the age of information. Today, at the beginning of the next century, information remains abundant, the ways to obtain it are dozens and the access to it is easier than ever. However, there is still a more-than-seven-digits number of illiterate people. Illiterate people, i.e. people who do not […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.1: But I still dare to dream

But I still dare to dream When we were little children, we often woke up in the middle of the night from some bad dream; dragons, monsters, witches were just a few of the thoughts that kept us awake at night. Our mother would stroke our hair, telling us reassuringly “it was just a bad dream, […]