Il Sentiero del Brigante e il Sentiero dell'Inglese sono due percorsi che si snodano attraverso l'Aspromonte e che negli ultimi due anni stanno ottenendo un buon successo anche tra gli escursionisti stranieri grazie al lavoro di alcune giovani guide, decise a recuperare al turismo luoghi e paesaggi tristemente famosi per storie di criminalità e sequestri di persona. Angelo Frangipani una di queste guide (della cooperativa San Leo), conduce un gruppo di trekker australiani attraverso Palizzi Superiore, Bova, Pentedattilo e altri villaggi semiabbandonati della Calabria greca: il viaggio porta gli escursionisti in un territorio sconosciuto agli stessi turisti italiani, tra tradizioni dal sapore pagano - come le celebrazioni della "Pupazza" della domenica delle palme- e personaggi affascinanti.

Caserta è l’unica città del sud a vantare un titolo nella pallacanestro vinto agli inizi degli anni 90, con la Phonola Caserta, oggi Pasta Reggia Caserta. Dopo essere praticamente scomparsa alla fine degli anni 90 è ricomparsa nel 2003 iscrivendosi in serie B e nel 2008 è tornata in serie A.

Nel piccolo borgo di Casa Matti di Romagnese (Pv), il numero di persone richiedenti asilo è lo stesso degli abitanti: 25. Venticinque sono i profughi e lo stesso i residenti, quasi tutti pensionati. L’hotel Alpe, gestito da Maurizio, ha accettato la richiesta della Prefettura di Pavia per uno spirito cristiano e perché vedeva che il paese stava morendo: ormai un numero esiguo passava lì il suo tempo e avrebbe dovuto presto chiudere la sua struttura. I ragazzi africani (provenienti dalla Nigeria, Senegal, Mali e Gambia) hanno trovato in mezzo alle colline dell’oltre Po, ai piedi del Penice la sponda dove finalmente “arrivare”. Sperduti più che mai, non solo fisicamente, giunti alla fine della parte più pericolosa del viaggio. All’arrivo dei profughi a febbraio, il piccolo borgo si è subito allertato ed è partita una raccolta firme guidata dal più giovane degli abitanti, Samuel Cuneo. Hanno firmato tutti tranne due persone. Gli abitanti vogliono che se ne vadano. Non è successo nulla ma la percezione di insicurezza alimentata da pressioni di parte dell’informazione e della politica, sta creando tensioni in paese. Le persone che non hanno firmato si trovano quasi discriminate mentre le altre, fatta la premessa di non essere razzisti e non aver subito alcunché da loro, confermano la perduta pace. Temono che l’inattività in un posto così lontano da tutto li porti a delinquere, che i turisti si spaventino e non capiscono perché portarli dove già non c’è nulla per i residenti stessi. A Casa Matti non c’è nessun negozio, farmacia o servizio pubblico, a parte i due alberghi-ristoranti. Maurizio cerca invece di coinvolgere i ragazzi nella vita (non certo sfrenata) della comunità montana. Partite di calcio con la locale squadra di Romagnese, richieste per lavori socialmente utili al sindaco: la pulizia delle strade e delle tante mulattiere che attraversano le colline fino al Penice a all’Alpe, proprio sopra il borgo. Nel frattempo i ragazzi fanno controlli sanitari, cercano di imparare l’italiano e condividono lo spazio comunque dell’hotel. Con i loro telefonini cercano una finestra sul mondo in cui sono sbarcati o su quello che hanno lasciato. Qualcuno anche dopo 5 anni di viaggi, attraverso i pericoli in Algeria e Libia. Chi da guerre dimenticate (Casamance, Senegal e Gambia) o nuove (il nord del Mali in mano a seguaci di Daesh) o religiose: sono cattolici i ragazzi della Nigeria.

The Porta Nuova neighborhood has undergone profound changes in recent years. The tower Unicredit designed by architect Cesar Pelli, the "Vertical Forest" by architect Stefano Boeri and the Pavilion of architect Michele De Lucchi are the spearhead. The square Gae Aulenti has become a center of attraction for the inhabitants and tourists. The streets in the vicinity, such as Corso Como or surrounding neighborhoods, such as Isola, have now more attractions and charm.

Ponte di Nona is a suburb of Rome. Ponte di Nona is a work on the daily life of the middle class, suffering for the ongoing crisis, in a new suburbs.

Assignment for Case Da Abitare (now Living)

It was 2008, I was in Istanbul and I had some days off. Instead to visit again Istanbul, I decided to take the train towards north, towards Europe, to visit some Bulgarian city along the Black Sea. I fell in love with the Black Sea, I loved watching what was in this closed sea. In the next years I found the way to go back to Bulgaria again and then I went in Ukraine. My plan was to visit all the country along the Black Sea. Then, I do not know what has happened, but I never came back along the Black Sea. Now, after seeing so long the folder "Along the Black Sea" there, on my hard drive, I decided to see what I was doing over there.

The Analogia Project is the result of a long-term collaboration between designer Andrea Mancuso and architect Emilia Serra.

Italian car giant Fiat has said it will cut 1,500 jobs in Poland because of the weak car market in Europe. Tichy, the Fiat Auto city in Poland. The city has grown substantially, in the 50's as a dormitory of Katowice. The neighborhoods have names of the alphabet, from A to Z. Even today, the districts are buildings that mark the decades in which they were built, the 50's, 60's, 70's. Some malls are one of the few community centers, the rest are ranks of buildings. Few people around during the week, the weekend is animated a little in the central area, close to Tychy hotel. Young people can just go in the near Katowice, where there is more life, more fun.

Le turbine eoliche stanno rivelando, dopo un iniziale entusiamso, una serie di problematiche che n mettono fortemente in dubbio l'utilità. Al di là del malaffare che alle volte si è nascosto dietro la costruzione dei parchi eolici, molti comitati cittadini si sono formati per arrestarne la crescita selvaggia ingiustificata. L'apporto reale alla produzione di energia delle pale non va oltre il 2% e per avere qualche risultato di rilievo andrebbero tempestati di parchi eolici tutte le zone appenniniche d'Italia. Nel solo Molise si è arrivati al paradosso di avere una richiesta per 5mila pale per un territorio di poco più di 4mila km2. Il vero core business è negli incentivi che sono quasi il doppio rispetto all'europa e nei certificati verdi che i parchi eolici rilasciano che sono vendibili alle aziende che inquinano. Anche se le pale stanno ferme. E spesso le pale girano molto meno del preventivato, producendo ancor meno di quanto supposto. Intanto zone vergini diventano improvvisamente zone industriali. Tra gli altri dubbi: chi smaltisce l'impianto, quando sarà terminato il ciclo di utilizzo?

I have photographed my father during his illness because I hadn't done it when I should have. I have photographed my father because I couldn't look at him without hiding behind the camera, withholding my emotions, postponing them to a private, secret thereafter. I have photographed suffering before, but then I was following my inner fire, holding my camera like a sword, now it had become my shield. His illness put a stop to the countless incomprehensions among us. There was no time for arguments anymore, only time to declare my love. My own children will not know who he was, will not hear his stories, will not drink from the same fountain of life that I drank from. It is like they will never know a part of me, the most important part. I had thought my father was forever, eternal. Even if I hated him. He was like a mirror to me, projecting my accusations, my fears, my hatred, staring at myself with my own eyes. In the summer we used to go visit the grandparents in Puglia, in the land where our blood comes from, their blood, my blood. The roots. Will my children understand who he was? Will I be able to pass them that strength, that character that they already have in their blood? Will they know where that energy comes from? Will they recognize the entity that something has passed from father to son? The blood, the roots.

A tough town, Taranto, always has been. A story with roots in Ancient Greece has reached today with the failure of the policy, the notification for the international rating in the city insolvent. The city, which had already its problems, is the disarray, the lack of confidence is ruling: rare successes, very few the chances, so many failures. The sudden industrialization in the 60's with the arrival of Italsider, today Ilva, and the second Navy Italian harbor and workers civil Arsenal, instilled energy into the city that had lived mainly on fishing, shellfish cultivation and agriculture . These were the years of the boom. But Ilva (the "il siderurgico" as it is called) was a thud. Of the thirty thousand workers in the late 60th it has gone to thirteen thousand today, the area is a source of pollution and cancer, the nearby cemetery of the district Tamburi is red by dust. The arsenal of the Mar Piccolo is going to be sold and the workers know that the golden days are long gone, about the future is better not to mention. Yet from the sea come the only news: the new military harbour that the Navy has opened in the Great Sea, and the new commercial port, the Polisettoriale. The Polisettoriale, run by a company in Taiwan, offers a bit of hope to young people whose only prospect seems the Ilva steel factory, emigration, or worse, to fight to finish in the most petty crime. Difficult areas such as Salinella, Taranto old town or the even harder "white houses" in Paolo VI give a sense of abandonment of citizens. The streets of downtown refurbished, or the waterfront graced by the council failed, have drained the coffers of the city. These works are not enough to citizens. A worker farmer of the famous mussels from Taranto says that the mussels are dying. With them his work. In Taranto, remained only the sun.

Chi sono i volontari? chi è questa gente che si adopera per gli altri? cosa li spinge, perchè in un momento come questo, dove c'è poco per tutti c'è chi si dedica agli altri per nulla in cambio se non un appagamento emotivo? Un viaggio all'interno di una delle associazioni più attive sul territorio milanese dà nome e cognome ai volontari che sono a contatto reale con i i più bisognosi che vagano per le strade, le stazioni e i parchi di Milano. Persone normali che lavorano in banca, insegnano a scuola sono pensionati oppure professionisti, medici o imprenditori. Sono persone come noi, che hanno una vita normale, ma che dedicano alcune ore della loro settimana agli altri, a chi non ha più nessuno, a chi ha solo la strada.

As Moscow's urban landscape continues to change, with soaring skyscrapers piercing the city skyline and restoration on historic buildings becoming more-and-more common, foreign curiosity of the Russian capital often focuses on the metropolitan center rather than the city's outskirts. I used the last stops on the city's metro system as a connect-the-dots perimeter map, investigating the fringes of the city, venturing off no more than 450 feet from each subway entrance to produce a photographic sketch of the "edges of Moscow."

The Diesel is a multinational clothing corporation, the new head office is located at Breganze (Vicenza), Italy, opened in September 2010. It has stores all over the world. It was founded in 1978 by Adriano Goldschmied and Renzo Rosso, president of the company still today. In 1985 Renzo Rosso acquired full ownership of the company, in 1988 and was hired creative director Wilbert Das. Since the early nineties, the diesel starts to open stores around the world. The company currently has approximately 2200 employees, 17 plants located in Europe, Asia and America.

Poltrona Frau is an Italian company leader in the furniture industry founded in 1912. It has been a supplier to the royal house of Savoy as the liner Rex. Now part of the Charme group that encompasses excellence in the furniture industry. The Poltrona Frau "dressed" with specific qualities versions of models of the most prestigious car manufacturers, Bugatti, BMW, Maserati, Ferrari, Fiat (new 500), Mini and also in other Moto Guzzi. National airline of United Arab Emirates Etihad Airways, as well as Singapore Airlines, in their First Class.

Busnelli is being involved for half a century in the production of upholstered furniture signed with the silver brand. The experimental care of the searchers of Centro Studi & Ricerche Busnelli (Study & Research Centre) and the co-operation with professional architects and designers, generated high qualitative and design products which denoted the Company's history. Many of these products, characterized by innovative forms, time-proof materials, versatile structures, have contributed to the design history; Fiocco and Libro, original chairs of 1970, are part of the Permanent Collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Cassina operates at an industrial level in the contemporary furnishing sector, with special skills relative to upholstered furniture and wood and leather working as well as with other precious materials. It produces chairs, tables, armchairs, sofas, furniture items and beds. Some of the basic objectives of the company strives for the highest quality through an excellent combination of industrial technology and artisan manufacturing procedures, the ever-increasing development of its own research capacities at what is already an internationally recognised level and the preservation of its historical values and traditions. The products in the Cassina collection reveal the company mission. Different languages and cultures are embraced, and ample space is given to experiments in style and materials. Many Cassina products appeared futuristic on their debut, and several were almost disconcerting. However, time and the company's farsightedness in continuing to present these pieces have made them classics that blend perfectly with the rest of the collection.

Ever since its foundation in 1966, B&B italia has been a leader in the contemporary furnishing sector. the company has won international acclaim as a representative of italian furniture design, both for homes (B&B Italia home division) and public areas (B&B Italia contract division). The group's headquarters are located north of milan, in a prestigious building designed by renzo piano and richard rogers. It is famous for the alchemy resulting from a mix of creativity, innovation and production that creates modern, yet timeless, pieces of furniture. B&B Italia collaborates with international designers, leaving its own distinctive mark on each product: every design is unique, an exemplification of the values of research, creativity and function. The importance of research, which has always been a fundamental aspect of the group's development, is evident in the in-house research and development centre.

Michele De Lucchi was born in 1951 in Ferrara and graduated in architecture in Florence. During the period of radical and experimental architecture he was a prominent figure in movements like Cavart, Alchymia and Memphis. De Lucchi has designed lamps and furniture for the most known Italian and European companies. For Olivetti he has been Director of Design from 1992 to 2002 and he has elaborated various personal theories on the evolution of the workplace. He has developed experimental projects for Compaq Computers, Philips, Siemens and Vitra. He has taken care of numerous art and design exhibitions and has planned buildings for museums as Triennale di Milano, Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma and Neues Museum Berlin. His professional work has always gone side-by-side with a personal exploration of architecture, design, technology and crafts. In 1990 he founded Produzione Privata, a small-scale company concern through which Michele De Lucchi designs products that are made using artisan techniques and crafts. In 2003 the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris has acquired a considerable number of his works. Selections of his products are exhibited in the most important design Museums in Europe, United States and Japan.

La casa dei demoni (The house of demons) is in a private apartment of seven hundred and fifty square meters, ten minutes from the Duomo. The owner is Oliviero Leti, PR and event organizer who has decided to turn his apartment into an open place, where he host a selection of very few guests.

EXCLUSIVE - INSIDE A VESTAS FACTORY...With more than 30,000 wind turbines installed in more than 60 countries all over the world, Vestas is the world?s largest supplier of wind power systems. Having started to manufacture wind turbines in 1979, Vestas has played an active role in the wind industry. Since it started to concentrate exclusively on wind energy in 1987, Vestas has become global high-tech market leading group with more than 11,900 employees (September 2006)...Currently, Vestas has developed onshore and offshore wind turbine models ranging from 850 kW to 3,0 MW based on state-of-the-art technology and innovative design solutions that ensure the best possible energy generation. Vestas? four technology areas are design and production of blades, control systems, nacelles and towers. Our competences cover every stage of wind project planning, installation and operation, including studies and simulations, the wind turbines themselves, supervisory monitoring and control, grid support, project management, and service and maintenance.

Sea Force One, a 54mt yacht, with its extraordinary design and decor, has set what can be consider a new milestone in the yachting world. The boat receive a Green Star Certificate for low environmental impact and won, at the 2008 Monaco Boat Show, the first RINA Secure Mega Yacht Certificate for safety and comfort on board. (www.seaforceoneyacht.com)