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Events The Forest of Innovators
21 September 2024
Fun and impact, together: between talks, meetings and connection with nature, we have built a Forest!
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Back to school
13 April 2021
VAIA the project
Why our future depends on wood
3 March 2021
Climate change & Sustainability
The line and the circle: two viewpoints on economic thought
4 February 2021
VAIA the project
Managing rebirth: face to face with Paolo Kovatsch
14 January 2021
VAIA the project
Our 2020
28 December 2020
VAIA the project
When music meets sustainability
15 December 2020
VAIA the project
Happy B-day VAIA! Our first year together
27 November 2020
La tempesta Vaia
The Vaia storm: a first-hand report
23 October 2020
Vaia the storm
Living through the storm: a personal account
23 October 2020
VAIA the project
TransVAIA: discovering the Lagorai mountain chain
11 September 2020
“Ci saremmo potuti approcciare al racconto di VAIA da 100 altri punti di vista.” Le parole di Nicola e dei ragazzi di Amartia Film in occasione della presentazione del video “Il lato positivo” ci lusingano. Per noi, sono un riconoscimento importante della ricchezza di valori che permea il progetto. Vi abbiamo già parlato del design, del legame con il […]
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In many respects, Italy suffers from a marked inability to recognise and develop its strengths. It is therefore not surprising that there is insufficient consideration for a raw material that is of strategic importance for our future: wood. There are at least three ways in which we need to think more carefully about this precious resource. […]
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The upheavals of 2020 have accelerated the changing pace at which we live and create new products and services. In the background, stand two simple geometric figures. The line characterises supply chains that start with the extraction of virgin materials, and which ultimately see the product as waste. The circle accompanies the thought that every output of one production […]
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Paolo Kovatsch is the technical manager of the Provincial Forestry Agency of the Autonomous Province of Trento, and leads the recovery and restoration actions of the local public woods affected in 2018 by the storm VAIA. We have interviewed him to take stock of the situation on the territory, two years after the event. Trentino 1966-2018: what […]
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Dear Vaiers, 365 days present too many frames to behold them all in a single glance. Yet, if the year in question is 2020, it is likely that memory has deliberately erased several portions of a year we all wish to put behind us. Nevertheless, this is for VAIA a year to remember. Since moving […]
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The destinies of VAIA and of the Italian band Eugenio in Via Di Gioia could not have crossed paths in a more auspicious way. On 26 September 2019 the “Eugenii” (plural of Eugenio) have issued Lettera al Prossimo, a digital platform inspired by the homonymous track from their album Natura Viva, with a fundraising campaign […]
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It was planned to be the day of sustainability, design, environment and territory. And so it was, despite the new restrictions that have once again confined us to the screens. We blew out our first candle by hosting top-level speakers, who gave us valuable accounts of the issues that revolve around the world of VAIA. […]
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“I heard tree trunks breaking and trees falling around me. It sounded like the mountain was collapsing.” Storm VAIA continues to accompany us through the traces it left behind in the areas of the Alpine arc. Those days at the end of October 2018 will remain in the memories of those who experienced them – […]
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“I could hear the noise of logs breaking, of trees falling around me. It sounded like the mountain was about to collapse.” The VAIA storm continues to accompany us through the marks left on the Alpine arc. Those days at the end of October 2018 remain etched in the memory of those who experienced it […]
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From 17 to 19 July 2020 the VAIA team ventured into the wild Lagorai mountain chain, which separates Valsugana from Val di Fiemme, where we planted 500 trees just under three months ago. It was a way of reminding ourselves who we are and where we come from. Crossing the areas hit by the storm […]
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