GEnova, 31 Mar. (askanews) – Four days of comparisons, debates and very popular meetings: Palazzo Ducale in Genoa saw the 14th edition of the cultural festival “The story in the square”, which this year was dedicated to “The squares of history”.
“We talked both of political squares and economic squares and of fun squares – he told Askanews Carlotta Sorba, professor of contemporary history at the University of Padua and curator of La Storia in the square – so it was truly a theme that lent itself and moreover, as if to say, in a society in some way increasingly dematerialized, the idea instead of returning to physical places and in which it is shared in the whole”.
The theme of comparison with the virtual dimension, of social media as new community squares, is one of the most current themes, which implies a complex relationship – and sometimes problematic – between the individual dimension and the macro economies that govern the network. “In the virtual square we are there – explained Emmanuel Betta, professor of contemporary history in La Sapienza di Roma and curator of the event – and indeed the object of the transaction, Our peculiarities, the data that concern us.
And, even more so, today the question concerns which space is possible for the square as a physical place. “He came out in these days – added Professor Sorba – that this space is there and is always stronger. We see it, however also in the news these days. In short, Turkey is not a small thing and therefore an idea of returning precisely to forms of sharing in physical and concrete spaces as the squares are, it seems to me that there is a sort of desire for the square “.
And then there is the word “history”, in addition to “square”. And here we obviously speak of perspective and memory. “The historical gaze – concluded Professor Betta – helps us to problematize the choices that surround us and of which ourselves we are very often aware actors or not”.
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