The Design of Return

Welcome to our episode finale of this season of The Design of Return podcast. Our episode 9 is the story of Nida and her longing to return to her homeland in Afghanistan while rebuilding a sense of home somewhere else.Poet Adrienne Rich wrote « It is always what is under pressure in us that explodes into poetry ».When home has been taken away, longing is like that pressure that l

What does food, and in particular, bread, activate for us in our experience of placemaking?In today’s episode I interview Laura Lazzaroni, author, food expert and bread consultant.Laura is Italian, lived in New York and returned to Italy after five years there. She is the author of several books, like “The New Cucina Italiana” edited by Rizzoli in English, and “La formula d

Bentornatə. Il settimo episodio di The Design of Return podcast è la storia di chi dal Sud Italia se n’è andata, ma ha trovato un modo per tornare da in-betweener.Racconto la mia esperienza personale e intervisto Rita Elvira Adamo, co-fondatrice della Rivoluzione delle Seppie, un gruppo attivo di giovani professionisti internazionali che opera in Calabria con un approccio tran

Friedrich Nietzsche said, “Every living being can become healthy, strong and fruitful by living within a horizon”. Our most immediate horizon as humans is our body.Welcome to Episode 6, “Return to my body”. In conversation with Bekka Gunther, we explore what it means to return to your body and your body image as something and someone you fully own. From growing up in a reli

Some of us succeed not despite the range of experiences we have, but because of that.And Katie Longmyer is an example of that. An ambassador of variety and dissolving this duality we all know too well: that at work you can only be one thing.As an in-betweener, Katie calls herself “the quiet person in the loud room”. As such, she built her own bridge as a business artist to mast

Today’s story is about Ayyaa Soma, formerly known as my friend Giovanna Maselli, who ordained as a Buddhist monk, leaving her former self as a fashion journalist behind.Ayya is the co-founder of Buddhist Insights, a non-profit organization she created with fellow monastic Bhante Suddhaso, dedicated to making monastic teachings more accessible to the general public. Together they

Nel terzo episodio di The Design of Return podcast, intervisto Andrea Conte, in arte Andreco, con cui esploriamo il ritorno alla natura come qualcosa di cui siamo parte, non come qualcosa da dominare.Il lavoro di Andrea Conte, in arte Andreco è l'opera di un alchimista. Ingegnere ambientale, scienziato, viaggiatore, artista visivo, le opere di Andreco sono la manifestazione della

Nel secondo episodio di The Design of Return podcast, affrontiamo il viaggio intenso, consapevole e guaritore verso un senso di casa di Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti. Nata in Rwanda nel 1991 e cresciuta a Brescia, Espérance è scrittrice, attivista e speaker radiofonica. Con lei parliamo di cosa significa aver perso la sua prima casa; di adozione internazionale e transrazziale; d

In our first episode of The Design of Return podcast, we explore what it means to have two languages in one mind, and what can we learn from the way the bilingual brain explores, understands, and processes the world.I interview Doctor Alicia Luque, a neurolinguist who specializes in the bilingual brain. Our interview took place before the American presidential election, while in th

Preview The Design of Return podcast per ascoltare in anteprima le interviste della prima stagione, in arrivo ogni mese a partire dal 22 giugno. Creator e host Donatella Caggiano racconta la sua storia di ritorno in Italia dopo dieci anni negli Stati Uniti e intervista "in-betweeners", ospiti che vivono sulla soglia tra diversi Paesi, culture, lingue e identità sulla loro esperien