Bringing back local woods for the future of cities
an encounter with Carlo Blasi, Sapienza Università di Roma

Bringing nature back into our lives starting in the city to facilitate biodiversity and reduce environmental pollution: that is one of the aims of the PNRR which proposes to reintroduce local trees and bushes into our urban systems. With over 4.5 million plants already planted, Carlo Blasi, co-author of the proposal and President of the Foundation for Italian Flora, tells us how operations of the kind are possible despite the meagre availability of spaces and plants in urban areas, and he discusses their impact on our present and future.

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Plants, us, intelligence
an encounter with Paola Bonfante, Università di Torino, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome

Are plants intelligent? Do they talk to each other? Their ability to respond to the environment and their astonishing capacity for survival have prompted a number of researchers and popularisers to talk about plant intelligence, and more recently about their “feelings”. Plant biologist Paola Bonfante, who has devoted her scientific career to deciphering the dialogue between plants and fungi, will be illustrating the different approaches to this question, and telling us how crucial it is not to confuse plants’ capacity for adaptation with an awareness.

Informazioni

Admission free while places last. Reservations are recommended

Sala Auditorium - Palazzo Esposizioni Roma

Admission via steps in via Milano 9a

Reservations may be made on the Italian version of this page from 9:00 am on the day before the encounter until one hour before it is due to begin. If for any reason you are unable to come, please remember to cancel the reservation in your basket so that someone else can book the place you’re freeing up. You can still attend the encounter even without a reservation, while places last.