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| PRESENTATION |
For nearly twenty years,
Experimenta has offered adults and children the possibility
to explore science and its frontiers in an involving and
fascinating manner. Over 2,000.000 visitors have taken
advantage of this opportunity in the preceding editions.
Experimenta 2005 presents the 19th edition to the public,
which once again confirmsthe intent to divulge and at
the same time to play, taking full advantage of a consolidated
methodology assuring success.
The Piedmont Region, ever the brain, inventor and organiser
of the exhibition, has also this year respected the promise
to produce a scientific-interactive event at a high level.
Thanks to the work of the Management of the Regional Committee
involved, and the great amount of collaboration developed,
in 2005 the value of Experimenta has strengthened once
again, and will soon take on a permanent character in
the birth of the Centre for Science “Exploit”
a project in collaboration with the Province and the City
of Turin.
“Experimenta” has grasped the unrepeatable
opportunity of the Winter Olympics 2006, which will make
Turin and the Piedmont Alps the world centre of sport
on snow, to place itself in the parallel Cultural Olympics
and invite its visitors to discover the scientific aspects
of sports activities, especially those held in the mountains.
In “Experimenta 05 / Do you accept the challenge?”
sport is therefore the point of departure and the central
theme, inasmuch as it lends itself very well to exhibits
and to experiments of an interactive and immersive character,
according to the tradition.
The problem immediately arises about what kind of prospective
to give to sport. The choice was not to bet on agonistic
sport or on extreme sport, but to choose sports activities
which have as the principal object, education for a healthy
life and a harmonious relationship between the body and
mind.
The “challenge” is intended first as an invitation
to reach a goal, without forcing the performance of which
all of us are capable. Only subsequently can this also
become a challenge to others and to the environment for
example that of the alpine summits.
From this the guiding idea of “intelligent muscles”:
that is to say the attention to a sport sustained by the
knowledge of the “machine” of our body, of
a correct diet in relation to the athletic performance
and to scientific and moral education that brings us to
reject any recourse to doping.
In coherence with this project, “Do you accept the
challenge?” develops the themes of muscular structure,
motor co-ordination, aerobic and anaerobic activity, the
relationship psyche/sport, training, influence of the
environment in which the sports activity is undertaken.
However, Experimenta could not forget that the mountains
were, and in part are still, an extraordinary scientific
open sky laboratory. On the Alps in the second half of
the 18th Century, they began the first research regarding
the behaviour of the organism in rarefied area, the reactions
to cold, about physics of the atmosphere and the adaptation
that flora and fauna carry out where environmental conditions
become extreme. Yet the Alps hosted, in the 20th Century,
“Angelo Mosso”, Institute avant guard research
on human physiology at altitude and then on the physics
of cosmic rays and elementary particles in the Laboratories
of Testa Grigia and of Mont Blanc. All these themes are
developed in the exhibition, placing sport in a wider
cultural framework, which goes from geology to physics,
from meteorology to biology.
Experimenta has accepted the challenge, even this year,
and thanks to the precious collaboration of public and
private enterprises, and all those who with their contribution
have permitted the realisation of this exhibition, presented
as a double event; that of the summer, from June to November,
and that in the winter from December to March 2006 which
will accompany the Olympic event and enhance science and
technology until the conclusion of the Para Olympics. |
L’Assessore
alla Cultura e Politiche Giovanili
Gianni Oliva |
La
Presidente della Regione Piemonte
Mercedes Bresso |
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