About this book

The book was created as part of the project “Dialogues of UNESCO Chairs: a labo-ratory of ideas for the world to come”; it presents a collection of results of the rich discussion on sustainability issues that had been launched in that context. The initial idea of “Dialogues” was to invite each of the Italian UNESCO Chairs to create a webinar for a cycle of online conversations on sustainability, through which to address the polyphony of the themes, approaches, disciplinary points of view of the Italian UNESCO Chairs on the complex and urgent global challenges of our time. With the series of webinars, the Italian UNESCO Chairs explored many themes and aspects of contemporaneity, observing it in the light of sustainable development. In some cases, the UNESCO Chairs have presented the synthesis of their work, concerning scientific research, training or dissemination, in other cases they have addressed an exemplary aspect, a specific and significant case study, as a contribution of ideas and experiences put in place for sustainability. By proposing a dialogue between experts, which was also aimed at a non-expert audience, the webinars helped to reinforce the idea of the need for a transdisciplinary approach to face the complexity of the current context and the challenge it poses to us.