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5 May 2021

IED Torino x Fondazione FILA Museum

The project was about reimagining, along with ten groups of students, as many alternative visions of our museum. The originality and the complexities of the proposals made…
24 February 2021

Sculpture in the expanded FILA

Few people know that the motto ‘Less is more’, commonly referred to Mies van der Rohe, was actually invented by another genius of 20th century’s architecture, Peter…
13 January 2021

110: From behind the shrine

Am I dreaming? In this silence-soaked room, it’s a doubt that often comes to me. I observe the faces of the athletes on the walls, their arms…
12 November 2020

Capitale Italia: The 19th business culture week

Tradition is to keep the fire alive, not worhipping ashes Czech composer Gustav Mahler said once. That’s it: in the year of the health emergency that led…
21 October 2020

Ten years

The Italian industrial production in the 19th and 20th is plenty of fascinating realities: anyway, not all of them have been safeguarded in a proper way. When…
16 September 2020

Creativi in FILA

When we launched our Achieve the Archive contest last spring of course we aimed to enrich our archive, but most of all we wanted to create an…
9 September 2020

FILA goes to Hollywood: The Firm

Movies about English working class’ anger are many and valuable: just think of Master Ken Loach’s entire filmography. Not mention the verve of Full Monty by Peter…
26 August 2020

Sources: Biella’s chimneys

In 1980 writer Giosuè Carducci, the first Italian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote a poem that generations of Italian schoolchildren would have later studied…
19 August 2020

Courtside: Ray Giubilo

Can I turn on the fan? It’s so hot, in here As we video call Ray Giubilo, he istantly engages us with charming openness. Born in Adelaide,…
12 August 2020

Sound On: Melanie C

In 1996 the Liverpool-born singer breaks out in the music scene as a former member of the Spice Girls, the most successful English girlband of all times…