00:00Italy in motion, motorways and the future, I think it's an interesting meeting of wills.
00:09On the one hand, a group of leaders that has taken over the motorway society only a year and a half, two years,
00:16so it's like taking over the future of this incredible device.
00:21And on the other hand, a knowledge, a culture of architecture and of the city that for many years
00:27has been built on how the motorways interact with the territory, with the places, with the cities, with the people and with the country.
00:34So putting together these two conditions, both interesting and both proactive, I would say,
00:41a project was born that could, on the one hand, tell the extraordinary occasions that have arisen in the country
00:50from the presence of the motorway in architecture, in engineering, in landscape design, in technical and technological design.
00:57On the other hand, to understand how we can see the future when we no longer need to lengthen the motorway,
01:04but to make it safer, more efficient, more capable, more connected, more sustainable, more capable of generating energy,
01:12rather than simply spending it.
01:15Yes, let's say that the exhibition has two levels.
01:18There is a thematic level, in which we tell about the network, the journey, the presence that is in the motorway,
01:24the visions that the motorway generates or the ideas that it brings out.
01:29On the other hand, this necessarily corresponds also to different periods,
01:34that is, in the first phase, the expansion of the network, in the central phase,
01:38everything that the motorway has built around itself and within itself.
01:42And in the future, which we look at with a certain caution, because it is always dangerous to expose it to the future,
01:49experiments by Renzo Piano, drawings by an illustrator who tells a kind of dreamlike condition of tomorrow's motorway,
01:58and then these beautiful photos, which we all hope to appreciate.
02:02Ivan Ban is probably the most sought-after and authoritative architecture photographer today.
02:11And so I think we also found the golden opportunity there for both, for the motorways,
02:18to find the most suitable person who could make a portrait of this system of connections.
02:25On the other hand, for Ivan it was an extraordinary opportunity,
02:28because he really has a passion for this vision from above,
02:31to fly with the helicopter on things and make them become extraordinary objects of landscape portraits.
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