Terzo Paradiso/ Third Paradise
May 24th
11am EST, 17:00 Central Europe Time
The Event will be held on Zoom
(featured image: Terzo Paradiso – Ashram Joytinat 2016 – Ph Cristina Cardillo)
Join Michelangelo Pistoletto and international ambassadors of the Third Paradise to discuss ideas and work that has been done through the movement of the Third Paradise, a project initiated by Pistoletto. Ambassadors are spread throughout the world and are constantly communicating and sharing projects. Maria and Michelangelo Pistoletto, Unidee and Cittadellarte are the heart of the international efforts.
Audience members are invited to send us ideas to represent and communicate an effort to work towards a “new humanity” while integrating the symbol of the third paradise. Ambassadors will spotlight their work in the Third Paradise project. During the event, ambassadors and audience members will participate in a live exercise of translating their ideas through the image of the Third Paradise.
WHAT IS THE THIRD PARADISE?
It is the fusion between the first and second paradise. The first is the paradise in which humans were fully integrated into nature. The second is the artificial paradise, developed by human intelligence to globalizing proportions through science and technology. This paradise is made of artificial needs, artificial products, artificial comforts, artificial pleasures, and every other form of artifice. Humankind has created a truly artificial world which has triggered, in an exponential manner and in parallel with beneficial effects, irreversible processes of decline and consumption of the natural world. The Third Paradise is the third phase of humanity, realized as a balanced connection between artifice and nature.
The Third Paradise is the passage to a new level of planetary civilization, essential to ensure the survival of the human race. To this purpose we first of all need to re-form the principles and the ethical behaviours guiding our common life.
The Third Paradise is the great myth that leads everyone to take personal responsibility in the global vision.
The term “paradise” comes from the Ancient Persian and means “protected garden”. We are the gardeners who must protect this planet and heal the human society inhabiting it.
The symbol of the Third Paradise, a reconfiguration of the mathematical infinity sign, is made of three consecutive circles. The two external circles represent all the diversities and antinomies, among which nature and artifice. The central one is given by the compenetration of the opposite circles and represents the generative womb of a new humanity.
Michelangelo Pistoletto, 2003
The Third Paradise assumes a concrete and operative form through the activities of Cittadellarte and its global network (made of Embassies, Forums and Working Sites, and hundreds of partners), and the best practices presented in Geographies of Change.
This is a recording of the event:
A Third Paradise for the UN birthday. For the 70th anniversary of the organization, Italy donates a large installation by Michelangelo Pistoletto
A Third Paradise symbol made of boats in a performance over the Havana’s Malecon’s waters, in the fusion between the Almendares River and the Caribbean Sea, on December 16th, 2014. The following day, December 17th, the agreement between President Barak Obama of the United
30-meter long and 12-meter wide, the installation was set up on a floating dock by citizens, who used plastics retrieved from the sea in order to relieve the pollution of the Mediterranean.
