Dizionario-interculturale

The volume of sound is essentially linked to the amplitude of vibrations. To understand the ubiquity of the intercultural meanings in the attribution of certain intensities to sound, simply think of the difference between the opposite effects of shouting or quietly whispering.

It is a process (not an end!) that involves people from various cultures on an absolutely equal level. It is a generative process that from diversity creates beauty and sets new knowledge in motion. Promoting intercultural dialogue means knowing how to listen and recognise different points of view regarding the heritage that surrounds us. Intercultural

Short-term orientation can be defined as the value for which only the present, the immediate result is essential, to the detriment of the traditional point of view, in which the relativism of moral or intellectual values is important. Long-term orientation favours questions about why rather than what and how, and favours tradition over the immediate

Masculinity is the value of societies in which the social role of men and women is far apart (i.e. men are supposed to be assertive, rude, and focused on material success, while women are imagined to be tender, modest and attentive to themes such as the quality of life), while femininity is the value of

Every change in theory is matched by some important metaphors. These provide us with the tools to understand and shape life, to see, think and act in new ways. In psychoanalysis, concepts such as analytic third, transitional spaces, inter-subjectivity, suggest that the encounter between two subjects can create something “third”, resulting from the combination of

Is the discipline that covers the organisation of durations and it is applicable to poetry, music and dance. There is certainly the possibility of establishing intercultural dialogue by also managing metric, initially as it relates to the choreographic articulation of dance, then to its accompanying poetic text, and accordingly to the music constructed around these

In intercultural projects, and in general with cultural activity, it is important to be clear about the urgency that drives us to propose and carry out the project, as well as the needs that one will encounter, in order not to risk entering into a dynamic of appropriation of the other and a sterile confirmation

Music, like verbal language delivers its own signs by means of sound substance. In the acoustic continuum (the set of all possible and audible sounds 16-20Hz/16000-20000Hz) music, like language, cuts out a limited range of phonemes which, taken in isolation, are not significant. Only from their aggregation do they develop discursively along the linear axis

This is a word that includes many others. Words and storytelling are the first tools that human beings invented to understand the world. In the same way, narrating one’s own story is a fundamental tool to give meaning to one’s life and experiences, often the latter become intelligible only after they have been communicated to