Cagliari FestivalScienza 2023

The call is reserved for students of Artists’ High Schools and Graphic Design Higher Institutes in Sardinia. The title of the 16th edition of the festival “Science in Movement” implies the message that the ScienzaSocietàScienza association wants to convey: the fact that Science is in continuous movement and opposes the state of mental inertia in which we often find ourselves unconsciously or aware. Science, like Art, is revolution, it is a movement of ideas in search of something that satisfies curiosity, the desire to express a need, to discover a new molecule or a new expressive technique. The wheel, the motion of the planets, the power of steam, the cinema cannot ignore the movement that generated them which is first of all a new vision of the world. Staticness is dangerous and is an indication of laziness or fear of the unknown. Science teaches that where there is movement there is evolution and requires us not to stop because what may seem like an achievement today is just a starting point for new research. Cultural movements, whether of a scientific or artistic nature, have the task of awakening consciences, making them face the problems of the fact that there can be a variability of ideas, ways of thinking or expressing themselves which must be channeled from a perspective of knowledge to suggest valid solutions to the new problems that we are forced to face every day, from environmental to social, health and gender issues. For this last point, the female presence in the scientific and artistic fields and in all fields of knowledge is a “moving” process that will still require time for an epochal change in terms of freedom of expression and democracy.