An interview with Miti Desai Miti Desai is the founder and creative head of Miti Design Lab. A designer and classical dancer, Miti teaches as a visiting faculty at the Srishti School of Art, Design Technology (Bengaluru, India) and at Sophia Polytechnic (Mumbai), and has personally created and executed courses initiating children into Holistic Design, […]
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A new form for an ancient essence Martha Graham was called the “high priestess of modern dance” and “Dancer of the century”. She was the dancer and choreographer with the greatest influence and impact on modern dance starting from the 1930’s in the U.S. She created a famous dance group, composed approximately 180 works and
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Tania Zaldívar Teotihuacan was one of the most important cities in the Mesoamerican territory. Its name is of Nahuatl origin: Teōtihuácān “place where men become gods”, or “place where they were made gods; city of the Gods”. The first settlements are dated around the year 100 BC, and the first urban constructions between 100-150 AD.
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María Angustias Carrillo de Albornoz “Mandela was amused by the literal meaning of Western family trees. In his vision, we are all arms of the same great tree. That’s Ubuntu.” (Mandela’s legacy, Richard Stengel) Ubuntu is “one of the best gifts that Africa has given to humanity”, said the late Desmond Tutu (1931-2021). It is
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Introduction José Morales To study the ancient world it is necessary to study in depth some concepts that marked the behavior of human beings in their social or political relationships. One of these fundamental concepts is that of oikos, from the Greek οἶκος, the equivalent of the term “house” in Ancient Greece, but which has
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World Philosophy Day 2022 This year 2022, New Acropolis joined the celebration proclaimed by UNESCO during the month of November with a common theme for its more than 400 branches around the world: THE LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS. Approached from very different angles, we wanted to unravel that universal language of the symbol that, surpassing all
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2024 International Assembly Asamblea Internacional de 2024 MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF THE IONA HELD ON 12 APRIL 2024 GENERAL DECLARATION The General Meeting of the IONA approved the following Declaration: The International Organization New Acropolis (IONA) has been carrying out activities for World Philosophy Day uninterruptedly for the last sixteen years at
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World Philosophy Day 2023 In a world where the apparent and the insignificant seem to have a lot of value, where what is meaningless is praised and where important things are ignored because no one keeps their word, in New Acropolis we joyfully join the celebration of World Philosophy Day. This day, proclaimed by UNESCO,
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2023 International Assembly Asamblea Internacional de 2023 MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF THE IONA HELD ON 23 MARCH 2023 GENERAL DECLARATION The General Meeting of the IONA approves the following resolutions: In the face of the suffering being experienced by the nations involved in the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia, the International
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