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2005 Edition
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2005 Science Festival welcomed numerous outstanding guests,
on a par with those who have participated in previous years.
Among them: Amir Aczel, Andrea Ballabio, Giovanni Bignami, Edoardo Boncinelli, John Brockman, Marcello Buiatti, , Richard Ellis, Brian Fagan, Richard Fortey, Owen Gingerich, Giulio Giorello, Pietro Greco, Brian Greene, Robert Laughlin, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Giorgio Parisi, Roger Penrose, Carlo Alberto Redi, Martin Rees, Merritt Ruhlen, Sandro Stringari, Paul Seabright, Gino Segre, Craig Venter, Gabriele Veneziano.
Exhibitions, laboratories, and special initiatives: for 2005,
the Science Festival of Genoa  planned
a series of events that explore the planet of science from
every angle. Science and education met in the exhibits of
the "Simple and complex 2005" exhibition, which returned,
more extensive and more interactive, and in the numerous
natural science, physics, chemistry, and astronomy laboratories,
while the exhibition dedicated to the fossils discovered
in Patagonia illustrated the latest devices adopted to discover
the history and secrets of dinosaurs. Art and science were
at the centre of a large exhibition, "The four elements",
which put the spotlight on the way contemporary art interprets
nature; numerous other photographic, educational and interactive
exhibitions completed the 2005 Festival exhibition programme.
 The
intense programme of shows special events for the 2005 Festival
compared the different languages of science, dance,
art, the television documentary, the theatre and the cinema,
featuring the world premiere of "The Children of Uranium" by
Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke.
Plus theatre performances, concerts, games, animation and
special events that made the whole city of Genoa the Capital
of Science for 13 days.
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Download
an abstract of the 2005 programme
Click here to download
the programme (PDF, 774 KB)
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Download
the complete press release
Click here to
download the press release of 2005 (PDF, 150 KB)
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