The challenge facing Sardinia is a generational one. The Einstein Telescope is one of the largest scientific infrastructures in the world, the future ‘CERN of gravitational waves’.
History teaches us that territories grow or decline based on their ability to produce innovation, not just to host it. It is not enough to have natural resources or good starting conditions: a public vision capable of guiding, investing and generating ecosystems is needed. This is what studies on territorial innovation tell us, and it is the crossroads at which Sardinia finds itself today.
Sos Enattos is a place that is already transforming the economic, social and cultural fabric of the island. The Einstein Telescope can become the multiplier of this transformation: world-class scientific research underground, new landscapes of innovation on the surface, dialogue between scientific knowledge and local communities. It particularly concerns the younger generations, because it is on them that the ability of a territory not to resign itself to decline is measured.
Italy’s bid for the Einstein Telescope is supported by the government, the Ministry of University and Research, the Region of Sardinia, universities and research institutions. But what is needed now is widespread cultural work and a shared vision.
This is why the ET Contest is important and why it is great that it has been organised as a competition of ideas, aimed at the under-40s, with a jury that includes figures such as Portuguese landscape architect Joao Nunes and Colombian architect Giancarlo Mazzanti.
‼️The deadline is 31 March: young designers from all over the world, unite!
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