NOAH'S ARK

In January 2005 started an intensive programming of cultural events promoted by DPU (today Department of Urban Design and Planning) that, for this purpose, founded a centre of production and cultural promotion with the name of “Noah’s Ark”.

Why Noah’s Ark? Ark is the Latin term that indicates a box for the values. The Noah’s Ark is also, in the Old Testament, the large vessel with which Noah saved a couple of animals of every species to repopulate the earth after the Flood. Then the Ark can represent not only symbolically the place in which the most precious things are guarded for the knowledge and its transmission, but the place where these are cultivated, developed, shared.



Always referring to the Old Testament, Noah is represented as a wise and good man, chosen by God as founder of the new humanity survived to the Flood. He represents the symbol of a necessity, of a wish of perpetuation of the species, to create new possibilities of growth and development in continuity with the past.
So also the Centre Noah’s Ark in the Department, after years of obscurantism and fragmentation, has found a dimension that favours "the stay", the study, the research and the socio-cultural relationships, having at last the possibility to live in spaces that, thanks to the commitment of the Athenaeum, result of great quality and potentiality both for size that for comfort.

The Ark of Noah in figurative sense is also a place full of life, of movement, in which develop processes of growth, in which cohabit different identifiable “species” of different cultures, approaches and scientific interests of research. And it’s for these reasons that the Noah’s Ark has been called a “centre of cultural promotion” in the renewed building of the Holy Spirit. Centre as cultural incubator that, like similar structures in the University, assumes the role of pole around which admit students, studious, researchers and all who have interest to develop ideas and cultural lines, to promote meetings with authors and publishers, to prepare exhibitions and all that is necessary to arouse interest and curiosity around the results elaborated in the University.