#DoTellBocconi. Giulia Cappellaro

DISCOVER THE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT IN ARTS, CULTURE, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT THROUGH THE ANSWERS OF PROFESSOR GIULIA CAPPELLARO

Protagonist of #DoTellBocconi for the Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment graduate program is Giulia Cappellaro, who answered a burst of 32 questions in front of the camera. You can read are all her answers here below.
   

1. What adjective describes you

Tenacious

2. If you were an animal?

Cheetah: fast and early riser

3. The best quality for a student

Pragmatic idealism

4. As a teacher, what adjective fits you?

Egaging

5. If your program was a cult movie?

“Blade Runner”

6. Create a motto for your program 

Creativity is the tip of an iceberg made of passion, commitment and daily work

7. The phrase you like best to say in class

Assumptions exist to be challenged, but to do so, you must be curious and ready to learn and work hard

8. Three things you would take to a desert island 

A fishing pole, Robinson Crusoe and Anime Salve by De Andrè

9. The book that your students should absolutely read 

“Sense and Sensibility” by J. Austen, followed by “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by W. Benjamin

10. If your course was a dish, what would it be?

Couscous

11. What do you like to sing in the shower (or car)?

“La Vie en Rose” by Edith Piaf

12. Any obsessions? 

3.5 cups of coffee between 6 and 7am, every morning

13. The most beautiful gift you ever received

The first trip alone, in India

14. And the most useless one? 

One of the many cookbooks that I regularly receive every Christmas

15. What kind of student were you? 

The kind of student I urge my students not to be! Shy and anxious

16. The exam you found most difficult (as a student)

Information Systems. A paradox for the daughter of a computer engineer

17. Where did you / would you do your Erasmus?

Berlin

18. What superpower would you like to have?

Time manipulation

19. What superpower does your program provide?

Easy: omniscience

20. Your hero?

I would rather speak of role model: Rita Levi Montalcini

21. As a child you dreamed of becoming

Archeologist

22. You cannot live without

My two cats

23. If you could meet a figure from the past, who would it be?

Leonardo da Vinci, a genius able to combine arts and science for the progress of humankind

24. In which country would you like to live? 

A country where respect is the rule of law and altruism is the currency

25. If your program was a sport, what would it be?

Fencing: acumen, readiness of mind, discipline and unconditioned passion

26. Something you think needs to be invented

A device to track emotions and turn disruptive emotions into constructing ones

27. Your most unbridled passion

Hiking in the Alps

28. Something you just cannot stand in the classroom

The inappropriate use of technologies

29.  If you were the protagonist of a novel, who would you be?

Sherlock Holmes

30. In the future, where will lessons take place?

In the nature

31. The work of art that most represents your course 

“Composition X” by V. Kandinsky

32. What would you ask from the genie of the lamp?

That every graduate could capitalize on the values and the lessons learned to cultivate their professional project and never give up
 

by Benedetta Ciotto