Cartolina 6 June

Italian structural engineer Stefano Pampanin is a professor at the University of Canterbury. He’s been very involved with the Christchurch earthquakes, as well as following the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake very closely. Now Stefano has been made president of the New Zealand Society for EarthQuake Engineering, in contact with the same institutions present in all the earthquake-prone countries of the world. We talk about sharing expertise, and what this means for the recovery of Christchurch.

Cartolina 23 &28 May

Luca Quaglia, on the phone from Wellington, talks about his researches and his work with building materials, his interest in astronomy, and the little village in the Italian Prealpi where he comes from (via Parigi…)

Cartolina 9 & 14 May

Interview with Paul Elenio, on the phone from Wellington, who talks of the just released revised edition of his book Alla fine del mondo at the end of the world, about Italian immigration to Wellington and the Bay of Islands.