Pino Donghi, Rome 1957, trained as a semiotician, mainly deals with science communication and cultural planning.
In more than twenty years as General Secretary of the Sigma-tau Foundation – from the end of the 1980s to 2011 – he organized twenty-three editions of Spoletoscienza as part of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto; edited the “Italian Lessons” series for Laterza Publishers; promoted the collaboration with Luca Ronconi and the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, with the Teatro Stabile of Turin, with the Auditorium Parco della Musica of Rome, for the staging of scientific texts. Author of numerous volumes on the topic of science dissemination and policy – including The Government of Science (2003) Alterando il destiny dell’humanità (2006) Sui Generis. Themes and reflections on science communication (2006) all published by Laterza – he is co-author, together with Gilberto Corbellini and Armando Massarenti, of Bi(bli)oetica. Dictionary for use, Einaudi 2006, from which Luca Ronconi adapted the show of the same name which was staged at the Teatro Vittoria in Turin in February-March 2006; again on the experience of collaboration with Ronconi he wrote the volume “Gli infiniti di Ronconi” (2013) for “Scienza Express”. In 2014 he published the volume “What we talk about when we talk about cancer” for Raffaello Cortina, together with Gianfranco Peluso; of 2017, for Laterza, “Interview on Science and Revolution. The ethics of the rebel”, with Giulio Giorello; always together with Giulio Giorello, but for il Mulino, in 2019 he published “Errore”, in the series, “parole contratempo”; in June 2021, for Meltemi, “Rigor and Imagination”, an interview with Paolo Fabbri on the effectiveness of semiotics.
Since 2009, scientific director of “Et caetera consulting srl”, since 2019 of “Pino Donghi Communication” he was the editor of the Trento Economics festival from 2010 to 2014 and, in the same period, he followed the creation of the Festival of Law of Piacenza, of Lezioni di Storia (Editori Laterza), of the first edition of “La Repubblica delle Idee” (Bologna 2012) and editor, together with Barbara Gallavotti, of “Quadrivio. 4 Evenings between science and music” for the Rome Auditorium. Since 2007, scientific director of Libroscopio (Noicattaro-Bari); from 2015 to 2018 co-scientific director and editor of the Bologna Medical Science Festival; since 2016 he has curated the “Mathematical Dialogues” series for the Mulino (with appointments in Rome, Bologna, Turin); in 2016 he created and curated the first edition of the L’Aquila Participation Festival; in 2017 he curated the exhibition “Lezioni di Revolution” for the Feltrinelli Foundation; since February 2018 it has started a collaboration with the Order of Doctors and Dentists of Bologna on the topic of “doctor-patient communication”. Since June 2018 he has been responsible for the editorial series “Formules to read the world” for the Il Mulino publishing house. The most recent positions include that of Artistic Director of the Fasano Science Festival (Bari); the role of senior editor for the contents of an Open data portal of the State Accounting Office (MEF); that of Editor for the “Prolusioni” series of the EUM-University of Macerata; that of editor for the “Dialogues of Women in Corriera” (Bari, on behalf of the Le Donne in Corriera association); the collaboration with ENI-Scuola for the promotion of STEM degrees; collaboration with the European Parliament on the topic of voting propensity.
From 2004 to 2010, as a contract professor, he taught “Psychosocial models of science communication” at the University of Bergamo, and held courses at the Luiss in Rome, the University of Pavia, the Statale of Milan and Sapienza-University From Rome.
Since May 2021 he has collaborated with the “online magazine” Doppiozero (https://www.doppiozero.com/); since April 2022 he has been a collaborator of La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno.
In February 2022, for Scienza Express, he published his first novel, “Three Centimeters Behind the Eyes”, winner of the City of Como International Literature Prize, 1st place in the “Edited Fiction” section (October, 2022)
Married since 1986 to Jo (Josephine) Wennerholm, he lives in Frascati and plays the tenor sax.