**The Lectio has been cancelled**

Michele Amadò’s Lectio Magistralis, entitled Che fine hanno fatto le “Lacrime di San Lorenzo”. Perché la filosofia e la poesia alla SUPSI? (What happened to the “Tears of St. Lawrence”. Why philosophy and poetry at SUPSI?), allows us to question the indispensable contribution that these disciplines make to a university of applied sciences, experience and practicality. 

Amadò concludes his long and valuable 28-year career at SUPSI and the Department of Environment Constructions and Design, where he taught on the Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication programme and where he still teaches “Principles of exhibition design” on the Bachelor of Arts in Interior Architecture programme. 

The conference will be introduced by Franco Gervasoni, SUPSI General Director, with a laudatio by Pietro Vitali, Head of the Bachelor of Arts in Interior Architecture.

The event, in Italian, is open to the public and free of charge. 
It will be held on Monday 24 November 2025 at 17:30 at the Department of Environment Constructions and Design Campus in Mendrisio (via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15) in the Sala polivalente (ground floor). 
Refreshments will be served at the end.

Please register by Monday 17 November.

Michele Amadò

After graduating in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Viterbo, he obtained a degree in Philosophy from the University of Perugia, then a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He has taught Aesthetics and Sociology of Art (Academy of Fine Arts in Viterbo), History of Western Thought (Scuola per operatori sociosanitari in Mendrisio), Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, Lugano). At the Department of Environment Constructions and Design SUPSI, he taught Aesthetics, Methodology and Art History, and still teaches Principles of exhibition design. He also taught Visual communication at the USI in Lugano for twenty years. He is the author of several essays and has edited publications on artistic, historical, aesthetic and philosophical topics. He chairs the Visual arts subcommittee of the Cultural advisory commission (Department of Education, Culture and Sport of the Canton of Ticino).