ODISSEA TERRA
Odissea Terra is a project promoted by Fondazione Pesenti Ets, with the support of Italmobiliare Investment Holding, aimed at spreading awareness and stimulating participation and concrete actions regarding the sustainability of our future and our planet.
Against an international backdrop where the voices of institutions, representative associations, and businesses that question the charted path of sustainable development, mistakenly pitting sustainability, growth, and competitiveness against each other, it is crucial to maintain a high focus on the most pressing ESG challenges through knowledge, dialogue, and participation.
If we believe that human beings are not meant merely to exploit what surrounds them, but to grow, evolve, and build a better future while respecting the environment, then we must ask ourselves what “sustainability” really means.
Is it just an abstract concept, or can it be the driving force that pushes us to change course, to rediscover our direction—our Ithaca?
From these reflections, a fundamental truth emerges: Odissea Terra concerns all of us, and to shape a future built on sharing, opportunity, dreams, and hope, it is essential to undertake a journey of awareness guided not by opinions, but by science.
Odissea Terra is an outreach project aimed at those who want to become agents of change and which, in its initial phase, presented four conferences and a series of podcasts produced by Fondazione Pesenti Ets and Fondazione Corriere della Sera. The challenge, like modern Ulysses, is to set out on a journey to find our way back to a sustainable future. The challenge, like modern Ulysses, is to set out on a journey to find our way back to a sustainable future.
Odissea Terra – Visionaries
One year after its launch, Odissea Terra continues its journey with a new chapter dedicated to Visionaries: individuals, leaders, and contemporary thinkers who are able to look beyond the immediate horizon, interpret the contradictions of our time, and transform insight and responsibility into tangible opportunities for change.
These are not abstract figures or people detached from reality, but individuals who combine vision with pragmatism and who are capable of making visible what has yet to emerge and of pointing towards new directions when the present appears uncertain.
In this sense, being visionary is not about pursuing utopian ideals. It is about turning ideas into pathways, aspirations into strategies, and values into measurable impact.
The aim of the Visionaries project is precisely this: to offer examples that can open up new paths—not to celebrate individual achievements, but to turn them into a source of collective guidance.
In this way, each encounter becomes another stage in a journey that does not seek simple answers, but rather the tools to understand the present with greater depth, awareness, and responsibility.
