An architect and designer, he has won many prizes, designing objects, places and spaces all over the world. He has never stopped experimenting and observing everything that surrounds us. Michele De Lucchi has decided to take part in the creation of the 100 globes of Weplanet, “a fine project that makes the great ball of fire on which we stand its central focus.”

De Lucchi will contribute the globe of iSempreVivi, a non-profit organization that offers care for people suffering from mental illness. He met with the young people of the association at the Atelier degli artisti to talk about the project. “Plate tectonics – the architect says – is the theory according to which all dry land, the continents, Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia, and all the islands of the Pacific, were a single large island in the middle of a single, enormous ocean.” The super-continent was called Pangaea and the super-ocean Panthalassa, De Lucchi continues, “and it was so at the end of the Paleozoic Era, about 250 million years ago. Pangaea began to break up starting in the Mesozoic Era, and this process is still in motion: the separation and drift of the plates is the origin of the present configuration of the continents, the oceans, civilizations, ways of thinking and interpreting reality and its opposite.” So the globe will link back to this narrative: “Mondo Pangea will be the reconstruction of the image of the planet in that happy time when lands, oceans, men and nature were one and the same. It makes us hope that at the end of this drift it will be possible to return to being a single continent, a single nation, a single humanity.”