MAKING KNOWN, COMMUNICATING
by AGOSTINO COLLA
We often hear debate, in these very turbulent and anguished times, about what the function of communication can be. Whether verbal or written, it allows everyone, horizontally, to get an idea about daily events and consequently give an opinion on them.
Our magazine has had this in its DNA for more than 35 years and this year this doing and expressing opinions is certainly supported by the #GO 2025 event and the articles seen so far in our magazine seem to follow the expectations of the European Capital of Culture. This attitude demonstrates its effectiveness precisely because it acts as a means and tool to ensure that this task is not only carried out in the best possible way but that allows it to be the form and content for a dialogue that can not only remain on paper for the reader’s use but so that it can convey future common initiatives between our two city realities.
So the magazine has the opportunity to be not only a place of communication and in-depth analysis, but a tool to host more and more collaborators who can compose with the most diverse voices that set of tiles that create the mosaic of our reality, whose vision is completed by every story, language, corner and place of observation, as Miha Kosovel rightly states, co-editor of this journal. The vision of all these individual tiles, perhaps different from each other, allows you to observe the entirety of the complete picture. All the contributions expressed so far have played a fundamental role in trying to tell the story of the places and define their contours. The singular structure of each article demonstrates not only the sensitivity of the author, but makes explicit the main function for which a unique journal was born many years ago.
The enlargement of the Gorizia editorial staff combined with that of Novogorica expresses a concept dear to the multiculturalism of these lands. I believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that our dear founder and director Dario Stasi would be rightly proud of the turn that this publishing reality demonstrates with facts. The attention given by loyal readers who continue to follow the cultural proposals expressed issue after issue is an evident fact. The presentations made, now at the Kulturni Dom in Gorizia and now at the Maks in Nova Gorica, demonstrate this. The intervention of the regional media both with the press and on TV show precisely this renewed interest and are a further stimulus to future proposals that will find space in its pages. We also remind you that, thanks to the QRcode in the paper version, it is possible, by accessing the Web, to obtain a simultaneous translation into Slovenian/Italian for the articles written in the mother tongue by the editors and obtain a translation into German and English for them. A further step forward, not only for our open editorial staff, will soon be to propose issue after issue, the theme or problems to be addressed in the next issue; in such a way as to give the opportunity to more and more subjects who, stimulated by the same or by them, want to express an opinion and give further substance to the quality of the journal. This issue, in particular, expresses various and articulated positions on the theme of the mountains. Writings and photographs will tell a theme that is dear to many people in these places. The relationship of the people of these lands with the mountains and their peculiarities and problems has always been a deep and heartfelt relationship. I would like to thank two people, two young people – Katarina Visintin and Peter Abrami – who with their extreme availability, ability and freshness of ideas have really given an extra gear to the renewed start of Isonzo Soča. It is not a form of self-satisfaction with the magazine, but a recognition that comes from the results collected so far and highlighted by the positive feedback received by the same.
Happy reading to all.