{"id":690,"date":"2026-08-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/la-nazione-delle-piante-imparare-dalla-vita-che-coopera-stefano-mancuso\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:00:00","slug":"la-nazione-delle-piante-imparare-dalla-vita-che-coopera-stefano-mancuso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/la-nazione-delle-piante-imparare-dalla-vita-che-coopera-stefano-mancuso\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nation of Plants \u2013 Learning from a life of cooperation | Stefano Mancuso"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-690-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/111cf21e8\/podcast\/play\/124673465\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-24%2F430457019-44100-2-f452913f7139e.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/111cf21e8\/podcast\/play\/124673465\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-24%2F430457019-44100-2-f452913f7139e.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/111cf21e8\/podcast\/play\/124673465\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-24%2F430457019-44100-2-f452913f7139e.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>What if building more vibrant communities means learning something from plants?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of\u00a0<strong>Tra pagine e legami<\/strong>\u00a0we explore\u00a0<em>The Nation of Plants<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Stefano Mancuso<\/strong>\u00a0to discover a world that thrives through\u00a0<strong>adaptation, cooperation, decentralisation and distributed intelligence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Plants do not build pyramids. They do not entrust everything to a single centre. They distribute functions, respond to their environment, form connections and survive through the web of relationships they inhabit.<\/p>\n<p>And inevitably, the question turns back to us.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf31\u00a0<strong>How healthy are the roots of our communities?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are we genuine communities, or systems that function only while someone keeps them together?<\/p>\n<p>Digital life raises the same challenge: we have built a network, yet often recreated pyramids within it.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps nature can suggest another way:<\/p>\n<p><strong>less hierarchy, more collaboration.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Less centralisation, more shared responsibility.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Fewer mere connections, more relationships.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa7\u00a0<strong>Season two \u2013 Remaining human in our common home | Episode 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An episode about\u00a0<strong>nature, community, relationships and the techno-relational approach<\/strong>, with a question to carry with us:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are we using connections to build communities, or simply multiplying contacts without truly learning to cooperate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\u00a0<em>Tra pagine e legami<\/em><br \/><strong>fr@ncesco<\/strong><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E se per capire come costruire comunit\u00e0 pi\u00f9 vive dovessimo imparare\u2026 dalle piante? In questa puntata di\u00a0Tra pagine e legami\u00a0entriamo ne\u00a0La nazione delle piante\u00a0di\u00a0Stefano Mancuso\u00a0per scoprire un mondo capace di vivere attraverso\u00a0adattamento, cooperazione, decentramento e intelligenza diffusa. Le piante non costruiscono piramidi. Non affidano tutto a un unico centro. Distribuiscono funzioni, reagiscono all&#8217;ambiente, creano connessioni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}