本次会议在意大利都林市举行，都灵市建设有孔子学院，该市向来注重中国文化研究。本次会议聚集了建筑界和风水学界的相关学者，是一次高规格的国际会议。

 Feng Shui, a Chinese ancient art, devised to deine the best positions for the tombs of emperors, studies
the relationship that exists between places and the human beings that inhabit them.
Over millennia Feng Shui practice has evolved, becoming an important reference for the construction
and planning of buildings, government buildings, monuments, and entire cities.
For the irst time in Italy, Feng Shui and Environmental Sustainability will be discussed in the light of
both Oriental and Western knowledge of architecture, design and town planning.
For three days, Masters of Feng Shui - from all over the world, aicionados, architects, designers and city
planners, will study closely the principles employed in the Far East and compare them to the modern
discipline of Environmental Sustainability.
But, just what is the relationship between Environmental Sustainability and Feng Shui? The answer is
implied in the variables that have always been central to the process of urbanisation: territory, man and
climate. So the various practices of Feng Shui and Environmental Sustainability have become essential
instruments in the establishment of balance between environment & nature and environment & man:
this deines architecture not as the imposition of man onto nature, but rather as a visible harmony
between the two.
The “mission” of the Conference and of the new Italian Feng Shui Society is to create an international
platform for the difusion of a culture of quality living which combines the ancient wisdom of Feng Shui
with Western knowledge, from Geomancy to Environmental Sustainability.
Also, to extend to all ive Continents the possibility of a meeting between diferent cultures each in
their diferent ways committed to sustainable living, which involves everyone in the process of redesi-
gning our global future.
The immediacy of these ideas and the uniqueness of the event mean that we anticipate a large turnout
in Turin, a city rich in culture and charm, which, after the success of the Winter Olympic Games in 2006,
is again at the forefront of the world stage as World Design Capital 2008.