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Italian culture: The need for emancipation from political dynamics

The recent incident involving the former Minister of Culture, Sangiuliano, risks slowing down public and private investments in the cultural and creative industries cluster, a sector of paramount importance for the country’s economic and social development. This situation highlights an…

The eARTh project

In a world brimming with complexities and challenges, the power of art to educate, illuminate, and foster empathy remains a beacon of hope. As humanity grapples with the unfolding climate crisis, the need to transcend conventional educational boundaries and employ…

The diffuse museum: art, territorial identity, social practices and the narration of places. The MUDIAC Project.

The aim of this paper is to provide a contribution on cultural projects aiming at territorial identity and narration, tools capable of generating sustainable social flows. The use of space and territory as a diffuse museum allows for barrier-free, free-access…

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Strengthening tourism ethnocentrism in emerging tourism destinations

The Tafter Journal editorial board has selected this article as one of the most interesting among the journals affiliated with DOAJ – The Directory of Open Access Journals. Read the full article Despite the importance of tourism ethnocentrism in…

The global music landscape, the role of record companies, and ongoing innovations in the industry

This is a summary of the IFPI Global Music Report 2024 on the state of the global music industry. Like previous editions, it provides an overview of the main music revenues in 2023 and highlights some representative artists in the industry…

Commercial Districts and Corporate Planning: an international review

The literature review aims at representing the different applications of the concept of the Trade District by comparing similar experiences on an international level (North-America, Western Europe, South Africa, Japan). The framework of the Trade District, globally, is acknowledged in…

Fig. 9 Cultural network: re-reading of the territory. There is a wide mesh network that consists of the only goods that are actually recognized within the Valley, polarizes towards the centers of Sora and Cassino

Knowledge and exploitation of local resources: the historical centers of the Comino Valley

This contribution is focused on an area located in the southern area of the Lazio region called “Valle di Comino” that has valuable characteristics from an environmental and historical construction point of view. It’s part of a wider research path…

Mind the Gap

The cultural sector needs managers. There is no other reason why the cultural sector is not the great thing of this era. The entire sector has changed since Europe acknowledged culture as one of the most interesting future industries. Analyses,…

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Instability of the imaginary and media power between old new cultural industries

There is a strong perception of insecurity in Italy because of various more or less recent phenomena such as terrorism, immigration, unemployment, and then again, an economic crisis, a pandemic and an unexpected war that never seem to end. Events…

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Reinventing the wheel: why museums should learn more about their visitors

Have you ever wondered why everybody underlines the relevance of private information and privacy policies? One of the most astonishing answers could be that personal information is important to those who want to sell you a product or a service.…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Large-scale urban regeneration threatening historic urban landscapes. The Liverpool Waters development and the loss of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The city of Liverpool has undergone repeated processes of urban transformation and urban regeneration over the last half a century. The city has been a test bed for urban experimentation with mass clearance, housing, and relocation schemes in the 1970s…

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Giving new function to heritage building, and it is still a failure?! The case study of an unsuccessful transformation of a historic house to a multifunction cultural center in downtown Budapest

Change is essential to sustaining heritage sites, enabling them to meet new uses and evolving expectations, goals, and requirements. Rehabilitation for reuse is one of the steps to be considered in order to safeguard architectural heritage. [1] In this context…

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Contemporary art and enterprise in the suburbs of Milan. The emergence of artistic geographies?

How do artistic geographies emerge in certain territories? How does the entanglement of art and enterprise reflect the artistic geography of a territory? These are some of the research questions that this article aims to address by focusing on the…

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How sublime theory could teach us when an urban renewal project could really work

In 2005, in “A discussion between two architects”, Gharib Abbas and Bahram Shirdel, defined the expression “post-contemporary”, as a “forward-looking aesthetic philosophy distinguished by a re-constructive, global, human ethos which posits that the aesthetic experience is universal to humanity and…

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Connected refugees: (liquid) surveillance or computer management of migration?

In the time of covid-19, a lack of data can mean social invisibility, the cancellation of fundamental rights, and death. In the current political and pandemic climate, in Italy, in Europe, and other countries around the world the migration discourse…

Culture for humans: education, psychology and health

Framing the socially invisible: a transdisciplinary gender analysis of two documentary films on jazz

The article focusses on the analysis of two documentary films by Ramon Tort: A film about kids and music. Sant Andreu Jazz Band (2012) and Andrea Motis. The silent trumpet. A story about the suc-cess of simplicity (2018). The first…

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Culture and War: more than an aristocratic pastime

In this number of Tafter Journal, we will not cover war reflections neither we will talk about the claimed relevance of culture within the overall geopolitical equilibrium. We’re rather covering reflections and stories about two of the main derivative topics…

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“γνῶθι σαυτόν” Technology as tools for inclusive museums: Liquid museum experience

The accessibility is one of the most important stuff for museums and often is replaced with “inclusion” because involves in holistic way all museum life in general. Thanks to digital accessibility the museums join the visitor’s technologies behaviours and improve…

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What Big Data Is and How Can We Use It

In recent years, we have witnessed an exponential growth of the amount of data we are generating. As an example, consider the numbers depicted in Figure 1, that shows what happens in one minute in Internet, for both the years…

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Culture is coming, maybe.

It’s clear that in the next years, our society will experience a great technological shift: there is plenty of great-new-things next door, and most of them are based upon one word: “content”. It is the case of the metaverse or…

Creating Culture

Music Industry: between indie productions and innovative startups

In these times we used to talk about every kind of art expression as performative acts: for visual arts and also for music. Like all performing art, also music introduces itself as a theatrical experience, an all encompassing and communal…

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Enabling Culture in enabling development

This number of Tafter Journal reflects on “music”, and “music industry” as two distinct but, after all, clearly connected phenomena, by highlighting the mutual relationship between "contemporary cultural content" and "contemporary cultural industry". Since human beings became citizens of a…

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Boosting gender equality through music production. A case study on two Italian female brass bands

The new centrality of the cultural and creative sectors in the socio-economic development of contemporary capitalist societies has brought to acknowledge arts and culture as a fundamental asset for territorial development. The debate has mostly focussed on the potential role…

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IVIPRO: Narrating Italy through Videogames

Videogames can become the way to discover the world that surrounds us: this is the premise of the Italian Videogame Program project. IVIPRO is a national and cross-regional project, working closely with all local institutions. On one hand, we are…

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The medium does not equal the message

While Europe is involved in facing the social and economic difficulties heightened by the pandemic, there are several innovations that are ready to be implemented and to be part of our daily lives. Among them, public debate pays great attention…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Museum’s self-financing capacity: axes of development to increase Italy’s 1.737 billion euros worth cultural heritage self-generated income.

In Italy, performance measures linked to museums’ self-financing capacity have been systematically disregarded, as cultural heritage has been traditionally considered as a sector incapable of being a State’s profit generating asset. This article aims at outlining innovative revenue streams that…

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When a company becomes a book. A glance at the phenomenon of corporate monographs in Italy

The paper investigates the phenomenon of company books, published by enterprises and other kind of organisations to narrate their corporate history and activities. Such publications, conceived according to several possible disciplinary standpoints, narrative approaches and expressive languages, represent a very…

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Reality calls to a new interpretation of culture

In Italy, one of the most widespread interpretations of the cultural role in our lives and societies, affecting also the interpretation of cultural heritage and production, tends to create a visible division between the role of public bodies and private…

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Communicating archaeology to everyone.

Cultural Heritage does not represent a value in itself, but it rather embodies a relational value: an archaeological site, for instance, is whatever value the civil society and the community of reference give to it. The communication of the meaning…

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Versus the superstars

In discussing the general influence of economic progress on value, Alfred Marshall wrote: The relative fall in the incomes to be earned by moderate ability... is accentuated by the rise in those that are obtained by many men of…

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Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage

In the wide framework of cultural resources present on a territory, there are still instruments and assets that, for multiple reasons, do not enter in traditional mixed offer of a city or a region. Ecclesiastical cultural heritage is often part…

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Should the Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage play a major role in the cultural offer of a territory?

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The emerging industries in our complex scenario

In 2019, the European Panorama for Cluster published the report “Emerging Industries: Driving strength in 10 cross-sectoral industries". Even though the social and economic conjuncture changed rapidly for the Covid-19 pandemic, this report highlights some structural features of our economic…

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R&D in creative industries: some lessons from the book publishing sector

Introduction Creative industries (CIs) deserve an ever increasing interest in recent years. Opportunities of economic wealth, growth and jobs creation at local level are identified as key factors (Henry, de Bruin, 2011; Piergiovanni et al., 2012) and recent research has…

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Intercultural and institutional sociology. Attempts at integration within the information society.

In a global modernity, individuals and communities from different parts of the world are now able to build new models and aspirations at the same time thanks to the opportunities offered by new communication tools that constantly provide resources for the definition of individual…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Price-fixing models for art fairs: reflections on sustainability.

The contribution highlights the main insights of my M.Sc thesis’ research conducted in 2019. It focuses on the widely debated art market issue of the ever more unsustainable costs for the small-medium sized galleries to attend art fairs. Even though…

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How the art market should look like?

COVID-19 affected numerous dimensions of our lives, and, among them, it affected the cultural and art market too. In every place of our planet brilliant minds are considering the proper reactions to the pandemic-crisis under every aspect of our economic…

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Kunstmatrix: online platforms to support the art market

What are the real ef fects of this global crisis on art galleries and all of the art market players today? Is it prolonging their online activity by the use of platform and digital tools? What we were expecting was…

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Museums and Storytelling: From the last trends to the future

In 2010, Kelly found that museums’ adult visitors were deeply aware of their learning preferences and that they wanted experience both educational and entertaining. On a more general scale, LaPlaca Cohen “Culture Track Report 2014” reveals how the meaning itself…

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Does storytelling kill stories?

Just a few years ago, the word storytelling in the Italian cultural world was barely acknowledged. In recent times, however, this term knew an unquestionable success, soon becoming a “must do” for every practitioner or academic researcher in cultural related…

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The future art of storytelling: Future Fabulating in Madeira Island

The practice of predicting the future has a long history, ranging from personal consultation in the patterns of coffee grounds to global computational projections derived from vast sums of data. The longing for a vision of the future offering some…

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Tech-derived knowledge could help our cities

Obviously, this is not a new idea. Since years, We daily hear about new technologies could help us in creating a better environment, through the analysis of data that users generate. Big data, small data, data harvesting, data mining are…

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*UrbanSensing: listening to the digital city

*UrbanSensing is a two year funded European Union project, it involves six European Partners, that all contribute their specific expertise and skills in the fields of the project. The project will bring a new product to the urban design, city…

Artists and illustrations

Marco Goran Romano

Marco Goran Romano is an italian award winning illustrator. He currently works in his studio located in Jesi, a little town in the heart of Italy, where he had co-founded a type-centered studio called Sunday Büro with his wife and business…

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La danse de l’oeuf politiques

Political Egg Dance – Frankfurter Lantern – 1863

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Fragmented We Stand

Rephrasing the famous quote can sketches the picture in which Western world has found itself recently, especially Europe and the Americas. Since the end of 2016, a wave of political and social fragmentation has been sweeping at least two of…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Taxation and the Art Market

The Italian art market grows poorly and, in any case, more slowly than the world market. One of the reasons for this stagnation is undoubtedly the presence of an anachronistic tax legislation that seems to respond to mere revenue logics.…

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Culture is Complex, and we must have strategies.

There is no doubt that cultural development requires a strategic approach. Worldwide, urban areas are experiencing a process significantly different from the merely expansive path that public administration and private investors have longly prompted over the XX century. Nowadays, growth…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Impact of Urban Regeneration on Housing Satisfaction: A comparative study in Iran and Turkey

This paper investigates housing satisfaction in regeneration projects and emphasizes on the fundamental attributes which mainly influence inhabitants’ well-being. In this respect, two urban regeneration projects in Tehran, Iran and Ankara, Turkey were selected and a qualitative approach was used…

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Local Conflicts and the NO-TAP Protest

This paper is about the local conflict which emerged in Apulia, and more exactly in the province of Lecce, as a form of opposition to the major project known as TAP (Trans-Adriatic Pipeline), aimed at transporting Azeri natural gas to…

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Museum Archaeological Collection Storage: reassessing needs and priorities

A museum does not survive if it does not preserve its works. The tools and places essential for preserving the works are the storages (Mottola Molfino 1991). Unfortunately, despite the ever-increasing attention paid to museums, the storage plays a marginal…

Artists and illustrations

Kyo Boum An

I was born in 1973, and my parents were farmers. In 1999, I got enrolled into an art college with a dream of becoming an artist. I am currently a father, a husband, and a painter.…

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The dark sides of culture

Barbara Kruger, in one of her famous artworks affirms: When I hear the word culture, I take out my checkbook. This provocation well evokes a wide range of associations related to culture: theatres, music performances, artworks, and so on. Another…

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When quality measures the distance between valorization and commodification

There is a shared vision which wants that every kind of good and service can be transformed in a product. It doesn’t matter what kind of good or service is. This perspective is not so bad as it could sound…

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Sociology of dissent: American Beatniks and pre-sixty-eight Europe

In the Fifties of the XX century, American provincial and urban roads were occupied by “groups of vagrants”, who theorized an unusual “on the road” culture with their own ethics and their own “way of life”. The assault on culture…

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Mapping Street Art

Mappi[Na] Street Art Contest In this number of Tafter Journal, the usual illustration has been substituted with a picture of a street-art work uploaded on http://www.mappi-na.it/#/ More information available here Street art is the form of art that…

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The Ministry Organization after the introduction of the recent reform

The law number 5 of 29 January 1975 instituted the Ministero per I Beni e le Attività Culturali e Ambientali[2]. Its original tasks were related to the conservation and valorization of artistic heritage and natural beauties. In 1998, the denomination…

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Cultural Heritage between administrative organization and non-for-profit initiative

Italian Cultural Heritage is worldwide acknowledged. Artworks, Archaeological Sites, Museums and even whole cities are by now part of the collective imaginary. In spite of this, there are several criticalities characterizing Italian Cultural Heritage. Most of them are the results…

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Mapping Street Art

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Three ideas for further reflection from ICCPR 2018

This article discusses some thought-provoking papers presented at the ICCPR2018. It looks first at the use of digital technologies in the art sector, with regard to data visualization and open data policies, identifying a huge untapped potential. Secondly, it opens…

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Made in Italy between «invention» and tradition. The hi-storytelling of past advertising and communication campaigns in the context of corporate historical archives and museums

Abstract The paper discusses some explorative research investigating the creative re-use of past advertising and communication campaigns in the context of corporate historical archives and museums. From a preliminary literature review, the research analyzed in the field the experiences…

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Tourism as a driver of cultural vibrancy in lesser known destinations: a link yet to be explored?

In recent years, culture and creativity have captured the attention of city-focused policymakers, managers, and academics due to their (still much argued) capacity to contribute to local economic prosperity. “Cultural vibrancy” (or “cultural vitality”, here used as synonyms) is a…

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Mapping Street Art

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Art Market in Western Balkan

Western Balkan as the art market space presents an abstract construction in the cultural policy discourses of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia and Croatia, approaching this concept in a relativistic way and changing the relationship between arts and…

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Street Art Contest

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Is culture “the new black” or the “last ideology”?

Europe is, nowadays a little weird concept, that assumes, day after day, everchanging Non-Euclidean shapes: Brexit, NGOs, boundaries and immigration are at the top of the Agendas of a Union that would have preferred pursuing objectives such as the "smart,…

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Art Market in Western Balkan

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Towards more open information : digital media as moral, civic and multicultural environments

In the new information society ,living in a global space, ideas, technologies, people, products are intended to move from one place to another, but remaining interconnected within an ambient where cultures increasingly more dynamic contact What emerges now is the…

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Tafter Journal Number 100

In recent years the world has totally changed. Many are still the persons who disbelieved the power of culture as a strategic tool for the development of entire economies and territories. Many understood it. Many have made of their lives,…

Culture and Tourism

Big-Data to understand touristic and cultural dynamics: a fractal framework.

The Big-Data revolution has been immediately accepted in several industries, in particular the military and defense industries, by various economic and social actors, usually linked to multinational corporations, as a fresh source of innovation. In the cultural sector, these new…

Artists and illustrations

Benedetta Fasson

Benedetta Fasson is a 25 years old girl born and raised in Verona. Benedetta studied, lived and graduated in Venice from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2017, then she moved to Urbino where she is…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

The Right to the city by Henry Lefebvre and tendencies to the anti-coercion of its exchange value. Reading hypothesis and analysis.

I believe that it is possible to carry on Lefebvre’s thought trying to fix the coordinates of a possible political economy of the metropolitan space, where there are some contrasting subjective regularities that restore the difference between isotopy and heteropia…

Artists and illustrations

Elia Barbieri

Illustrator and Graphic Designer based in Bologna. He loves to find strong concepts or strong minimal images to carry a message in a tricky surprising way. Among his latest collaborations there are…

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Ecclesiastical Museums: an important opportunity for cultural networks and territories

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Non-hype instruments for territorial development

As occurs in almost every branch of human activity, our sector is often influenced by trends that condition the work of academicians and practitioners. Today as yesterday, we assist to the explosion of tools whose impact could affect both the…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

L’Ososphère: Popular Music, Temporary Uses and Planning in Strasbourg France

This article focuses on the temporary activation via popular music of former industrial buildings awaiting redevelopment in Strasbourg, France. The renting out of lucrative areas for certain periods of time, either for continuous use or one-off events, to cultural entrepreneurs,…

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Does arts and culture have value? And which is it?

Should art be considered as a luxury and should artworks be considered as luxury goods? And, at the other end of the spectrum, should popular culture be understood as a scarce – and, therefore, costly – good? In general, we…

Artists and illustrations

Maria Clara Poggi

Maria Clara Poggi works as a storyboard artist and fashion illustrator for clients such Atelier Ferrè, Mc Cann Erikson and Leo Burnett. She’s been awarded with the Art Director’s Club (ADC) – International. After the Art-college and the European…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Taxation, a driver for the Art Market

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Susanna Spelta

Susanna’s born in 1976 in a small town near Cremona, Italy. Since childhood her biggest passion is drawing, and its power to transform reality in a fantastic and colors plenty world. After her studies in the Liceo…

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Users or Audience?

It’s sure. No doubt about it: this is the user’s era. This is what we daily learn when we try to understand how We’re trying to build our future. This is true when we talk about soft-industries, such as software…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Corporate Museums and design: Web communication strategies

Abstract The content of this article is the analysis of Web communication strategies used by corporate museums. The main goal of the research is to analyze the Italian corporate museum’s communication in order to first review the digital identity and…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

A Flexible User Centered Design Model for Social Housing Units

Dwelling is the most important spatial need for everyone and the basic determinant of dwelling is its users. This paper aims to underline the importance of human needs in determining the basic living environment by discussing the design methodology developed…

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Treasure Hunt as a strategic tool for audience development

“To the Congregation of the Oratory in Naples 250 ducati and for you, Dionisio Lazzari, at completion 1000 ducati as this much you have spent for marbles, mother of pearl, precious stones and more and in labor to build the…

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Audience development or audience empowerment? Let’s be contemporary.

As the President of the European Commission, Mr. Juncker stated in his State of the Union speech of Sept. 13th, Cultural Heritage is one of the pillars on which the new European House must develop. The opening of the House…

Artists and illustrations

Michele Attianese

Born in Castellammare di Stabia (NA) in 1976, He studeid painting and engraving at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. He is graduated in Architecture at the Federico II (Naples). He has always drawn, painted and cultivated a necessary…

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When the Greeks Loved the Germans: The Political Economy of King’s Otto Reign

In 1832 Prince Otto Wittelsbach of Bavaria was appointed King of the newly founded independent Greek state. Otto’s reign was a momentous period for Greece, initially under Regency then under Otto as an absolute ruler and from 1843 as a…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Quantifying Dance in a Capitalist Society

The ongoing debate on the social value of art and culture has been with us for some decades now. In the United States, this debate has taken place mostly within the art world itself, and in related political and administrative…

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Changes are afoot

Changes are afoot politically: rising tides of nationalism and populism, stunning election results, and loads of analysis to decipher when and how these movements came to be. Months after the Brexit vote, Britain now considers the specific and practical realities…

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Ecclesiastical Tourism and the Paradox of Happiness

At the first glance the following two contributions look rather diverse – hardly related. Alfonso Casalini writes on the role of catholic and religious cultural heritage and the need for the implementation of modern management tools, especially in the organization…

Artists and illustrations

MinJi Kang

The illustration of this number is a still from the short film Myo-A directed by MinJi Kang. The short film will be in the competition of Animavì: The international Festival of Poetic Animation Cinema that will be held…

Culture for humans: education, psychology and health

Desire and the Socratic Paradox of Happiness

If you are able to satisfy your desires you are happy; this is one of the many theories of happiness. The Socratic Paradox says that a virtuous person is always happy, regardless of his circumstances. An enigmatic proposition follows: You…

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The role of Catholic and Religious Cultural Heritage in an ambiguous era.

Today, we live in an ambiguous era. This is true under almost all the perspective we want to assume, but it is particularly true when we analyze the relationship with the religious and spiritual aspects. On the one hand we…

Artists and illustrations

Alessandra Scandella

Alessandra lives in Milan working with watercolor for advertising and publishing. In 2004 she co-founded Studio Container, in Milan, that deals with illustration, graphic design, web design,animation. Alessandra’s watercolors appear at Triennale di Milano. She works for Tod’s and…

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What will remain of the Days ?

Free entrance to museums on the first Sundays of each month seems to have been a great success till its launch in July 2014. It has seen the average increase of visitors throughout Italy of some 260thousand units per month…

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Museums’ visitors in Italy

In a country where cultural participation generates alarming negative numbers (in 2015, 68.3% of the Italian population has never entered a museum [1] ), it becomes crucial to understand the new public and study suitable strategies for a cultural proposal…

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Gamification Tourism

The tourism experience during a holiday or a trip is surely an amazing situation and, for some aspects, it could be compared to the gaming experience. Both of them, in fact, are characterized by the combination of positive emotions and…

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Abecedario. Come Proteggere e Valorizzare il Patrimonio Culturale Italiano

Abecedario is the new book written by Roberto Cecchi, architect and former Undersecretary of the Italian Ministry of Culture Heritage and Activities and Tourism, published by Skira. The book faces topics that are extremely interesting as well as relevant for…

Culture for humans: education, psychology and health

Culture Change: A neuroscientific Analysis

The art and health nexus has always existed, from art as a representation of healthy and sick body to art as a therapeutic tool, to accommodate an ecological conception of human-environment dynamics and becoming "context" in hospitals and healthcare facilities.…

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A call for a European Model of Culture

Recent events, such as the election of the provocateur Mr. Trump as President of United States, the increasing migrations phenomena or the rise of new forms of terrorism, ask for a concrete answer from Europe in one of most important…

Artists and illustrations

Valentina Biletta

Since 1997, Valentina Biletta is involved in creating and managing for kids and children. She is also engaged in realizing workshop for teachers proposing different artistic technique, creative activities through the re-usage of waste materials. Furthermore, she coordinates the artistic…

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The territory and the small museums: The Case of Piemonte

In the overview of the museum offer, are the “small museums” a separate category? What are the characteristics of a “small museum” and what are the specific necessities? What are the weaknesses and the strengths? The example of Piemonte shows…

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Giordano Poloni

Giordano Poloni is an Italian-born illustrator and motion graphic designer. Among his clients: Il Sole 24 Ore, RCS Rizzoli, Saatchi London, HSBC, Wired Italy. His works are regularly included in art exhibitions in Milan, Berlin and New York.…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Arts Management Industries and Value Creation

The increasing importance of the management in the Art Industries has focused the attention on the fundamental role of economic skills, but in order to manage a cultural organization a manager has to pay attention to other non-economic abilities. Everyday…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Taranto: a Social Innovation Lab

Since many years European policies have acknowledged culture as a key factor for the development of cities and regions and as a pillar of innovation and social cohesion (ECIA 2014; EU 2013). Nonetheless, it is not yet clear how to…

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The role of Cultural Management and its social and narrative relevance

In his last book La phrase urbaine, the French philosopher and author Jean Christophe Bailly wrote that the city is like a sentence whose meaning we can understand only if we know its grammar. The city is not only a…

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Reflections on the use of the territorial data and GIS in tourism: the Italian case

This paper focuses mainly on issues related to digital tourism with connection to the italian context, in an attempt to show the potentiality offered by the GIS for the development of the tourism sector. For this reason, it will be…

Culture for territorial development

Regaining Spaces and Territories. Reflections about the blank side of Italy

Just few years ago, Italy was a Country with more people than spaces. Nowadays, we’re living the opposite conditions: Italy is a Country full of spaces but without people. In Italy we build 8 meters per second, the urbanization rate…

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Transforming Historical Cities in Smart Cities by Using Geospatial Technologies

The term geospatial in the Anglo-Saxon world – but also in the scientific and technical Italian elite – is slowly replacing the word Gis, acronym of Geographic Information System. Geospatial is interpreted as a synonym of geographical notions, in a…

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Trust against fear. The Role of Culture and the Future of Europe

In a fragile political and economic framework, the attention to the role that culture can play in creating the bass for the future of Europe is growing rapidly. This paper investigates the impacts that culture create in several aspects of…

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Culture is Changing…Oops: already done!

Since the 90’s, the world looks astonished at the power of culture as a strategical tool for the development of entire economies and territories. However, in last years, culture, and better said, cultural economics in Italy (but not only in…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Development of marginal destinations: the case of Menfi

Abstract This paper aims to analyse the promotion development of Menfi’s territory. This paper fits the scientific debate about the critical role that Destination marketing and management play in the development of marginal destinations. This paper moves from a geographical…

Artists and illustrations

Fausto Montanari

Fausto Montanari is a freelance illustrator. After his first specialization as illustrator for children addressed products, He enlarged his interests, becoming even more involved in visual design and visual and video art. He is concerned about human being, and he…

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Damiano Groppi

Born in Codogno I live and work in Milan. I graduated as Illusrator designer at the Arte&Messaggio Institute after working as graphic designer for different company of visual design I now feel the need of dedicate my…

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Arts Equity

Diversity in the arts has been a topic of much discussion for many years and the discussion continues to become more profound, more nuanced, and more important. As Nina Simone stated, “An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is…

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Before Web-Marketing. Digital research for cities and cultural institutions

1. Cultural sites Online Visibility Online visibility of a a cultural site can be considered a strong indicator of the institutional ability to activate the cultural heritage. Hand in hand with the spread of the Internet and its penetration into…

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Oro Dentro. Un archeologo in trincea: Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Medio Oriente [1]

As shown by the ISIS attacks to the ancient cultural sites of Palmyra and Nimrud in 2015, cultural heritage in the areas of crisis is still today in great danger. Different reasons can explain why it becomes a fair game…

Creating Culture

Big Exhibitions 2010-2014: Institutions, Themes, Circulation. A Global Overview and the Case of Italy

Exhibitions are a central component of the contemporary art system, as one of the favourite tools for cultural distribution, attraction of public and visibility of cultural organisations. Important instruments for the communication of scientific results and new cultural views, they…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Architecture without Architects: How architecture can improve the development of decision-making skills in childhood

Rational and irrational thought have had mixed fortunes in the formulations of the greatest thinkers, philosophers or science men, the one overriding the other scene perfectly consistent with the historical reality that was there as a background. So the exaltation…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Sharing Economy: All of Us in Wonderland

Obviously, innovation is seen as very fashionable these days. With no surprise, we can search for “top innovators under 30”, “top start-ups to watch” and “top-gadgets” that can improve the way we live. These characterize the private sector well as…

Artists and illustrations

Fabio Delvò

I’m engineer. I live and work in Milan in the information technology consulting sector and as Illustrator, that’s my strong passion. Since 2015 I have followed an illustration workshop with Alessandra Scandella co-founder of the “Studio Container”…

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Culture and Citizenship

Most Italian cities, both big cities and small cities, are experiencing a sort of identity crisis, which is the result of different but convergent factors. The failure of the urbanistic vision as a virtuous urban development model. The unresolved relationship…

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Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability

Recently we can see several changes in our society but one of the most important is the transformation of human settlement systems. It is important to consider that for the first time in the history of the human, more than…

Culture for humans: education, psychology and health

A Babel for Children

Reflection moves from the analysis on today's relations between the art field and science. The dialogue between the two cultures, focused on reciprocity and the plurality of explanatory codes, it tries the emergence of a third culture, founded on knowledge…

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Poets: Born or Made? About the utility to preserve some doubts

Does the prenatal exposure to arts generates love and attitude for the arts? Individuals, that since the very childhood are used to be in harmony with nature, are more incline to become more interested in the environment topics? People living…

Artists and illustrations

Maja Wronska

Born on January 28th, 1989. Graduate of Warsaw University of Technology (Architecture faculty). I work as an architect and freelance illustrator. My drawings are strictly connected to the architecture so, for sure, architecture…

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Arts and strategic communication in Italy and Spain: from sponsorship to corporate responsibility

The paper investigates the rise of business communication strategies based on culture and arts in Italy and Spain. As previous researches demonstrate, cultural communication can work as a strategic asset to develop corporate identity and reputation, enabling organizations to cultivate…

Creating Culture

Playing the Networking Game: Why You Should Know That Artist Residencies Matter

Aspiring professional artists must undergo a tough struggle for the world to recognize them as such. Artists are increasingly required to follow qualifying academic and working career paths and are pushed to prove the originality and the necessity of their…

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Resilient Cities

Cultural Heritage as an opportunity for south-east European countries. Cities represent one of the most important global actors in the contemporary context. They are the interest point of political, social, cultural and economic forces that shape the built environment.…

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Pawel Kuczyinski

Pawe? Kuczynski was born in 1976 in Szczecin. In 2001 he graduated from the Department of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Pozna?. As an illustrator he has collaborated with different Polish press titles. He is a…

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Culture and life

Is not possible to start a discussion about culture without mentioning what in these days is scaring Europe: the IS terrorist attack in the heart of Paris is nothing but a menace to all of us. But there is also…

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The Governance of Metropolitan Areas in Italy: a Plan to Enhance Competitiveness

This paper aims to underline the need for a “metropolitan governance” in Italy with particular emphasis on the central area of Veneto region. Following on from a recent work by the authors Corò e Dalla Torre (2015) the “metropolitan issue”…

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“Open by vocation”: The Museum Salinas 2.0 and the sicilian anomaly in a social key

The archaeolgical museum Antonio Salinas in Palermo, closed for repairs, from a year up to the present has revamped his image thanks to social media and the adhesion to some campaigns as #invasionidigitali - #digitalinvasion, TN - and #museumweek, finding…

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Museums and Storytelling: From the last trends to the future

In 2010, Kelly found that museums’ adult visitors were deeply aware of their learning preferences and that they wanted experiences both educational and entertaining. On a more general scale, LaPlaca Cohen “Culture Track Report 2014” reveals how the meaning itself…

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The experience of the image in digital media. Reflections on today’s cognitive forms.

A red icon on a blue coloured background. Notification: Tom has shared a picture on your timeline. A ringtone and vibration, the phone’s screen lights up, a message appears: Richard has sent you a picture. The quantity of images that…

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Bone’s Territories: Territorial Heritage and Local Autonomy in Italian Inner Areas

“Areas in the bone” is not just a quote: it is the metaphor of the load bearing structure of Italy as well as the plastic representation of the marginalization process of the inner areas of the country that started from…

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Museum and Migration

Today is urgent to reflect about the integration of migration history in the museum spaces and narrative. Migration is a “complex condition of our contemporary society and a crucial component in the economic, cultural and social growth in Europe”.…

Artists and illustrations

Alessandra Oricchio

Alessandra Oricchio, alias Gas, is a young neapolitan artist who conferred a first class honours degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples in the “New Media Art” discipline, and in the same course she now collaborates as a…

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Culture and the Red Queen

Just at this moment, somehow or other, Alice and the red Queen began to run. They were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Made in Italy museums. Some reflections on company heritage networking and communication

Corporate museums arise today as a powerful identity medium for companies and brands representing Made in Italy worldwide. At the beginning of the new millennium, such cultural centers, preserving and communicating the Italian economic history, are extending their presence in…

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Valentina Gottardi

Valentina graduated in Architecture and in Visual Arts Design at the University IUAV of Venice. She attended the Master in Art and Culture Management at Hairbro – Trentino School of Management, and the “Nautilus” seminar at Studio Akoe. She attended…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

It happens in Turin. From Cascina Roccafranca to the “Case del Quartiere Network”

In the last 20 years Turin has gone through several radical transformations and changes. When we talk about that we can’t forget its passage from “industrial town” to “post-industrial town”, breaking away from its past. From automotive to baby-parking and…

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Nudging, Gamification and Paternalism

Paternalism assumes an authority that tries to influence the behavior of people under its guidance in order to improve the wellbeing of the latter. This can be implemented by more or less strict regulations limiting the set of alternatives to…

Culture for humans: education, psychology and health

Does Culture makes us happier – and healthier?

People’s happiness and wellbeing are undoubtedly at the center of today’s modern life – we could even dare to say that our generation is obsessed with the pursuit of happiness, with finding the perfect balance between our inner desires and…

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Does movie poetics dream of territories?

A concept we can not avoid in our days talking about culture and the direction we're heading towards is globalization. It stretches itself out like an umbrella surrounding cultural phenome-na in a way not experienced before, and its creations make…

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Libraries and Public Perception

The point of view of the author is to consider how libraries are perceived by national communities, on the background of the economic crisis of the latest year and the internet and social media penetration, in order to point out…

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The future art of storytelling: Future Fabulating in Madeira Island

Introduction The practice of predicting the future has a long history, ranging from personal consultation in the patterns of coffee grounds to global computational projections derived from vast sums of data. The longing for a vision of the future…

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Where is Berlin? Too many (virtual) walls shape the town and its communities

Whenever approaching a city for the first time there are different ways, patterns, walls, and stories to unearth its hidden string. I moved to Berlin in Ma, 2014 and suddenly, even before my arrival, I was already playing the most…

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Social media against travel authenticity

Introduction One fifth of the human population uses social networks and one third of world travelers access them during their vacations, especially to share experiences, info and pictures of the places that they are visiting, and to look up information…

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Measuring Cultures

Introduction The topic of the importance of being able to measure the impact (or better yet, the plural impacts) that cultural heritages and activities have on many different areas is one of the most discussed issues in Contemporary Economic literature.…

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Cultural Heritage and Value Creation. Towards new Pathways

“What do we mean by cultural heritage?” Is it the classical definition of “culture” relating to a purely material dimension still relevant, legitimizing the protection of “cultural heritage” as opposed to protection and enhancement? Is it perhaps time to reconsider…

Artists and illustrations

Alessia Mannini

She lives and works in Milan, where she completed her artistic and professional training. People who chose her illustration: Gaia Editore, LaScuola Editore, Corsiero Editore, Pirelli, Bayer, DHL, Unicredit, Eraclea, Citroen Finanziaria, Peugeot finanziaria, NewHairLine, Admiranda, Unilever, Disney, Sperlari,…

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Dear Readers, Colleagues and Friends,

From this number, Tafter Journal will enter in a new courage dimension. Even though, for strategic reasons, Monti&Taft will no longer be at the head of the journal, I will continue with pleasure and commitment in sustaining the evaluation activities…

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Alessia Minuto

Always passionate about visual art, she spents her entire life drawing. She has attended a three years course on Illustation at the European Institute of wedding dress Design in Turin. She loves Art, the sea and she is keen to…

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Culture Crash. The killing of the creative class

The financial crisis of 2008 and other changes in the economy and culture have had a pervading impact on the creative sector more than on any other field. Using an original style, which combines autobiographical elements with a deep knowledge…

Creating Culture

From the mirror to the screen: some videoart’s intuitions

After first experimentations of visual effects the video could generate, it became an introspective way to make art. An external device can show the artist to the artist, this is the point. So everything changed.

Culture and Tourism

The Booking Challenge: Tourism and the Sharing Economy

Today, the Internet plays a key role in the tourism sector. Contemporary travelers use the Web during all phases of traveling process: before the departure for inspiration, research, and booking; during the travel for local services and information; and after…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Cultural intelligence and internationalization: An approach to cultural and creative organizations

Cultural intelligence is defined as “a person’s capability for successful adaptation to new cultural settings, including cognitive, motivational and behavioral aspects”. This paper investigates how the adaptation processes recognized and studied in individuals can be applied to cultural and creative…

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Human interaction: the next digital revolution

In the digital age, why should we care about human interaction? The answer is neither simple nor obvious. The rise of new technologies has generated a flourishing debate about the pros and cons of a wide usage of the Internet,…

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Rossella Ferro

Nasce a Milano nel 1988. Frequenta il Liceo Artistico di Brera e in seguito il corso di scenografia presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Nel 2014 consegue il master di primo livello in illustrazione per l’editoria Ars in Fabula…

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China Cultural and Creative Industries Reports 2013

This book represents a very interesting collection of reports about the state of the art of the Cultural and Creative Industries in People’s Republic of China. Globally, in spite of the growing importance it plays in the national economy, the…

Creating Culture

The sound of poetry. The case of “Andata e Ritorno” Festival

We grow up being used to the idea that poetry is something boring. This scenario is luckily changing. There are a lot of poets who want to stay inside the modernity, want to write about it and above all they…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Impact of European-funded programme on London creative micro businesses economic performance and confidence

This paper provides an insight on the profiles of 400 creative businesses in London and the impact that a tailored, ERDF-funded business support programme had on their business performance and their confidence. It aims to provide a reflexion on the…

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Participation and cultural industries: drawing a way through collective and collaborative creation

Much has been said about co-creation and participation in cultural projects, but it seems that cultural industry is facing challenges trying to balance social impact and profitability. Participation offers powerful tools to foment development and to weaken individualism in the…

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Creative challenges

It may sound obvious: in order for creative products to conquer markets we need creativity; business creativity. In the last decade debates and books about creativity were multiplied, in the attempt at answering to crucial questions ranging from the definition…

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Martina Binosi

Nasce a Milano nel 1988. Per tutta l’infanzia disegna sui muri di casa e nel 2002 intraprende finalmente il percorso artistico iniziato con il Liceo e conclusosi con l’Accademia di Brera. Dal 2007 al 2009 partecipa a numerosi stage, workshop…

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The Market. Documents of Contemporary Art

Edited by Natasha Degen, “The Market. Documents of Contemporary Art” is an interesting anthology, which offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the evolution of the contemporary art market, its relation to value and its effect on artistic practice, taking into account…

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Innovation, Opportunity and Social Entrepreneurship

What actually makes a project or a company accountable with needs of society? And how the NGO or culture-driven organization could possibly avoid waste of resources and strive to deliver more socially responsible outcomes?

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The impact of globalization on cultural policy: insights and emerging trends from the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research 2014

This article discusses some thought-provoking papers, presented at the ICCPR2014, on the relationship between cultural policy and globalization. On the one hand, it looks at how globalization has an impact on national cultural policies with reference in particular to tax…

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The discovery of arts and culture as global communication media. High-visibility experiences in the Italian and international scenario

If the powerful symbolic language related to artistic heritage can be considered the most brilliant intuition by first patrons and sponsors, during the last years the Italian scenario shows a real rush toward high-visibility cultural projects by global corporations, associating…

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The role of culture in society

In an age of insecurity and inequality, the capacity of culture to generate positive impacts seems to be a certainty. Over the past years, an increasing number of studies have analysed the cultural and creative industries’ realm with the aim…

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Irene Acqua

Nasce a Sondrio nel 1987, frequenta il liceo artistico Gaudenzio Ferrari di Morbegno, la Scuola di Illustrazione del Castello Sforzesco e la Facoltà di Psicologia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano. Ha fatto tanti e diversi lavori come l’insegnante di disegno,…

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Fine Art and High Finance. Expert Advice on the Economics of Ownership

Written primarily but not exclusively for art investors, collectors and legal advisers, this book offers an interesting overview of the economic aspect of art ownership and at the same time could be considered a guide for those who want to…

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The advent of the Digital Era and, subsequently, of Media Culture has not only changed the way we think, act and interact with the world but also interfered with our more basic motor skills and the way our body operates…

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Staging the change?

The change required a different storytelling; the past order was being irreversibly abandoned, the new world seemed to grant a diffused welfare, if not happiness. Only creative artists could understand that such a change implied extremely high costs: the loss…

Creating Culture

Literature and Art: narrative paths for social-emotional education

Finally in Italy we are talking about social-emotional learning; #1oradamore is the name of the media campaign promoted by Italian journalists, artists, psychologists, researchers, and sociologists to promote the introduction of social-emotional education in Italian schools. To share feelings and…

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Managing change and intimacy in the present

Heraclitus is often cited as the source of the quote, “The only constant in life is change.” This seems to ring true now, more than ever, as advances in technology rapidly change our cultures: the ways we communicate and express…

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Martina Troise

Nasce a Napoli il 30 novembre del 1975. Consegue gli studi presso l’Istituto d’arte e l’Accademia di Napoli e partecipa al corso di disegno naturalistico, tenuto da Lorenzo Dotti presso l’Università Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli. Tiene numerosi corsi di…

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Pioneering Minds Worldwide. On the Entrepreneurial Principles of the Cultural and Creative Industries

More than 30 authors in 17 countries are the “pioneering minds”, who lead readers to the exploration of the “Entrepreneurial Principles of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs)”. Even if CCIs play a key role in the European and global…

Creating Culture

Is the architect an artist? Reconsidering the role of architects

Throughout this essay various possible conceptions of art and their relationship with architects’ responsibilities towards the community and their power in the creation of cities, will be considered. And the question on whether an architect is an artist will certainly…

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The regional turn of the European Capital of Culture and its traits in France, Germany, and Poland

Policies to strengthen urban regions play today a major role in the implementation of key objectives such as improving competitiveness of the EU territory, or achieving its territorial cohesion. A remarkable point in case here is the European Capital of…

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Towards a “Creative Ravenna”. Capitalising on the European Capital of Culture process to build a Culture and Creative Industries’ strategy

Ravenna, with its rich cultural and artistic heritage, its economic and social fabric as well as the political will to invest in culture, has the potential to design its future with the support of art and culture and contribute to…

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European Capitals of Culture: structures and infrastructures

Culture and territory. A pair with an ancient but actual flair. A binomial that a growing number of public managers choose as the asset to economic development and to increase the quality of life, like in Qatar, where culture has…

Artists and illustrations

Paola Pappacena

Si è diplomata alla scuola del fumetto di Milano. Ha collaborato con compagnie di teatro per ragazzi alla realizzazione di scenografie e locandine degli spettacoli, e alla gestione di laboratori ludico creativi nelle scuole e nelle biblioteche. Come illustratrice ha…

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Il turismo culturale europeo. Prospettive verso il 2020

La cultura può fungere da volano per le destinazioni turistiche e contribuire allo sviluppo sostenibile della comunità locale. Ne sono segni evidenti il ruolo centrale che essa va assumendo nella vita comunitaria quale fattore capace di innalzare la qualità della…

Creating Culture

Paint before the police come!

Street art is challenging the world of art, its set of rules and its commercial system as few art movements in the past.

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American Museums versus Italian Museums online: are they so dissimilar?

Not unlike Italy, the cultural institutions of the United States are part of a prism returning different shades of quality in managing new digital tools. Let us take social media as an example for all: when asked to specify the…

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How to deal with an increasing western-focused world?

The present world, dominated by high-speed information, easy access to knowledge and powerful cross-fertilisation of cultures, could on one hand ideally favour social and cultural integration by putting in contact different cultures, but on the other hand the shared feeling…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Price management. Working on the supply could be our chance

It is not easy to establish the admission price to museums and monuments. Different cultures suggest singular methods at this matter. Although the global scenario tends to allocate to goods a specific price which is directly commensurate to its value,…

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Do the arts dream of society? The secret war of languages

Whenever I think, speak or write about the arts the crucial knot of my analysis is knowledge. Of course emotion is important, as well as some intellectual pride, but knowledge gives the flavour to the whole system. It is well…

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Silvia Bolognesi

Silvia Bolognesi è una illustratrice e grafica freelancer che attualmente vive a Rotterdam, in Olanda. Si laurea in Scenografia per il Melodramma nel 2009 e nel 2011 in Illustrazione per l’Editoria all´Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. Vive anche in…

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Il valore del museo

Dopo un’analisi relativa a diversi modelli di rendicontazione, il libro propone il modello del valore, che si pone nella “terra di mezzo” degli approcci alla gestione del museo attualmente utilizzati. L’istituzione museale è analizzata attraverso tre lenti: standard per il…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Why we should look at space, and more closely at cities

The importance of space in the critical study of society is finally being increasingly recognized after centuries of neglect, mainly thanks to the work of geographers who are trying to emphasize it as an advantageous and insightful standpoint to look…

Creating Culture

Independent centers of cultural production in Turin – I centri indipendenti di produzione culturale a Torino

The most recent Italian cultural and artistic panorama has experienced a new phase. Alongside the institutional and commercial realities, there were experiences of independent centers of cultural production. These subjects form a dynamic, productive and relational creative fabric whose ability…

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Il progetto di identità e la ri-significazione dei luoghi. Il patrimonio ebraico in Calabria

Il passaggio degli Ebrei in Calabria dal IV al XVI secolo d.C. lascia sul territorio elementi tangibili e tali da delineare un modello urbano, oggi di difficile interpretazione. L’apparente mancanza di rapporto tra esigenze culturali e tipologia rende determinante la…

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Hidden identities of urban space – Le identità nascoste dello spazio urbano

Urban space, understood both as a physical place and as an intangible entity, represents the contemporary background par excellence, the preferred habitat of the species homo sapiens sapiens, the reference context of numerous studies and analyses on post-modern societies. The…

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Serena Rocca

Nasce nel 1986, e viene saggiamente cresciuta a pane, fumetti e videogiochi. Dopo il diploma studia a Roma, presso la SRF (Scuola Romana dei Fumetti), per dedicarsi poi principalmente all’illustrazione, in particolare per l’infanzia. Il suo ultimo lavoro è la…

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Art of the Deal. Contemporary art in a global financial market

The book offers a complete picture of the art market and the growing connection between art and money, becoming an indispensable reading for all students, academics, professional players and passionate who want to know how the art market works.

Creating Culture

Theatre at auction! Making it live!

July 2006: some advertisements invited interested people to take part in the public auction announced to sell the for too long a time dismissed Teatro Sociale of Gualtieri. The theatre is now becoming a benchmark in the domain, for the…

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The Panagbenga: Ethico-Political Issues, Contestations, and Recommendations on the Cultural Sustainability of a Festival

The Panagbenga cultural festival of the popular tourist destination of Baguio City, Philippines, turns 20 in February 2015. Researching the sustainability of a 4-weeks festival held annually since 1995 is of academic and practical interest. Lessons can be learned for…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Contemporary art fairs as new forms of cultural consumption and urban experience

Contemporary art fairs are commercial exhibitions where art dealers meet up over the course of several days at a specific event. Nowadays they are held around the world, offering attendees the opportunity to experience in just a few days what…

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Eventful Cities: the relationship between city development and cultural events

In recent years slogans such as ‘festival city’ or ‘city of festivals’ have become common elements of the brand image of many cities. But why have events become so popular? What are the benefits of being ‘eventful’? What is the…

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Call For Papers on “Crafting international strategies”

SAM - Strategic Arts Management Master Class and Tafter Journal launch a call for papers on culture between site-specific creativity and international markets. Get involved! You'll have the possibility to get 100% off of the SAM registration fee!

Artists and illustrations

Emilia Patrignani

Nasce nel caldo luglio dell’86 a Roma. Nel tentativo di risalire la penisola, approda a Milano nel 2007. Non paga, passa il confine e vive a Berlino, New York e Lisbona. Le sue esperienze di designer della moda, costumista, e…

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Cross – Cultural Management. A transnational approach

Taran Patel offers a complete critical review of the existing crossover between national, societal and corporate levels in the business context focusing on cultural theoretical frameworks from the past literature. The author moves from business literature to anthropological literature on…

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TRUST IN BO. A new idea for Italian theatre management

Theatre's needs and, above all, audience awareness, have showed relevant changes in the last few years. What happen to theatres organizations? How do they face society development? How do they deal with crisis?

Culture for territorial development

Festivals and place. Isola delle Storie book festival and genius loci

The research investigates the relationship between festivals and place, looking at their genius loci and economic, social and cultural benefits produced. The issues were applied to Isola delle Storie, a book festival strongly rooted in its land and characters. The…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

VOICES: an urban map of sentiment

Talking about cities, from their planning to their living, means activating fields of dialogue with more and more heterogeneous connotations. It means being able to face, handle and argue not only themes with architectural features, concerning infrastructures, services and buildings,…

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Curiosity and contemplation: a geography of culture

Culture is certainly rooted in specific sites. Such a simple feature has been used, often overused or even abused in the attempt at drawing borderlines or highlighting local pride, emphasizing a sense of belonging based upon the refusal of strangers…

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Simone Fumagalli

Nato nel 1985, risiede nella provincia di Monza e Brianza. Dopo essersi diplomato in Grafica Pubblicitaria, frequenta il corso di illustrazione a Milano presso la scuola Arte e Messaggio e il Mimaster di illustrazione nel 2013-2014. Ha esperienze lavorative sia…

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Compendio di diritto dei Beni Culturali

Fabrizio Lemme, autore del “Compendio di Diritto dei Beni Culturali”, guida i propri lettori alla scoperta dei profili giuridici inerenti la tutela del patrimonio culturale, mettendo a frutto la sua duplice esperienza di collezionista d’arte e di giurista.

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How African cultural festivals are using innovative methods to attract new audiences, fund and host sustainable festivals

This paper will focus on trends within the management of African cultural festivals, particularly on aspects of attracting new audiences primarily through social media, new approaches to funding such as using crowd funding and original models of social and environmental…

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Decorating the Athens Metro: a matter of culture or conventionality?

One of the most ambitious public works of modern Greece, which is still under development, is the Athens Metro. Such a great project for the biggest city of the country can be viewed and analyzed in many ways in terms…

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Culture and development at a crossroads

The two articles featured in this issue of Tafter Journal by Mazuba Kapambwe and Johannis Tsoumas may inspire some further reflections on the difficult, ‘liquid’ relation between place, ideology and politics, which is so present in almost any debate on…

Artists and illustrations

Alessandro Romita

Alessandro Romita ha 24 anni. Disegna e scrive storie disegnate da 20. Ha frequentato il Liceo Artistico V. Ciardo di Lecce, la Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano con indirizzo Graphic design & Art Direction, il corso di fumetto…

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Art as an investment?

Pointing out similarities and differences that exist between art and other kinds of assets, Melanie Gerlis – the Art Market editor of The Art Newspaper – try to figure out an answer to the question whether art is a good…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

An overview of the art sector

The art sector has a network structure, where actors operate in relationship with each other. But one must points out the fact that one individual can act in different roles or perform the tasks of various actor types.

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

The notion of accountability and its usage in the cultural sector

All human, personal, economic and political relations are based on the notion of trust. Nevertheless, which are the subjects actually reliable or, in other words, truly accountable? It is necessary to make such a concept measurable, particularly in the economic…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Contemporary Art and Urban Regeneration in the City of Milan

In an enclosed space, such as a district, a city, or an area within the city, creative potential is intimately linked to the degree of knowledge and innovation, let alone the kind of cultural opportunities that space provides. On a…

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What an effort “to enter out”! Closures and resistances in the cultural sector

“It might be easy for you, but you cannot imagine how difficult is for us to enter outside”. Few years ago, walking in the yards of Santa Maria Della Pietà, psychiatric hospital already closed, Thomas Lovanio, Franco Basaglia’s colleague, got…

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Artists and illustrations

Chiara Ghigliazza

Nasce a Milano nel 1990. Dopo il liceo artistico si diploma in Grafica d’arte all’Accademia di belle arti di Brera. Partecipa a diverse esposizioni, e contemporaneamente fa apprendistato per due anni come tatuatrice. Attualmente frequenta il Mimaster di illustrazione editoriale…

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Management per la sostenibilità dello sviluppo turistico e la competitività delle destinazioni

Attraverso una raccolta dettagliata di casi studio e analisi teoriche si indagano le connessioni tra la sostenibilità, il management e la competitività di una destinazione turistica per restituire alla ricerca e, soprattutto, agli attori coinvolti nella gestione dello sviluppo turistico…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Culture and social welfare: thinking about the bolognaise context

The article supports the thesis that culture is a real development engine able to enhance our social welfare. If public entities, associations and private bodies will adopt a joint point of view, results will be tangible.

Culture for territorial development

Veneto and Venice: new visions of Culture

The relationship between culture and territory is the subject of an increasing interest. Today, culture is widely recognized as a key asset for economic and social development and competitiveness. At the same time, we live in a period characterized by…

Technology for Culture - Culture for Technology

How web presence strategy can help museums to be a digital breeding ground for innovative communication

This article aims to understand if an efficient museums' online presence can strategically impact on and improve their promotion and the way they are perceived by potential visitors. Visitors can engage and support a museum more if they feel like…

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The challenging walk to digitization

The massive use of digital tools and technological devices requests a serious reflection upon the role played by culture in our society. Obviously, the black and white scheme does not work any more in a context where the long-established opposition…

Artists and illustrations

Laura Re

Nata a Roma, inizia a disegnare fin da piccola. Frequenta il liceo artistico e successivamente la SRF ( Scuola Romana del fumetto). Negli ultimi anni ha pubblicato con la Eli edizioni “Storie di fantasmi per il dopocena” e ha collaborato…

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Il governo della cultura. Promuovere sviluppo e qualità sociale

Una guida illuminata da una carriera accademica e professionale dedicata ai temi dell’economia della cultura e della creatività è l’ultimo lascito di Walter Santagata, recentemente scomparso, alla classe dirigente italiana.

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Describe the role of collectors in the XXI century, in terms of effects on the art market, influence on artistic creation, diffusion and knowledge of artists and artworks

Collectors are different than donors who support the cultural production by giving money. Collectors are totally involved in the art market.

Managing Culture for creating impacts

The importance of being evaluated. Guidelines and tools to plan a worthy evaluation of cultural projects

Talking about culture production, we need to shift The importance of being Earnest in The importance of being evaluated. The longing of evaluation it is in fact, by now, intrinsic to any cultural project: sponsors, stakeholders, project managers are all…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Analyzing the Network of the Italian Cultural Institute of Copenhagen. Reactions to the Farnesina Reform and Promotion of the Sistema Italia

The Italian Cultural Institutes are not just pivotal elements of the Italian cultural diplomacy but also crucial tools to promote Italian culture and language. The Reform of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010) determined a reorganization of both the internal…

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The value of culture. Neverending debates need views and tools

Within the rich and complex vocabulary of culture the word value is certainly overused. It is always associated with culture, however we prefer to define it (which is already a challenging task). Even those who hate culture, since they fear…

Artists and illustrations

Sara Fabbri

Nata a Rimini, tutt’oggi senza fissa dimora. Artigiana dell’immagine e appassionata progettista di ogni tipo di comunicazione, lavora come grafica, art director, animatrice tradizionale e illustratrice freelance. Compulsiva raccoglitrice di carta. sarafabbri.portfoliobox.megattinpiazza.tumblr.com

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Tech and the city. Start up a New York un modello per l’Italia

Sfruttando le competenze distintive dell’economica newyorkese – finanza, moda, designer, pubblicità e media – la comunità hi tech ha trovato un terreno fertile per sviluppare nuovi modelli di business, in cui i giovani e le loro idee assumono un ruolo…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Collecting Art: the not-for-profit sector and the art market

Give an overview of the art sector through actors involved, missions, roles, ways of operating and relationships among them.

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Working with surfaces to create spaces: street art or landscape project?

The presence of urban voids within contemporary cities imposes to consider the importance of new interpretations/actions on the landscape. These actions have to use formal representation devices more related to community needs. Thanks to its expressiveness, art can be used…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Children and cultural policies in Europe

Today, children are a main target for many cultural institutions. There is no museum that does not devote space and activities for children and, more recently, also concert halls, orchestras and opera houses have opened their doors to the young…

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Does Culture Need New Audiences? Absolutely Yes!

In a time of austerity, audience development represents a fundamental aspect which should be taken into account. In the traditional business sectors, the demand side has always played a key role in order to predict and satisfy a huge range…

Calls for papers

Call For Papers on “Festivals: audience, funding and sustainability”. Deadline extended to 31 March 2014

Tafter Journal and LOOP Studies/University of Barcelona invite paper submissions which offer new and challenging research on trends within the management of cultural festivals. Get Involved! We welcome participants willing to share their research and experiences!

Calls for papers

Double Call For Papers On Copyright. Deadline extended to 15 January 2014

Tafter Journal is pleased to announce a special Double Call for Papers on Copyright in order to give attention to one of the most current and controversial talking point.

Artists and illustrations

Valentina Malgarise

Nata a Verona nel 1985. Ha frequentato il corso triennale di illustrazione presso la Scuola Del Fumetto di Milano conseguendo il diploma nel 2006 e successivamente, presso la stessa, ha seguito un Master di illustrazione editoriale.In seguito alla partecipazione ad…

Creating Culture

Creative Chaos: How To Feed Ideas

I am always inspired by the ‘art’ of facilitation, a combination of methodologies useful for leading and orientating a complex group in job meetings or workshops, generally used in the learning organization and educational field. So, what if culture makes…

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Communication, Mediation and Culture in the Making of Europe

What is the role of media and communication in European Union integration? Is it the “making of Europe” in danger because of the EU institutions incapacity to communicate with its citizens? Does – and should – exist a European public…

Managing Culture for creating impacts

Development As A Network: A New Perspective To Evaluate Cultural Projects

The paper aims to show how and why network analysis turns to be a precious and complementary tool to evaluate cultural projects for local development. After reviewing the traditional project evaluation techniques, we first discuss how network analysis is able…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Forum D’Avignon 2013: Polyphonic Voice From Avignon

The Forum d’Avignon is a think-tank dedicated to culture and creative industries which organizes an international annual meeting on culture, economics and media in Avignon, France since 2008. More than 450 participants of different sectors arrive from 40 nations. Guaranteeing…

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Future Culture: Back To Normality

Many things are occurring, quite often in the shadow, out of the places and groups where conventions are crafted and consolidated. The only possible reaction to changes and threats is action, not certainly discussion. Action requires thought and interpretation. But…

Artists and illustrations

Irene Servillo

Giovane illustratrice che si occupa principalmente di illustrazione per l’infanzia e illustrazione editoriale. Utilizza tecniche pittoriche miste al collage e tecniche digitali.Il suo stile è contemporaneo, romantico e ironico. http://pitopiti.blogspot.it/

Topics of Interest

Web Marketing e Destinazione Ospitale

Un testo interessante per gli esperti del settore e non e, soprattutto, un invito a ricordare che il successo di un buon piano di web marketing è direttamente proporzionale alla condivisione dei contenuti e degli obiettivi con il territorio.

Technology for Culture - Culture for Technology

The Art of Augmenting Reality

Over the last few years, we have been witness to the emergence of the use of the virtual in public space. The manifestation of the virtual and the interplay of it with the real are changing the concept of public…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Exploring the emerging model of social enterprise capital markets

The ways through which a social enterprise gets funding have undergone major changes in recent years. An innovative entrepreneurship vision, based on issues which are different from the traditional return on capital principle, has been brought to light asking for…

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The rise of the unconventional approaches

The complexity of the contemporary world, combined with the social needs of increasing portions of population, puts on the table new issues to address. In a context characterised by high degrees of competitiveness and few stocks of monetary and natural…

Artists and illustrations

Benedetto Cristofani

Nato a Siena il 25 Aprile del 1983. Diplomato in illustrazione presso l’Istituto Europeo di Design a Milano, lavora presso un’agenzia di comunicazione e come freelance dal 2007. Vive a Firenze. E’ illustratore e art director. www.benedettocristofani.net www.facebook.com/TheWellsaid

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Turismo e territorio: analisi empiriche e approcci metodologici

Il fenomeno turistico viene affrontato in modo scientifico e approfondito in questo testo edito dalla McGraw-Hill e curato da due ricercatori (V. Asero di Economia Politica e R. D’Agata di Statistica sociale) e da una professoressa associata (V. Tomaselli di…

Is theatre efficiency affected by the legal form type? A case study of German public theatres

The paper aims at exploring the economic efficiency of the performing arts organisations. A parametric stochastic frontier approach is presented as a way of measuring the performance of cultural institutions. In particular, this paper examines how the efficiency of publicly…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

The rise of startups in the cultural industry | Il fenomeno delle start-up nel settore culturale

In tempi recenti, politici, intellettuali, accademici e altri importanti attori della società civile hanno cominciato a riconoscere che la cultura può essere uno dei fattori trainanti per la ripresa economica e sociale del nostro paese. Durante il 2013 il governo…

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Culture and sustainability, this is the challenge – Cultura e sostenibilità, questa è la sfida

The year 2013 is coming to an end and there are contradictory signs and a fair amount of confusion in our poor country, while elsewhere we are working on large and very demanding horizons and scenarios. The articles proposed in…

Calls for papers

Double Call For Papers On Copyright. Deadline extended to 15 January 2014

Tafter Journal is pleased to announce a special Double Call for Papers on Copyright in order to give attention to one of the most current and controversial talking point.

Calls for papers

Tafter Journal. Double Call For Papers On Copyright. Deadline extended to 15 January 2014

Tafter Journal is pleased to announce a special Double Call for Papers on Copyright in order to give attention to one of the most current and controversial talking point.

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

What is soft power if anything but Hollywood, MTV, and Mcdonalds?

Reflections on the political and economic relevance of “soft power” also understood as the level of attractiveness that a country is able to build on the basis of its cultural fruitions. Thus, “soft power” is not only considered in terms…

Artists and illustrations

Giulia Frances

Ha studiato Design per lo spettacolo al Central St. Martins College of Art di Londra. Ha lavorato come scenografa e costumista nel Regno Unito e in Italia seguendo anche spettacoli in tournée internazionali.Appassionata di albi illustrati fin da bambina, nel…

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Progettare e valutare nel sociale. Metodi ed esperienze

L’attività di progettazione e valutazione, consolidatasi quale metodologia di intervento nel sociale a partire dagli anni settanta su tutto il territorio nazionale, ha comportato l’assunzione di una visione strategica e l’accrescimento nel tempo di capacità e competenze di dirigenti, responsabili…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

R&D in creative industries: some lessons from the book publishing sector

Notwithstanding the recent increasing interest in creative industries (CIs), very few studies are dealing with a new and emerging topic like technological innovation. In CIs, innovation is in general considered from a single viewpoint: a means to develop new creative…

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Exploring the world between nostalgia and desire

In such a rapidly changing world certainties are strongly needed, and communities share a painful nostalgia for an idyllic past. While powerful people try to stop time a growing tribe of innovators and non-prejudicial individuals build a sort of network…

Artists and illustrations

Anita Monoscalco

Artista romana, nasce nel 1974. Nel 2002 consegue il diploma di Laurea in scultura all’Accademia delle Belle Arti di Carrara dove per diversi anni fa parte attivamente della vita artistica della provincia Toscana, realizzando importanti opere scultoree in bronzo e…

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Turismo e Reput’azione

Il testo focalizza l’attenzione su un fenomeno attuale e sempre più nodale nel settore turistico (e non solo): la web reputation. La questione apparentemente semplice presenta numerose articolazioni che portano all’evidenza come questa abbia un sempre maggiore ruolo chiave nella…

Creating Culture

The undervalued of potential of the peripathetic feature of festivals. A look at the FISahara Film Festival

In relation to the practice of deterritorilisaton, The FISahara film festival, coming to its 6th edition, is one of the most atypical activist film festivals, which takes place in a refugee camp in the middle of the Algerian desert, where…

Managing Culture for creating impacts

Cultural responsibility. Small steps to restore anthropology in economic behaviour. Interviews and best practices

Cultural responsibility (CR) links the terms “culture” and “responsibility”. This connection calls for a respectful attitude towards different cultural expressions and intercultural dialogue, in a society characterized by globalization and the spread of knowledge-based economy and cultural and creative industries.…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

Cultural hubs as powerful leverage of economic growth: Sydney and Philadelphia case studies

The creativity industry has become more and more important not only for workers of the cultural sector, but also for governments and local authorities. In fact, cultural policy means economical policy. The article supports the thesis that culture is a…

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Walter Santagata (1945 – 2013)

Walter Santagata passed away unexpectedly, leaving a deep emptiness. His cultural creatures are various, and important. Walter leaves fertile ideas upon which we need to reflect.

Artists and illustrations

Libero Gozzini

Vive e lavora a Milano come illustratore . Diplomato all’Istituto d’Arte applicata del Castello Sforzesco è tra i fondatori dello Studio INK e dell’Associazione Illustratori, della quale è stato presidente. Negli anni ’70 e ’80 collabora con numerose agenzie di…

Cultural Market, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance

A consideration about cultural districts in Italy

The cultural district can provide a true cultural, social, economic and touristic revival of entire areas giving to cultural heritage the function of driving force for the economic growth of linked industry if culturally programmed and territorially planned.

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Cultura. Punto e accapo

Nato dal confronto di un gruppo di tecnici attivi nel settore culturale, “Cultura. Punto e accapo” è un Programma chiaro e sintetico e un prontuario di cinquanta “parole chiave” pensato per essere una piattaforma di confronto e, al tempo stesso,…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Social Innovation and the Arts. Artists alone are not enough!

While social innovation begins to be broadly embraced by policy-makers and scholars in the context of healthcare and education, hardly any research has been done in the fields of the arts and culture (Mulgan et al., 2007). This paper aims…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Password Trento 2012: Fostering a new culture of participation | Password Trento 2012, per una nuova cultura della partecipazione

La città di Trento per un anno intero, il 2012, si è interrogata e confrontata per impostare, discutere e condividere una radicale revisione del suo Piano di politica culturale, aggiornando il precedente del 2003 e dotandosi di un nuovo orizzonte…

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The importance of being innovative

The 21st century will be remembered as the century of creativity and innovation: from performing arts to manufacturing, from education to trade finance, all economic sectors - both conventional and unconventional - need to be creative and innovative in order…

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La fine del copyright. Come creare un mercato culturale aperto a tutti

Sinceramente questo piccolo, ma molto denso e interessante volumetto non l'avevamo notato al momento della sua pubblicazione, ma, per dirla con Alberto Manzi, il maestro televisivo degli anni ‘60, “non è mai troppo tardi” per imparare e recuperare proficuamente il…

Artists and illustrations

Marta Bassotti

Nata ad Ancona e laureata nel 2012 all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino in Pittura.Durante l’esperienza all’Accademia si è avvicinata al mondo dell’illustrazione e ha approfondito la sua esperienza frequentando il Mimaster a Milano, nel corso del quale una sua…

Culture for humans: education, psychology and health

Nails, hammers and green rabbits. The challenge of art-science collaborative projects

The project Arscientia, a new format conceived by two Venetian companies Picapao and Fondaco, aimed at cross-fertilizing art, science and appraise their innovative potential. Thanks to the final award and moments of dialogues on the newest tendencies and scenarios between…

Technology for Culture - Culture for Technology

Grounding a new meaning of performative museum on the paradigm of Natural Interaction

This contribution aims at outlining a theoretical framework for the interpretation of some recent trends in museum exhibition design, based on the technological paradigm of Natural Human Computer Interaction. Performance and performativity from the perspective of performance studies are employed…

Technology for Culture - Culture for Technology

Images and the Web: A 2.0 approach to preserving the Gorizia Archdiocese Photo Archive | Immagini e Web: percorsi della memoria 2.0. Per una nuova versione Web dell’Archivio fotografico dell’Arcidiocesi di Gorizia

Il Web sta diventando sempre più il luogo di asset informativi di grande rilevanza scientifica e culturale, che non hanno alcuna controparte fisica e richiedono un’adeguata rappresentazione e un management efficace. "Percorsi della memoria" è il titolo del progetto di…

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Performative museums and new indexing, here you are culture 2.0, folks! – Musei performativi e nuove indicizzazioni, questa è cultura 2.0

Contemporary life is experiencing a deeper diffusion of the web and new digital technologies. These tools are gradually going to integrate and redefine a wide range of human experiences and the same cultural sector can be said to be invested…

Creating Culture

A new perspective for the movie industry: the use of web 2.0 and user-generated content

In 2011, the Dutch company, FCCE, has launched the Entertainment Experience project in order to create the first fully user-generated movie conceived by the audience and another one directed by Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct) on the same basis of audience’s…

Artists and illustrations

Eleonora Valsecchi

Nata a Milano, laureata in Pittura e arti visive alla NABA. Eclettica per quanto riguarda i metodi espressivi, si interessa in particolare alla realizzazione d’installazioni e sculture semoventi.Stimolata dopo un piccolo progetto di animazione, ha rivolto la sua attenzione al…

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Product placement, teenpic e adolescenti 2.0

La complessità di mercati che partono dal cinema e arrivano agli adolescenti. Circostanziato e approfondito come pochi, il libro di Masoero incede con ritmo stretto offrendo al lettore una narrazione distesa e morbida, senza mai perdere la pertinenza tecnica e…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Quality of life and cultural perspectives in the Venetian mainland | Qualità di vita e orizzonti culturali della Terraferma veneziana

La Terraferma veneziana, negli ultimi decenni, è stata protagonista di numerosi investimenti in riqualificazione, volti a ridisegnarne l’assetto architettonico, urbanistico, ambientale e culturale. Ancora una volta, la cultura è riuscita a farsi strada fra i programmi elaborati dai pianificatori ed…

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

Smart Parma, or not? | Smart Parma, o no?

Parma si differenzia dalle altre province della Regione Emilia - Romagna per la tradizione dovuta ai fasti del Ducato, per le scelte politiche e per un'identità elitaria che caratterizza anche il suo “capitale culturale”. Nel 2012 è stato reso pubblico…

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City and “cultural capital” – Città e “capitale culturale”

In the search for greater and better well-being for a society, an objective that economic science explicitly sets itself, while proposing recipes of varying success, an important role for culture emerges today. The idea emerges that, in the commitment to…

Artists and illustrations

Stefano Pietramala

He was born in Bologna in June 1988.As a child, design is only a hobby, along with the reading of his comics.While attending Francesco Arcangeli art high school, in Bologna, starts to work as a self-taught graphic for a magazine…

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Fondazioni Bancarie e nuova economia della cultura

Nate all’inizio degli anni ’90 con la legge Amato-Carli 218/1990, le Fondazioni di origine bancaria (FOB) hanno concretamente supportato nel corso di poco più di un ventennio di esistenza migliaia di istituzioni pubbliche e private, prestando particolare attenzione ai settori…

Culture for humans: education, psychology and health

Priming as a learning tool in museum environment

Sometimes scholars complain that students and lay public are not able to look at artistic exhibits displayed in a Museum of Fine Arts. We would like to assess whether a model based on priming – acting on implicit memory –…

Gestire cultura

The Role of Culture in Promoting Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth: A Strategic Analysis of the 2014-2020 Structural Funds | La cultura per una crescita intelligente, sostenibile e solidale. Verso un uso strategico dei Fondi Strutturali 2014-2020 per la cultura

Culture lies at the heart of the European project's economic and political sphere. On the one hand, culture generates wealth; on the other, it is also a source of creativity and innovation, fostering dialogue and social cohesion, as well as…

Luoghi insoliti

Capitale sociale, imprenditorialità locale e governance territoriale: il circuito turistico Cortes Apertas/Autunno in Barbagia come politica di sviluppo locale

Il contributo difende la validità dello sviluppo locale, paradigma che riconosce anche alle aree marginali la possibilità di realizzare percorsi di sviluppo virtuoso radicati nel territorio e integrati in circuiti globali. Per conseguire tale obiettivo, a partire da un caso…

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Does culture deserve public funds? – La cultura merita i fondi pubblici?

The relationship between cultural activities and public funds is subject to an endless torment. As always, the hosts settle on opposite sides and to frighten the opponents adopt doomsday arguments. The most used adjective is ‘right’, which should find little…

After

A contemporary Trajan

Cultural institutions may transmit notions and memories of our past. But today’s audience, more than ever before, is looking for interaction, participation and an appropriation of museum spaces. Monuments can stimulate curiosity, encourage to return another time, surprise with unexpected…

Artists and illustrations

Ilaria Angelini

Nasce nel 1993 a Milano dove vive e studia.Diplomata al liceo artistico nel 2012, sta muovendo i primi passi nel mondo dell’illustrazione frequentando il corso annuale al Mimaster di Milano.Le piacciono i gatti ciccioni e le lunghe passeggiate per la…

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L’Impresa Moda Responsabile. Integrare etica ed estetica nella filiera

L’Impresa Moda Responsabile offre al proprio lettore la possibilità di esplorare, attraverso un percorso ricco di esempi, i legami tra moda e responsabilità sociale d’impresa. Uno spunto per ripensare l’attuale modello manageriale e imprenditoriale del settore moda, ponendo al centro…

Gestire cultura

The Cranach syndrome. Calls for private donations for museums’ art acquisitions: new perspectives for the French Public Cultural Institutions funding?

Micro-sponsorship might become a way to develop seminal actions of culture and in particular require people to define through their financial support what makes their culture today, in other words, what should become a clear statement of their own heritage.…

Luoghi insoliti

From destination management to destination governance

Tourist destinations face the challenge of being characterized by a highly fragmented offer, by a complex relationship between public institutions and private enterprises and by contrasting opposed stakeholder interests. Consequently, destination planning and management become a difficult process and destination…

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The dialogue that can save us – Il dialogo che ci può salvare

The involvement of citizens in the conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage and the creation and management of a tourist offer adapted to the needs of an evolved demand, and an increasingly competitive market: these are topics on which attention…

Politiche culturali

Revolving funds and building preservation trusts: a new and efficient way of preserving European Heritage?

As European States are less and less involved in Heritage protection, new ways have to be found to safeguard historical buildings. Private structures such as “revolving funds” and “building preservation trusts” are part of them; respectively coming from the USA…

Politiche culturali

Open data in the cultural field

The Bibliotheque Nationale de France and its association to the private sector to digitize the data to be released.

Artists and illustrations

Antxon Corcuera

È nato a Zaragoza (Spagna).Si muove fra l’illustrazione, la musica e il cinema. Dopo aver terminato gli studi di Belle Arti si dedica al cinema, lavorando ad alcuni cortometraggi e dedicandosi a registrazioni musicali. Come illustratore collabora con la rivista…

After

Subverting the monopoly: new music labels in the Middle East

Nowadays the diffusion of music is controlled by a handful of labels that distribute roughly 80% of the music in the world. This monopoly brought about to a standardization of music that not only concerns Western countries but also many…

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Manual of Museum Planning. Sustainable space, facilities and operations

“Manual of Museum Planning”, l’imperdibile guida per gli esperti del settore che intendono pianificare il rinnovo, l’espansione o la costruzione di musei o gallerie d’arte è giunta alla sua terza edizione. Sostenibilità sociale, ambientale ed economica è la caratteristica che…

Metropolis

Sustaining Culture in the Transformation of Historic Cities | La sostenibilità culturale nei processi di trasformazione delle città storiche di pregio

Cultural heritage, in all its forms, is both a productive asset and a precious resource to be conserved. It embodies and safeguards the values of a place and its people. Sustainable conservation of cultural heritage addresses the challenges of balancing…

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The Cultural Dimension of Sustainability

It is time to find new ways of injecting culture into business strategy. Economic downturn is quickly spreading across the big Western democracies because of an interconnected and global production system, causing a negative impact in terms of growth, employment…

Politiche culturali

The Virtual Centre Pompidou, a new strategy to acquire and publish digital content thanks to a strong sponsorship

The Centre Pompidou has rethought its digital strategy and developed a new platform to broadcast cultural contents in digital format on the Internet through a pilot project: the Virtual Centre Pompidou.

Mappe

New York. The High Line Park: growing innovative urban projects on a common ground

Unlike other parks, the High Line was thought and designed as a growing nest for the arts, a conceptual journey through temporary exhibition espousing the trail from seasons to seasons, apart from turmoil of the city that never sleeps.

Mappe

Shanghai. From an autumnal Bologna to my friend G.

Francamente, era da quando sono nata che volevo vedere questa città, e, come tutte le cose che si riescono a realizzare e che si sono a lungo sognate nella propria vita, quando si è lì, almeno io, ci si ritrova…

After

Where do we belong? Festivals conquer the urban texture

This reflection comes to my mind when looking at the social and cultural current phenomenon such as the recent proliferation of film festivals around the world. I consider this phenomenon as an expression of the changing nature of the audience…

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Reti di indignazione e speranza. Movimenti sociali nell’era di Internet

Dalle rivolte del mondo arabo ai movimenti degli indignados in Spagna e Occupy Wall Street negli Stati Uniti: cosa hanno in comune queste nuove forme di movimenti sociali e di protesta? Questo è l’interrogativo a cui cerca di dare una…

Artists and illustrations

Marianna Coppo

Nasce a roma ventitré anni fa. Adesso vive a Milano dove studia presso il MiMaster di illustrazione editoriale.Le piace disegnare, leggere, viaggiare e la maionese.Detesta scrivere biografie. http://www.behance.net/coppomarianna

Reti creative

Quale musica per quali giovani?

Se ci capitasse di chiedere a un ragazzo italiano quale musica ascolta, la risposta molto probabilmente ricadrebbe su generi quali pop, rock, rap, hip-hop, ecc. e molto difficilmente ci verrebbe risposto “ascolto la musica classica”. Che l’ascolto della musica sia…

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Arte e infanzia. L’importanza dell’arte nello sviluppo del bambino

Arte e creatività svolgono un ruolo fondamentale nell'ambito dell'evoluzione infantile, tuttavia, per molti versi, entrambe sembrano essere oggetto di scarso interesse da parte delle istituzioni. All'interno dei programmi educativi scolastici, le discipline artistiche appaiono infatti collocate in secondo piano rispetto…

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Why should we care about the arts?

Many things are disappearing from the political agenda: the emerging economic paradigm is totally ignored, as if nothing had happened in the most recent years showing the final breath of manufacturing capitalism; the new social complexities are feared, as if…

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Datong. Gernsbacking China

Cosa succede se non c’è la cultura dietro l’immaginario del futuro, ma solo la fame di denaro? Datong è una città piena di edifici vuoti, edifici distrutti prima ancora di essere abitati, distrutti per venire ricostruiti; Datong sta tirando giù…

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Wutai Shan. Nubi all’orizzonte e breccia nei polmoni

La scoperta in Cina del turismo e del turismo religioso ha creato il turismo religioso di massa cinese, ovvero la cosa più vicina a una invasione di cavallette che io abbia mai visto. Dove passano, la devastazione, non cresce più…

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Tafter Journal, gennaio 2013 – numero speciale epos. Verso un’agenda per la cultura dei prossimi anni

I contributi raccolti nel numero speciale di Tafter Journal dedicato a epos intendono attivare – attraverso un dialogo intergenerazionale – un processo critico che conduca verso un progressivo miglioramento delle forme di governo e di gestione dei beni e delle…

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Pingyao. La città degli spiriti e l’albero di ailanto

Giorni fa mi chiedevo se esistessero case infestate, ed ecco un’intera città piena di spiriti, che siano stati loro, gli spiriti, a nascondere la città agli sguardi del governo centrale per così tanto tempo?

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Un’agenda per la cultura dei prossimi anni

Il sistema culturale attraversa una fase di radicale trasformazione. È l’intera società, il suo paradigma economico e produttivo, le sue relazioni individuali e collettive, a trovarsi su un crinale del quale si percepisce la dimensione ma non si riescono a…

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Pechino. Hutong e sostituzioni, ovvero del lento filtrare

Approdo a Pechino di mattina. Questo viaggio è nato come le bolle soffiate con una cannuccia colorata in un bicchiere di cola, come quelle bolle si presenterà Pechino, senza senso se guardata dall'alto, ma come un’infilata di bolle nello sguardo…

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Kristina Milakovic

Pittrice. E’ nata a Belgrado nel 1976, dove ha studiato presso l’Atelier della pittrice Etela Merc e dove ha conseguito il “Diploma della Scuola Superiore di Architettura”. Nel 1996 si trasferisce in Italia e nel 1997 si iscrive presso l’”Accademia…

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L’economia della cultura

Esce in edizione aggiornata un libro che è considerato ormai un classico da coloro che si interessano - per studio e per diletto - alle tematiche che connettono il settore culturale al mondo economico. “L’economia della cultura” di Françoise Benhamou…

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Cultura bene comune? Una riflessione retrospettiva

Che cosa vuol dire “bene comune” per i cittadini che nella cultura trovano ed elaborano la propria identità? E quali princìpi, regole e strumenti possono riuscire a proteggerne, consolidarne e diffondere il valore?

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Un ecosistema per la cultura

La cultura è la risorsa che più d’ogni altra traccia il palinsesto specifico di un territorio, definendolo come reticolo di costruzione relazionale e di prossimità; essa è costituita e integrata dai processi quotidiani del fare: di avverbi più che di…

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Open culture, il rapporto possibile tra cultura e comunità

La partecipazione, già sfruttata dalla comunicazione e dal marketing, soprattutto attraverso il web 2.0, ora diventa la chiave per un deciso cambiamento sociale e culturale.

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Nuove infrastrutture per la produzione culturale

The Hub è un progetto mondiale basato sul concetto di coworking. Lo dice la parola stessa: si lavora insieme, si trae spunto gli uni dagli altri, in un continuo rilancio di competenze, collaborazioni, idee, necessariamente innovative e socialmente responsabili.

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Intercettare il futuro. Mappe del possibile

Trattare qualsiasi tema legato al territorio in epoca contemporanea è estremamente ambizioso e complesso. Le città in cui abitiamo diventano sempre meno afferrabili, sempre meno maneggiabili con gli strumenti e i paradigmi con i quali siamo abituati ad avere a…

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Immobili pubblici, beni culturali e sviluppo

Nel corso degli ultimi quindici anni sono state molteplici le iniziative dei governi italiani per valorizzare beni e aree statali sottoutilizzati e quindi generare attivi per il bilancio pubblico.

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Artisti interpreti del territorio e della comunità

La professione dell’artista/creatore/produttore in questa nuova situazione assume contorni più flessibili e trasversali trovandosi al centro di relazioni sociali e istituzionali rispetto all’ormai lontana e superata visione dell’artista autonomo e indipendente.

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Un distretto musicale

Il presente articolo sintetizza i risultati di una ricerca desk, condotta all’interno dell’Università IULM, sulla localizzazione spaziale in Italia delle imprese appartenenti alla filiera produttiva dell’industria musicale.

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Dell’arte ribelle

E' fondamentale che l’arte irrompa nella vita quotidiana e ne riprenda gli spazi, emancipandosi da quei luoghi di conservazione e necrosi che ne sono talvolta spazi esclusivi e deputati di fruizione per iniziati.

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I nuovi volti del multi-culturalismo

L'emersione di nuovi bisogni, una delle caratteristiche peculiari della domanda di beni e servizi degli ultimi anni, risulta essere strettamente connessa alla nascita di nuove fasce di consumatori, tra cui rientrano anche le popolazioni migranti.

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Valori e prassi del turismo culturale

Il turismo culturale continua il suo percorso di espansione con una sempre maggiore diversificazione della domanda; la concorrenza aumenta e anche l’offerta si specializza facendo emergere nuovi sub-mercati.

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Idee culturali e nuove forme di partecipazione

Il caso Venetian Industries Festival diventa una possibile risposta a quei bisogni culturali espressi e latenti che si identificano difficilmente nell’offerta culturale prevalente nel territorio veneto.

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Come scegliere un manager culturale

La nomina di Jeffery Deitch a direttore del MOCA nel giugno 2010 ha motivazioni ben precise e strettamente connesse con la città di Los Angeles e uno dei suoi personaggi più importanti: il businessman Eli Broad.

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Quello che le muse non dicono

Nel 2009 quattro appassionati di musei, Giuliano Gaia e Stefania Boiano di Invisiblestudio insieme a Francesco Simone e Marco Sors, decidono di lanciare un sito web dedicato ai musei più curiosi d’Italia.

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Nuovi materiali per la cultura

Il design è sempre più considerato un’attività strategica che crea valore aggiunto nella produzione industriale e che senza dubbio ha contribuito fortemente a determinare il successo dei prodotti del Made in Italy.

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Un laboratorio collettivo per il nuovo design

Oggi sono molti i giovani designer italiani che tentano di fare parte attiva della pratica progettuale tentando di esprimere la propria creatività e competenza in un contesto progettuale ostico, non particolarmente attento e consapevole delle loro necessità.

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Eatalians do it better

Cos’è il Made in Italy che ci invidiano all’estero? Non ci si interroga soltanto sul letteralmente “fatto” in Italia, ma più visceralmente su quel valore aggiunto che sembra nascere dalla nostra penisola.

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Il futuro del libro

Stampa o file digitali, papiro o preziosi codici miniati: la rivoluzione della condivisione del sapere è sempre partita dal supporto dei contenuti e dall’accessibilità degli stessi.

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The reason why we want to deal with culture – Perchè vogliamo occuparci di cultura

The reason why we want to deal with culture The aim of epos is to give back to the cultural sector its ability to understand before others the changes taking place and to intercept well in advance the new trends…

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Slovenia. Dove la crisi ha spodestato la cultura d’élite

Stretti tra realtà linguistiche ed economiche ben più potenti e popolose, gli sloveni nella storia hanno sempre saputo difendere le proprie fondamenta: il territorio e la lingua come base della propria cultura. Questo paese spesso dimenticato e confuso con la…

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Do banks believe in art?

Try to imagine if all banks would believe in local art. Imagine if banks would start investing on a long term and regularly in young artists, selecting them with the help of an organization of the sector dealing with the…

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Giuseppe Berardi

Giuseppe Berardi (1977) vive e lavora tra Torino e Zurigo. Artista di grande versatilità nella pittura, i suoi lavori sono spesso visioni poetiche legate al tema dell’aria, della leggerezza del corpo, dello slegarsi di questo dai riferimenti reali. La pittura…

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L’economia del Brasile

Considerato il BRICS che “piace di più all’Occidente”, il Brasile deve affrontare numerose sfide in vista anche di due eventi - i Mondiali di calcio del 2014 e le Olimpiadi del 2016 - che cattureranno l’attenzione mondiale. Nel volume “L’economia…

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La forza lavoro creativa in Europa: un’esplorazione di tendenze territoriali e relazioni con la crescita

Sull’onda della popolarità dei lavori di Richard Florida (2002, 2005), Sharon Zukin (1995) e Anne Markusen (2006), si è andato sviluppando un discorso che ha fatto breccia a livello politico, per cui il settore creativo è considerato un asset fondamentale…

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Dalla metropoli alla periferia diffusa. Dati e dinamiche dell’insediamento degli immigrati nell’area romana

A seguito di un processo in atto almeno dalla seconda metà degli anni ’70, il territorio romano - e per estensione quello del Lazio - si colloca nel contesto nazionale tra le principali aree di immigrazione e di residenzialità di…

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Evolution or pathology of the species? Evoluzione o patologia della specie?

Can the etymology of the word “cretin” help us to propose some reflections on what is published in this issue of the Magazine, which deals with the theme of “creative” professions in Europe and the settlement of immigrants in the…

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Berlino. Forze in movimento: la chiusura del Tacheles

ll 4 settembre scorso, i web media internazionali hanno pubblicato la notizia della chiusura di uno degli storici punti di interesse del panorama culturale di Berlino. Stop, finito per sempre, questa volta per davvero.

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Culture in U.S.: four more years

President Obama has won the 2012 election and will be remaining in office for another four years. From an arts advocacy standpoint, Obama was clearly the favorable candidate for government arts funding.

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Francesca Mariani

Nata ad Ascoli Piceno nel 1981, vive a Roma. Una laurea con lode in Critica d’Arte, la passione per Parigi, pennelli e china a riempire le sue giornate e infinite immagini nella testa che alimentano la sua ricerca e sperimentazione…

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Télévision. L’ère du numérique

Il volume propone un’analisi inedita della trasformazione dovuta alle innovazioni tecnologiche degli ultimi vent’anni del grande media per eccellenza, la televisione. L’originalità dell’approccio consiste nella prospettiva con cui si sceglie di indagare il mezzo: la televisione, strumento comunicativo alla base…

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Is cultural diversity good or bad for the arts and creative economies?

Within the span of two months, September and October 2012, four arts policy-related events problematized the connections between diversity, democracy, and cultural policy. Cultural diversity has often been a convenient target for those who see it as subverting universal values…

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La cultura dei bambini

Tra i pilastri dell’economia della cultura vi sono le teorie dell’addiction e dell’exposure: la cultura, come una droga, crea dipendenza, assuefazione e, più se ne consuma, più se ne consumerebbe. Non solo, man mano che cresce la quantità consumata, il…

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Diversity and critical sense – Diversità e senso critico

Diversity, including cultural diversity, is intrinsic to human beings. It’s not to be confused, however, with the need for belonging, which can become identity and which is declined in different ways - national, tribal, religious, sports, etc. -, and which,…

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Fabio Imperiale

Fabio Imperiale è nato nel 1981 a Roma, dove tuttora vive e lavora.Nel 2003 consegue il diploma professionale in grafica pubblicitaria ed illustrazione.Si avvicina alla pittura nel 2004. Nel 2008 è tra i soci fondatori di Traslochi ad Arte, con…

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Cultural Commons. A New Perspective on the Production and Evolution of Cultures

Cultural Commons. A New Perspective on the Production and Evolution of Cultures è una raccolta di saggi che offre una nuova prospettiva per lo studio delle dinamiche culturali - interdisciplinare (economica, giuridica e antropologica) e originale - derivata dall’applicazione della…

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Monitoraggio e controllo della gestione dei siti UNESCO. Il piano di gestione come opportunità mancata?

Questo articolo presenta un quadro dell’attuale situazione nazionale dei sistemi di gestione dei siti UNESCO dichiarati “patrimonio mondiale dell’umanità”. L’Italia, il paese più rappresentato nella lista, si trova al momento ad affrontare una difficile crisi economica, che coinvolge anche i…

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Mobile technologies: new ways to access tourism, culture and cities

The use of mobile devices and related technologies offers a great opportunity for cultural institutions to enhance and support visitors’ experience. Smartphones and tablets allow users to access contents ubiquitously using high-performance computing, embedded tools, fast wireless connectivity, and wider…

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Which oil for culture? – Quale olio per la cultura?

Because of the economic crisis that marks not only Italy, but also many of the European countries and not, and that has led and will lead to a drastic reduction in the resources allocated to the cultural system it’s necessary,…

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La conoscenza come bene comune. Dalla teoria alla pratica

Il volume “La conoscenza come bene comune. Dalla teoria alla pratica” rappresenta uno dei capisaldi su cui si fondano le teorie di quanti vedono nell’avvento delle nuove tecnologie il superamento della tradizionale logica gutenberghiana, a favore di una visione dell’accesso…

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Custodire, condividere, partecipare il futuro

L’Europa è un continente che invecchia rapidamente. In prospettiva, guardando verso il 2020, è possibile mettere in campo nuovi indirizzi e nuove idee per una migliore qualità della vita degli anziani e per un patto reale di solidarietà tra le…

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Filiera dell’industria musicale e nuovi modelli di business in Italia

Il settore della musica è sempre stato identificato con il più ristretto mercato discografico, seppure molte altre attività economiche ne facciano pienamente parte, in quanto senza la musica non esisterebbero o non avrebbero lo stesso valore. Attraverso un modello che…

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Emerging Culture: Weak Labels vs. Strong Views

For many years culture has been too slow: static, self-celebrating, devoted to a club of presumed cultivated individuals; the convention used to consider culture as the source of spiritual value, therefore objective and eternal. Slow culture cannot evolve. Recently what…

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Atelier di Pittura Adriano e Michele

E’ giunto alla sesta edizione il progetto Acrobazie ideato nel 2004 con l’obiettivo di creare relazioni e vicinanze tra il mondo dell’arte contemporanea, i giovani artisti, e l’arte outsider prodotta dagli autori dell’Atelier di Pittura Adriano e Michele, attivo dal…

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Concepts and categories of emotion in East Asia

Inspired on the seventh May Symposia, an annual conference held at the Lecce University to discuss the connections between values and emotions in East Asia, and edited by Giusi Tamburello herself, 14 scholars of distinctive experience and insight contribute to…

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Le catastrofi naturali non esistono

Da sempre la domanda è la stessa: perché si torna a vivere dove il terremoto scuote la terra, dove il vulcano erutta o lo tsunami si gonfia? La risposta non è così semplice e va data inquadrandola nella sua prospettiva…

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Territori fragili. La cura come pratica di progetto

Il nostro è un territorio fragile perché lavoriamo sempre, e male, in un’ottica di emergenza, realizzando sistemi di difesa al posto di interventi strutturali.

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Projects for the regeneration of places and communities: the Japanese experience

The disaster in the Great East Japan in 2011 has brought the country several problems in its reconstruction, such as defining how to structure provisional housing, how to recover the regional economy, and how and where to settle the new…

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The role of communities in post-disaster reconstruction. A call for owner-driven approaches

In this paper I argue that community participation in reconstruction remains little more than a slogan as long as decision-making power and control over resources remains with the reconstruction agency. Only if and when people have control over the building…

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A tale of three cities and three earthquake disasters

The purpose of this article is to present the results of a brief analysis of the short and medium-term aftermaths of three earthquakes that have occurred in different parts of the world: at L'Aquila, central Italy, on April 6 2009;…

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Le Cinque Terre: piano integrato di ricostruzione economica e sociale

I drammatici eventi alluvionali che hanno così duramente colpito i borghi di Vernazza e Monterosso al Mare nelle Cinque Terre, impongono l’attuazione di un piano di rinascita che sia capace da un lato, di rispondere ai bisogni contingenti della Comunità…

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Restaurare e ricostruire: problematiche del dopo-sisma aquilano

La mancanza di un indirizzo omogeneo caratterizza metodo, dinamiche e responsabilità dell’attività post-sismica in Italia, quasi che non esistano problematiche ricorrenti, di carattere sociale, economico-finanziario, gestionale, tecnico-operativo.

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L’eccezionale rinascita delle città del Val di Noto dopo il terremoto del 1693. Un caso unico a livello europeo

In seguito al terremoto del 1693, uno dei più devastanti che la Sicilia abbia conosciuto nel corso dei secoli, il Val di Noto è oggetto di un fenomeno di ricostruzione senza precedenti.

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Il costruito italiano: tipologie, problematiche, interventi pre e post sisma

La sicurezza sismica degli edifici non può prescindere dalla conoscenza dei luoghi in cui questi sono inseriti e dalla storia e tradizioni che hanno determinato tecniche costruttive, modalità di realizzazioni, modificazioni spazio-temporali. Il costruito italiano, soprattutto nei piccoli centri, ha…

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Emergenza e prevenzione

Le emergenze in Italia sono numerose e possono dipendere dalla neve o dalla pioggia, dalle frane o dai terremoti. “Emergenza” ha anche il significato di “circostanza imprevista” ma gli eventi di natura emergenziale in Italia non sono mai imprevisti.

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KIZUNA, uniting people

Il Centro di ricerca Fo.Cu.S , Sapienza, Università di Roma ha organizzato il convegno “Ri-costruzioni” con l’obiettivo di evidenziare come gran parte del patrimonio storico italiano (in particolare quello dei piccoli centri storici) sia aggredito, ormai da anni, da eventi…

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Il pubblico del teatro sociale

“Oggi più che mai si ha bisogno di un Teatro” e non di un teatro qualsiasi ma di un teatro sociale. Questa sembra essere l’affermazione cardine da cui si sviluppa “Il pubblico del teatro sociale”, volume in cui la sapiente…

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Do books matter? The impact of reading upon cultural capital

Why do we like so much to read? The American writer Christopher Morley tells that “when you sell a book to a person, you do not sell just twelve ounces of paper, ink and glue, you sell a whole new…

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Ilaria Demonti

Viaggia per immagini. Esplorando il campo dell’illustrazione, ama raccontare disegnando. ilariademonti.wordpress.com

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Creare capacità. Liberarsi dalla dittatura del Pil

Il Prodotto interno lordo (Pil) continua a dominare il mondo dello sviluppo e della politica perché offre l’illusione di fornire una misura esatta della qualità della vita di una nazione. Sovvertendo tale impianto teorico, Martha C. Nussbaum invita a riflettere…

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Developing a museum brand to enhance awareness and secure financial stability

Facing severe budget cuts, fierce competition, and being compelled to demonstrate their worth in terms of current policy to maintain ongoing funding, museums are now appraised by the experiences and benefits they generate as much as by the collections and…

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Measuring the economic impact of CCIs policies

The proposed benchmarking raster is a tool aimed at assessing the creative potential of cities and regions and selecting the best policy measures to support the sector. It should be used by local and regional actors to show decision-makers the…

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The Sacred and the Vulgar

Last month Richard Florida released a new edition of his famously controversial book, "The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited”. Now that the business world is interested in creativity, the new edition could, potentially, outsell the first edition many times…

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Atmosfera creativa

Pochi argomenti hanno conosciuto una diffusione tanto estesa e veloce quanto la creatività. Il presente volume, curato da Enrico Bertacchini e Walter Santagata - rispettivamente responsabile delle ricerche e vice presidente del centro Studi Silvia Santagata-Ebla - analizza i fenomeni…

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Manifesto per la sostenibilità culturale

Monica Amari, esperta di politiche e processi culturali, è l’autrice del volume “Manifesto per la sostenibilità culturale. E se, un giorno, un ministro dell’economia venisse incriminato per violazione dei diritti culturali?”, testo che prima che una riflessione sulle dinamiche politico-economiche…

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A practitioner’s viewpoint in integrated Place Branding: four principles and some thoughts

This article tries to bridge the gap between place branding theory and practice. It takes the viewpoint of the practitioner and juxtaposes recent literature with work experience. It focuses on four basic principles underpinning a consultant’s work in place branding:…

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Il crowdfunding: tra autoproduzione e social commerce, storia dello strumento che potrebbe cambiare le regole del fare impresa

Crowdfunding, una parola che ne contiene molte altre: crescita, idee, racconto, confronto, progetti, cultura, rete, innovazione, socialità, finanziamento. Analizzare la genesi del fenomeno serve a comprendere come si sia trasformato, nell'arco di soli due anni, nella promessa più concreta di…

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A cultural elsewhere

Many things are occurring in the cultural system. While scholars try to understand the features of the emerging paradigm, in the real world things simply happen: maybe the problems are quite the same as before, but the needs are certainly…

A ognuno la sua pArte. Quale contributo la cultura può dare all’economia?

Domenica 27 maggio 2012. Museo di Santa Caterina, Treviso - h.14.30-18.00. Dalla consapevolezza del proprio ruolo e dalla disponibilità a collaborare nasce la proposta di incontro tra operatori culturali ed operatori economici per delineare una prospettiva condivisa e possibile per…

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Workshop sull’economia della cultura

Lunedì 20 dicembre 2010. Mercati di Traiano, Roma. Scopo primario dell’iniziativa, che scaturisce da una riflessione avviata all’interno del Comitato Scientifico di Tafter Journal è la creazione di un laboratorio permanente di riflessione critica, progettazione e indirizzo in merito all’economia…

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Manifesto sulle strategie e sulle politiche culturali italiane

Lunedì 19 dicembre 2011. Triennale, Milano. Questa uscita pubblica del think tank epos è dedicata alla presentazione del manifesto sulle strategie e sulle politiche culturali italiane, inteso come base progettuale per la costituzione di un laboratorio permanente che possa operare…

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Addio al Sud. Un comizio furioso del disamore

“Addio al Sud. Un comizio furioso del disamore” di Angelo Mellone è un libro che va letto con cauto rispetto. Sarebbe un errore intenderlo l’ennesimo manifesto pro - o anti - meridionale. Basta con i luoghi comuni: il Sud di…

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An apparent instability may actually guarantee a future: the World Youth Orchestra case

Given the substancial changes that are happening in the cultural sector in the recent years due to the unstable economic-political environment and the challenges that today’s society arises, the need for cultural organizations to engage in more spontaneous and more…

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L’essenziale è invisibile agli occhi. I pubblici e il loro lavoro nell’economia della cultura

Marialuisa Stazio, docente di Sociologia della Comunicazione e Sociologia dei processi culturali all’Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale, esplora in questo libro una zona della comunicazione essenziale e allo stesso tempo invisibile, cioè gli investimenti di tempo,…

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Gioconda 2.0: politiche per l’accesso e l’uso delle immagini di beni culturali in pubblico dominio

La digitalizzazione delle immagini e la rete internet offrono oggi nuove opportunità attraverso soluzioni tecniche innovative, che possono ampliare fortemente l’accesso e soprattutto l’uso e il riuso dei contenuti digitali delle collezioni museali. Questo articolo offre una panoramica sui nuovi…

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Passeggiate-racconto al museo, un approccio ludico all’arte

La mediazione culturale cerca di convincere i pubblici restii ad entrare nei musei d'arte a praticare tale tipo di attività. Negli ultimi sette-otto anni, il racconto è diventato una delle attività che riesce meglio di altre ad attirare i visitatori…

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Godere e diffondere conoscenza e amore per il patrimonio culturale

Evocando un sagace slogan di qualche tempo fa del sempre benemerito FAI (Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano), che recitava più o meno così: “conservi ciò che ami, ami ciò che conosci”, si può dire che conoscenza, ri-conoscenza e affetto verso le…

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Il management del simbolico come fattore di sviluppo. Le politiche per la cultura nella Provincia Autonoma di Trento

Il seminario “Management dell’arte e della cultura. Nuove vie per valorizzare l’autonomia del simbolico come fattore di sviluppo” organizzato da tsm - Trentino School of Management in collaborazione con l’Assessorato alla Cultura della Provincia autonoma di Trento, svoltosi nell’estate 2011,…

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Can culture be social?

This paper is about an unusual event, organized twice a year in a Northern Italian city, Bologna. The event takes place in a condominium and lasts all night long. It involves all the apartments in the condominium and takes form…

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Economia dei media

Giuseppe Richeri, professore ordinario di Economia dei media e direttore dell'Istituto Media e Giornalismo all'Università della Svizzera Italiana di Lugano, ha scelto di fornire alcuni strumenti semplici ma efficaci per investigare gli aspetti economici del settore dei media, spesso trascurati…

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Arte migrante a Milano e Provincia: le reti come strumento d’integrazione e come sfida per rilanciare il sistema dell’arte contemporanea milanese

Questo articolo intende presentare la nuova realtà dell’arte migrante a Milano e Provincia, fenomeno manifestatosi a partire dagli anni Settanta del secolo scorso, per illustrarne problematiche e potenzialità. Dopo aver definito i concetti di “arte straniera” e “arte migrante”, verranno…

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Città polifoniche. Visualizzazione di User Generated Content geo-localizzati a supporto della comprensione dei fenomeni urbani

In un mondo sempre più denso di informazioni, che si riempie di sensori e di tracce digitali; in città i cui spazi, flussi, persone e dati si intrecciano quotidianamente, come osservare, interpretare e restituire le dinamiche intangibili che circondano e…

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Il mondo secondo Gauss: geo-localizzazione e riferimenti del territorio

Due temi, connessi alle infrastrutture sensoriali delle città, ci riconducono alla considerazione dell’importanza dei riferimenti su cui poggiano le rappresentazioni della realtà in cui viviamo. In una smart city, entità ancora non ben definita, ma fortemente percepita, voluta, promossa e…

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Seeking Wisdom in the Kingdom of Established Labels and Digital Spirits

An interview with Hwiemtun, Fred Roland, a Sweat lodge Keeper, intercultural teacher and global traveler.

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L’arte al tempo dei media. Profili e tendenze della scena artistica italiana

Una ricerca volta a far emergere gli aspetti più intimi della figura dell’artista contemporaneo: cosa fa e come, e l’importanza che la percezione del sé ha nel processo creativo e comunicativo dell’artista.

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Disimparare l’Arte. Manuale di antididattica

“Disimparare l’Arte. Manuale di antididattica” è il terzo volume edito da il Mulino di Serena Giordano, artista e docente all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Genova. Un mirabile pamphlet su come le cosiddette istituzioni culturali contribuiscano alla mistificazione, mortificazione e decadimento…

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Emanuele Scoppola

Di formazione letteraria e giornalista di professione, ha iniziato l’attività artistica nel 1993. Attivo soprattutto nel campo della poesia visiva e della ceramica, ha esposto i suoi lavori con mostre personali e collettive in Italia, Francia e Germania. I quadri…

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Torino aka la paura di diventare grandi

Questo articolo, attraverso un breve e personale excursus storico-sociale e un paio di case studies, che hanno dimostrato la capacità innovativa di ripensare lo spazio urbano e le relazioni tra cittadini, tenta di dare una lettura della situazione e dei…

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Pubblico e privato nella gestione museale: Italia e Francia a confronto

Il panorama culturale europeo negli ultimi anni si è trovato ad affrontare una serie di problematiche di carattere economico-finanziario che, per quanto riguarda in particolare l’ambito museale, ha visto i paesi reagire tramite la ricerca di soluzioni differenti ma identiche…

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Sistemi generatori e organizzatori di cultura

Quali sono i sistemi generatori e organizzatori di cultura: questa è la domanda alla base dei due contributi, l’uno di Valeria Dell’Aquila, l’altro di Fabiana Lanfranconi, che suscitano riflessioni e spunti diversi ma interessanti. Il primo dei due contributi assume…

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Manifesto degli economisti sgomenti. Capire e superare la crisi

22 soluzioni alternative per 10 false certezze: è questa la ricetta proposta da un folto gruppo di economisti - che si autodefiniscono “sgomenti” - per porre rimedio all’attuale crisi economica che rischia di travolgere tutto e tutti. I firmatari del…

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Culture di paesi terzi: le biblioteche di Timbuctù e la luce del Sahara. Un caso studio

Africa. Il contente della tradizione orale ha nascosto nelle sabbie del Sahara un tesoro inestimabile. I manoscritti in lingua araba di Timbuctù sono testimoni di una cultura scritta che ha animato questa zona del Sahel in epoca medioevale. I proprietari…

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La ricerca di autenticità nel processo di visita museale

In un periodo in cui la crisi economica e lo spaesamento della politica non sono in grado di assicurare alla popolazione gli standard di vita a cui è stata abituata e in cui è pressante la necessità di ridisegnare modelli…

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Non è un museo per tutti

La definizione ICOM di museo, elaborata durante l’Assemblea Generale di Seul, ormai risalente al 2004, fa emergere chiaramente le due funzioni primarie dell’istituzione: quella di conservare manufatti, oggetti, opere e quella di trasmettere cultura e diletto. Dalla definizione emerge anche…

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Starchitecture. Scene, attori e spettacoli nelle città contemporanee

Con la costruzione del Guggenheim Museum la città di Bilbao è divenuta il simbolo incontrastato della star architecture. Analizzando in maniera critica il fenomeno della spettacolarizzazione in campo architettonico, il volume offre una inedita interpretazione dei processi che hanno portato…

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Le potenzialità della valutazione nel rapporto impresa-cultura: riflessioni sullo stato dell’arte in Italia

La contrazione subita dai finanziamenti per la cultura in Italia ha sollevato, tra il 2008 e il 2011, un interessante dibattito sul rapporto impresa-cultura mettendo in rilievo l'urgenza di porre mano ai problemi che da tempo lo contraddistinguono. Una delle…

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Place Branding and Place Identity. An integrated approach

Place Branding is based on a very elusive concept of place identity that needs to be re-examined. An understanding of place as simultaneously absolute, relative and relational on the one hand and as the “coexistence of difference” on the other,…

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Orientamenti

Quando si parla di cultura si finisce per mettere a fuoco il concetto di identità. Sono proprio le cose (beni, attività, idee) senza identità o con elementi parziali e insufficienti a farci escludere che si tratti di cultura. Stiamo maneggiando…

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Dulco Mazzoleni

38 anni. Felicemente sposato. Laurea in Filosofia. Educatore. Cantautore. Grafico satirico. fulvo.blogspot.com

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Città e regioni nel nuovo capitalismo. L’economia sociale delle metropoli

Dalla deindustrializzazione all’affermarsi del capitalismo della cultura e della conoscenza, il volume affronta i cambiamenti in atto nelle città contemporanee, mettendo in evidenza le interazioni esistenti tra economia e società nello spazio urbano.

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Spatialisation of urban culture in a large-scale event: urban visions and the program of Tallinn 2011 European Capital of Culture

The study discusses examples from the three periods, which are represented by certain texts in the process of Tallinn becoming ECoC. Texts are included from 2005 (artistic reflections), 2008 (the city’s proposal), and 2010 (the program). Thus the paper considers…

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European Capital of Culture as a regional development tool? The case of Marseille-Provence 2013

In 2013 Marseille-Provence will hold the title European Capital of Culture (ECoC). Marseilles, the lead city in the bid, is significantly larger and poorer than the other urban districts included in the project. In common with a number of other…

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Pécs2010: borderless culture?

On 19th October 2005 Pécs, one of the cities in Hungary with the greatest cultural heritage, was designated as European Capital of Culture (ECOC) for the year 2010, together with Istanbul and Essen. The following pages aim at detecting the…

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From Brussels 2000 to the plan culturel (cultuurplan). Localising a European initiative to cultural policies in Brussels

Brussels 2000 reflects a moment in contemporary Brussels when the divided Franco-Flemish Communities came together to plan and promote a common cultural agenda. Though few projects of Brussels 2000 remain, individual and institutional actors continue to collaborate, but without a…

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Liverpool 2008 : capital of whose culture? The cities on the edge project

This paper aims at showing a contrasting vision and image between a particular project realized during the Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008 and the official one depicted in the bid and brought forward by the Liverpool Culture Company. The…

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Culture and urban space in academic research projects of Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture

Even though most European Capitals of Culture (ECoC) have been university cities, academic research has seldom played much of a role in their programmes. The case of the Finnish city of Turku, European Capital of Culture 2011, is different. The…

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What’s the “city” in the design and implementation of the European Capital of Culture? An open issue

The European Capital of Culture (ECoC) is a long-standing programme that invites visibility for a cultural mega-event that aims to highlight the richness and diversity of European cultures and the features they share, and also to promote greater mutual knowledge…

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Turismo responsabile e CSR. Guida e confronto tra programmi di valutazione per uno sviluppo sostenibile

Conclusione del progetto europeo EARTH, il testo Turismo Responsabile e CSR rappresenta un prezioso contributo per rispondere alle numerose domande derivanti da un’inadeguata conoscenza del ruolo che la responsabilità sociale ricopre nel settore dell’industria turistica, definendo cosa si intende per…

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Silvana Battistello

Nata a Sandrigo (VI) nel 1974 ha frequentato l’Istituto Statale d’Arte “G. De Fabris” di Nove (VI) e successivamente ha conseguito la laurea in Conservazione dei Beni Culturali presso l’Università di Udine. Anche durante gli studi universitari, ha continuato a…

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La valorizzazione del Patrimonio culturale: verso la definizione di un modello di governance

La valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale è un tema multidisciplinare, per la cui lettura ed analisi è necessario un approccio capace di conciliare competenze economiche, manageriali ed umanistiche. Il volume “La valorizzazione del Patrimonio culturale: verso la definizione di un modello…

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Il contributo della cultura per la crescita dell’occupazione

In questo articolo si vuole mettere in luce il possibile contributo dell’occupazione culturale alle strategie di crescita del nostro paese. Attraverso le statistiche culturali dell’Eurostat vengono messi a confronto i paesi europei, al fine di evidenziare l’anomalia della situazione italiana:…

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The evolution of cultural consumption and successful strategies for sustainable cultural management

The evolution of cultural consumption can generate important opportunities. A deeper understanding of the phenomenon can help public administrators, institutions and private organisations to create sustainable strategies for development. The paper describes the change occurring in the features of the…

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La rivoluzione copernicana che aspettiamo da tempo

Mi fa piacere constatare che esistono giovani ricercatori che lavorano quotidianamente senza avere paura degli errori o dei limiti in cui necessariamente può incorrere chi si applica a tale attività e che questa costatazione mi ha generato una speranza. La…

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Fondazioni bancarie: una grande riforma da consolidare

Una raccolta di saggi per raccontare la realtà de iure e de facto dell’istituto delle fondazioni bancarie, fenomeno dagli anni ‘90 al centro di dibattiti legislativi, giurisprudenziali e dottrinali, e che ancora oggi non smette di essere controverso.

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Riccardo Guasco

Riccardo Guasco aka “rik”, fumettista, illustratore e pittore. Nato ad Alessandria nel 1975, ha frequentato l’istituto Statale d’arte di Asti e successivamente il Corso di Decorazione presso l’Accademia d’arte di Torino. Ha lavorato da subito nel campo dell’illustrazione per ragazzi…

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Domare gli dei. Religione e democrazia in tre continenti

Ian Buruma costruisce un percorso di indagine teorica sul rapporto tra autorità politica e autorità religiosa e su come questo influenzi il nascere e il perdurare di una democrazia. Il testo contestualizza il tema in Europa, Stati Uniti, Cina e…

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Le nuove frontiere della produzione: la digital fabrication

Lo sviluppo tecnologico e la diffusione dei digital fabricators – macchine che consentono di fabbricare oggetti tridimensionali da file digitali in un unico processo, simile alla stampa – ha reso negli ultimi tempi più sottile la distinzione tra prototipo usato…

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Inspiring principles for liveable and sustainable residential neighbourhoods

Several European peripheral urban areas, built after WWII, suffer from livability issues. This is also true for numerous residential neighbourhoods in Italy where, despite all the interventions carried out so far, innovative design strategies are still needed. Decline processes in…

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L’Italia non è solo un “disastro”…

Recentemente sono stata a Lecce, per lavoro. Non vi ero mai stata prima. Alloggiata in un albergo “fuori le mura” sono arrivata in tarda notte. La mattina dopo mi sono avviata, a piedi, in centro. Dappprima mi è parso di…

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Museum Innovation: European state-of-the art, techniques, and approaches

Is interactivity pre-eminently a technological prerogative, or can hands-on, “mechanical,” and “face-to-face” methods be equally successful on the cognitive, sensorial, and emotional levels? More and more, to achieve a relevant use of technology, museums have started to adopt holograms, “talking…

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Luoghi e oggetti della memoria. Valorizzare il Patrimonio culturale. Studio di casi in Italia e Giordania

Partendo dalla constatazione che la molteplicità di aspetti che riguardano la valorizzazione del Patrimonio culturale, materiale e immateriale, è sovente trascurata, l’antropologa Lucilla Rami Ceci ha raccolto una serie di saggi per presentare il tema in chiave multidisciplinare. Attraverso il…

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Chiara Vercesi

Nata a Milano nel 1984. Dopo il liceo artistico, si è diplomata in Illustrazione e animazione multimediale all’Istituto Europeo di Design di Milano e si è trasferita a Pavia dove lavora come illustratrice freelance da 5 anni. Ha collaborato con…

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Luoghi e forme del turismo rurale. Evidenze empiriche in Irpinia

Sovente confuso con l’ecoturismo, il turismo verde e il turismo enogastronomico, il turismo rurale stenta a conquistare una propria autonomia. Il volume scritto da Angela Cresta e Ilaria Greco esplora il fenomeno del turismo rurale, indagandone gli aspetti generali. Attraverso…

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The Street Project. Per una nuova relazione tra museo, arte e pubblico

The Street è un laboratorio di arte pubblica durato tre anni, iniziato nel 2008 da Whitechapel Gallery, istituzione culturale non profit fondata nel 1901 nell’Est End, un’area di Londra a est della City. L’analisi del case history rappresentato da The…

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Archeologia industriale, creativita’ e gestione integrata. Il caso biellese

Architettura, urbanistica, design, arte, cultura, creatività, sviluppo economico sono solo alcuni degli elementi che affiorano alla mente, allorquando pensiamo al complesso puzzle degli interventi di riqualificazione urbana di un contesto metropolitano. Da diverso tempo, infatti, l’economia è stata accostata al…

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Dove va la cultura? Un sestante per il futuro

Stiamo seppellendo un mondo che ci sembrava perfetto ed era soltanto anabolizzato. La cosa dura ormai da un poco, ma soltanto negli ultimi mesi è diventata talmente forte e intensa da non poter fare più finta di niente. E non…

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Antonio La Malfa

Nasce a Palermo nel 1974 e si definisce artista autodidatta. Disegnatore freelance ama sperimentare tecniche sempre diverse senza dare limiti alla creatività. Predilige collage e acrilico ed è specializzato in illustrazioni per l’infanzia e in pop-up. Collabora con case editrici…

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Altri scenari. Verso il distretto dell’economia sociale

Il volume collettaneo, curato da Alberto Merler, offre al lettore un’alternativa agli scenari economici e sociali propri del paradigma capitalista. Partendo dalla presentazione del progetto “Altri scenari”, gli autori dei diversi contributi evidenziano le caratteristiche salienti di un “Distretto dell’Economia…

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Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA). La rinascita del Bronx passa dalla cultura

Il contributo racconta e illustra, tramite l’esperienza diretta di uno stage effettuato dall’autore, l’organizzazione del Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA). La struttura, operativa nel territorio del Bronx, si occupa direttamente o indirettamente della stragrande maggioranza delle attività culturali operanti…

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Se ha funzionato nel Bronx…

Quello che serve complessivamente al nostro Paese è senz’altro l’individuazione delle priorità delle politiche culturali su scala nazionale e la loro indispensabile modulazione particolare su scala regionale e locale, mantenendo, però il minimo comun denominatore della “rinascita” identitaria, sociale e,…

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Spazio urbano e spazio teatrale nell’organizzazione dello spettacolo dal vivo

Lo spazio delle città accoglie, com’è noto, luoghi molteplici per funzione e forma. In questo quadro, i teatri occupano da sempre un posto di rilievo. Tuttavia, alla luce dei differenti modi di organizzare l’ambientazione e la collocazione dei luoghi di…

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Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing, edito da Luca Sossella, è un saggio a cura di Jeff Howe che affronta la rivoluzione del crowdsourcing come nuova modalità di gestione partecipativa delle dinamiche aziendali. Si tratta di una brillante istantanea del passaggio epocale a cui stiamo…

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Tommaso D’Incalci

Nato a Torino nel 1973. Nel 2005 è stato selezionato per la mostra degli illustratori alla Fiera del Libro per ragazzi di Bologna con un progetto sul libro della Genesi. Ha collaborato e collabora con le case editrici Il Pozzo…

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Economia e Gestione dei Musei

Economia e Gestione dei Musei, edito da Aracne Editrice, è una pubblicazione curata da Gerald Matt e Alessia Zorloni da intendersi come una guida pratica per la gestione museale, finalizzata alla produzione di un’offerta culturale di alto livello qualitativo e…

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Patrimonio Mondiale UNESCO: la tensione tra valore universale e interessi nazionali

La Lista del Patrimonio Mondiale UNESCO rappresenta oggi il più efficace strumento internazionale di conservazione e tutela di un bene pubblico globale che include alcuni tra i più importanti tesori culturali e naturali esistenti al mondo. Tuttavia, dopo quasi 40…

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Architettura dell’informazione e design museale

Più che una disciplina a sé stante, l’architettura dell’informazione costituisce un sapere di confine che si muove in modo complesso fra discipline più classiche come la bilblioteconomia, la linguistica e l’architettura, e discipline più nuove come la scienza e la…

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Convention, atomi e bit

La recente riunione annuale della World Heritage Convention ha portato venticinque nuove nomination per i Siti Mondiali Unesco, ma anche molte polemiche, come quella della Tailandia che ha minacciato di denunciare la Convention poiché un suo sito, il Temple of…

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Culture as a cognitive approach

When two individuals are exposed to the same artistic product (a painting, a movie, a poem) they can have quite different reactions to it. Such reactions tend to be of two separate kinds: on one hand, there is the simply…

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Senza architettura. Le ragioni di una crisi

C’è ancora spazio per l’architettura contemporanea in Italia? Perché in tempi recenti gli studi di architettura italiani sono scomparsi dalla scena internazionale? Quali sono le cause che frenano il successo dei nostri progettisti e l’ingresso delle nuove generazioni di architetti…

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Nicola Destefanis

Nasce ad Alba nel 1981. Studia grafica e pubblicità allo IED di Torino. Appena affaciatosi al mondo dell’advertising conosce internet e resta affascinato dalle dinamiche di un mezzo di comunicazione così potente e spontaneo. Attualmente vive e lavora a Torino…

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La semplessità

La complessità sta per cedere il passo alla “semplessità”. Le caratteristiche principali di questo inedito concetto sono al centro dell’ultimo saggio di Alain Berthoz, il quale ponendo le basi di una nuova teoria, cerca di offrire una soluzione alternativa alle…

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Il friend raising: programmi di membership e sostenibilità finanziaria. Il caso Uovo performing arts festival

L’evoluzione del quadro istituzionale, economico e socio-culturale costringe le organizzazioni di spettacolo ad individuare nuovi modelli di sviluppo in grado di rispondere ai criteri di sostenibilità economico-finanziaria. Ma quali sono gli strumenti a disposizione delle piccole imprese culturali italiane? Con…

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Megaproyectos en tiempos de crisis: el caso de España

En una España devastada por la crisis, la continuidad de ciertas grandes infraestructuras culturales en construcción está en tela de juicio. Después de 20 años de edificación intensiva de museos de arte contemporáneo, de salas de conciertos o de teatros,…

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Ecosistemi culturali emergenti

Che la realtà stia cambiando pochi hanno il coraggio di negarlo. Siamo dentro un mutamento epocale: parte dalla fine conclamata del paradigma economico e sociale che ci ha confortati per oltre due secoli, passa attraverso nuove consapevolezze e responsabilità, approda…

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In cammino nel paesaggio: questioni di geografia e urbanistica

Nel volume dal titolo In cammino nel paesaggio: questioni di geografia e urbanistica, Arturo Lanzani tratta i temi del paesaggio e del suo rapporto con l’urbanistica contemporanea. Ne delinea i tratti distintivi e propone una chiave interpretativa funzionale a uno…

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Danilo Musci

Nato nel 1989 a Ceglie Messapica (BR), è un illustratore, animatore e web designer, formatosi da autodidatta. Attualmente lavora come collaboratore per professionisti ed aziende operanti nel campo della comunicazione. http://danilomusci.com/

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Mente e paesaggio. Una teoria della vivibilità

Il nostro pianeta non è mai stato così vicino al collasso come in questo momento, complice la presenza dell’uomo che in nome di una presunta superiorità rispetto alle altre specie, ha smesso di sentirsi parte del proprio ecosistema per disporre…

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