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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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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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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…

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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…

Managing Culture for creating impacts

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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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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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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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,…

Managing Culture for creating impacts

Ecclesiastical Museums: an important opportunity for cultural networks and territories

Managing Culture for creating impacts

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…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

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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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.…

Managing Culture for creating impacts

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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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…