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Analisi e discussione critica sulle tematiche legate all’evoluzione e alle prospettive future dell’industria creativa, nonché alle trasformazioni del suo statuto giuridico, economico e sociale.

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…

Not all that connects is the Internet

The Internet and the empowerment coming from new technologies, such as social media, are more than appealing. It is engaging and almost unavoidable. The Internet is now crucial for the circulation, promotion, and engagement process for many art organisations. Nevertheless,…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

The revolution of Eco Art

In these weeks, ending on 20th December, Reggio Calabria is hosting “Exhibition of recycled materials and eco-design”, the first Eco Art event ever realised in southern Italy. Promoted by the Department of Environmental Policies of the province of Reggio Calabria,…

What markets for young dancers? The Venice Biennale projects

From an external point-of-view the dance, as a high quality and professional form of performing arts and not as recreational activity, appears not really popular and diffused in our theatres, towns and, more broadly, in our personal experience. The last…

Social Enterprises in the Cultural Sector. The UK case

The global recession is changing societal structures and priorities at all levels and cultural organisations in the UK - as in many other countries - need to find new alternative ways to ensure their survival and financial sustainability. This article…

Virtual museums

Starting from a synthetic definition we can consider virtual museums as either the digital multimedia reproduction of an existing museum, based upon virtual reality techniques, or the ex novo creation of a museum structure and experience not existing in reality.…

Free Online Music Sharing: irreversible and beneficial

Nowadays, more than ever, music is ubiquitous and it became an integrant part of people’s everyday life and this is mainly the merit of free online music sharing, that can be defined as the distribution of digitally stored music or…

Creativity: a proposed taxonomy

Creativity is at stake in the whole world. Many recent analyses have been carried out in various Countries, being aimed at defining, measuring and evaluating creativity and its impact upon the economy and welfare; they adopt quite different views, draw…
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