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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…

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…

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…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

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…

Technology for Culture - Culture for Technology

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…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

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…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

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…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

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…

Topics of Interest

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…

Calls for papers

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!