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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.…

Managing Culture for creating impacts

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…

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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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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…

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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…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

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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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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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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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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…

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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…

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…

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…

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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?

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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…

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.

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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…

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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…

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!

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…