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Technology for Culture - Culture for Technology

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…

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.

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…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

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…

Gestire cultura

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…