social innovation – Tafter Journal

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…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Innovation, Opportunity and Social Entrepreneurship

What actually makes a project or a company accountable with needs of society? And how the NGO or culture-driven organization could possibly avoid waste of resources and strive to deliver more socially responsible outcomes?

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

The role of culture in society

In an age of insecurity and inequality, the capacity of culture to generate positive impacts seems to be a certainty. Over the past years, an increasing number of studies have analysed the cultural and creative industries’ realm with the aim…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Social Innovation and the Arts. Artists alone are not enough!

While social innovation begins to be broadly embraced by policy-makers and scholars in the context of healthcare and education, hardly any research has been done in the fields of the arts and culture (Mulgan et al., 2007). This paper aims…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

The importance of being innovative

The 21st century will be remembered as the century of creativity and innovation: from performing arts to manufacturing, from education to trade finance, all economic sectors - both conventional and unconventional - need to be creative and innovative in order…