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Italian culture: The need for emancipation from political dynamics

The recent incident involving the former Minister of Culture, Sangiuliano, risks slowing down public and private investments in the cultural and creative industries cluster, a sector of paramount importance for the country’s economic and social development. This situation highlights an…

Mind the Gap

The cultural sector needs managers. There is no other reason why the cultural sector is not the great thing of this era. The entire sector has changed since Europe acknowledged culture as one of the most interesting future industries. Analyses,…

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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.…

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How sublime theory could teach us when an urban renewal project could really work

In 2005, in “A discussion between two architects”, Gharib Abbas and Bahram Shirdel, defined the expression “post-contemporary”, as a “forward-looking aesthetic philosophy distinguished by a re-constructive, global, human ethos which posits that the aesthetic experience is universal to humanity and…

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Culture and War: more than an aristocratic pastime

In this number of Tafter Journal, we will not cover war reflections neither we will talk about the claimed relevance of culture within the overall geopolitical equilibrium. We’re rather covering reflections and stories about two of the main derivative topics…

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Culture is coming, maybe.

It’s clear that in the next years, our society will experience a great technological shift: there is plenty of great-new-things next door, and most of them are based upon one word: “content”. It is the case of the metaverse or…

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Enabling Culture in enabling development

This number of Tafter Journal reflects on “music”, and “music industry” as two distinct but, after all, clearly connected phenomena, by highlighting the mutual relationship between "contemporary cultural content" and "contemporary cultural industry". Since human beings became citizens of a…

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The medium does not equal the message

While Europe is involved in facing the social and economic difficulties heightened by the pandemic, there are several innovations that are ready to be implemented and to be part of our daily lives. Among them, public debate pays great attention…

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Reality calls to a new interpretation of culture

In Italy, one of the most widespread interpretations of the cultural role in our lives and societies, affecting also the interpretation of cultural heritage and production, tends to create a visible division between the role of public bodies and private…

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Versus the superstars

In discussing the general influence of economic progress on value, Alfred Marshall wrote: The relative fall in the incomes to be earned by moderate ability... is accentuated by the rise in those that are obtained by many men of…

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Should the Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage play a major role in the cultural offer of a territory?

In the wide framework of cultural resources present on a territory, there are still instruments and assets that, for multiple reasons, do not enter in traditional mixed offer of a city or a region. Ecclesiastical cultural heritage is often part…

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The emerging industries in our complex scenario

In 2019, the European Panorama for Cluster published the report “Emerging Industries: Driving strength in 10 cross-sectoral industries". Even though the social and economic conjuncture changed rapidly for the Covid-19 pandemic, this report highlights some structural features of our economic…

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How the art market should look like?

COVID-19 affected numerous dimensions of our lives, and, among them, it affected the cultural and art market too. In every place of our planet brilliant minds are considering the proper reactions to the pandemic-crisis under every aspect of our economic…

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Does storytelling kill stories?

Just a few years ago, the word storytelling in the Italian cultural world was barely acknowledged. In recent times, however, this term knew an unquestionable success, soon becoming a “must do” for every practitioner or academic researcher in cultural related…

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Tech-derived knowledge could help our cities

Obviously, this is not a new idea. Since years, We daily hear about new technologies could help us in creating a better environment, through the analysis of data that users generate. Big data, small data, data harvesting, data mining are…

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Fragmented We Stand

Rephrasing the famous quote can sketches the picture in which Western world has found itself recently, especially Europe and the Americas. Since the end of 2016, a wave of political and social fragmentation has been sweeping at least two of…

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Culture is Complex, and we must have strategies.

There is no doubt that cultural development requires a strategic approach. Worldwide, urban areas are experiencing a process significantly different from the merely expansive path that public administration and private investors have longly prompted over the XX century. Nowadays, growth…

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The dark sides of culture

Barbara Kruger, in one of her famous artworks affirms: When I hear the word culture, I take out my checkbook. This provocation well evokes a wide range of associations related to culture: theatres, music performances, artworks, and so on. Another…

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When quality measures the distance between valorization and commodification

There is a shared vision which wants that every kind of good and service can be transformed in a product. It doesn’t matter what kind of good or service is. This perspective is not so bad as it could sound…

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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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Tourism as a driver of cultural vibrancy in lesser known destinations: a link yet to be explored?

In recent years, culture and creativity have captured the attention of city-focused policymakers, managers, and academics due to their (still much argued) capacity to contribute to local economic prosperity. “Cultural vibrancy” (or “cultural vitality”, here used as synonyms) is a…

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Is culture “the new black” or the “last ideology”?

Europe is, nowadays a little weird concept, that assumes, day after day, everchanging Non-Euclidean shapes: Brexit, NGOs, boundaries and immigration are at the top of the Agendas of a Union that would have preferred pursuing objectives such as the "smart,…

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Tafter Journal Number 100

In recent years the world has totally changed. Many are still the persons who disbelieved the power of culture as a strategic tool for the development of entire economies and territories. Many understood it. Many have made of their lives,…

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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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Does arts and culture have value? And which is it?

Should art be considered as a luxury and should artworks be considered as luxury goods? And, at the other end of the spectrum, should popular culture be understood as a scarce – and, therefore, costly – good? In general, we…

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Users or Audience?

It’s sure. No doubt about it: this is the user’s era. This is what we daily learn when we try to understand how We’re trying to build our future. This is true when we talk about soft-industries, such as software…

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Audience development or audience empowerment? Let’s be contemporary.

As the President of the European Commission, Mr. Juncker stated in his State of the Union speech of Sept. 13th, Cultural Heritage is one of the pillars on which the new European House must develop. The opening of the House…

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Changes are afoot

Changes are afoot politically: rising tides of nationalism and populism, stunning election results, and loads of analysis to decipher when and how these movements came to be. Months after the Brexit vote, Britain now considers the specific and practical realities…

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Ecclesiastical Tourism and the Paradox of Happiness

At the first glance the following two contributions look rather diverse – hardly related. Alfonso Casalini writes on the role of catholic and religious cultural heritage and the need for the implementation of modern management tools, especially in the organization…

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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…

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A call for a European Model of Culture

Recent events, such as the election of the provocateur Mr. Trump as President of United States, the increasing migrations phenomena or the rise of new forms of terrorism, ask for a concrete answer from Europe in one of most important…

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The role of Cultural Management and its social and narrative relevance

In his last book La phrase urbaine, the French philosopher and author Jean Christophe Bailly wrote that the city is like a sentence whose meaning we can understand only if we know its grammar. The city is not only a…

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Transforming Historical Cities in Smart Cities by Using Geospatial Technologies

The term geospatial in the Anglo-Saxon world – but also in the scientific and technical Italian elite – is slowly replacing the word Gis, acronym of Geographic Information System. Geospatial is interpreted as a synonym of geographical notions, in a…

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Culture is Changing…Oops: already done!

Since the 90’s, the world looks astonished at the power of culture as a strategical tool for the development of entire economies and territories. However, in last years, culture, and better said, cultural economics in Italy (but not only in…

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Arts Equity

Diversity in the arts has been a topic of much discussion for many years and the discussion continues to become more profound, more nuanced, and more important. As Nina Simone stated, “An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is…

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Culture and Citizenship

Most Italian cities, both big cities and small cities, are experiencing a sort of identity crisis, which is the result of different but convergent factors. The failure of the urbanistic vision as a virtuous urban development model. The unresolved relationship…

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Poets: Born or Made? About the utility to preserve some doubts

Does the prenatal exposure to arts generates love and attitude for the arts? Individuals, that since the very childhood are used to be in harmony with nature, are more incline to become more interested in the environment topics? People living…

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Culture and life

Is not possible to start a discussion about culture without mentioning what in these days is scaring Europe: the IS terrorist attack in the heart of Paris is nothing but a menace to all of us. But there is also…

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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…

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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…

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Dear Readers, Colleagues and Friends,

From this number, Tafter Journal will enter in a new courage dimension. Even though, for strategic reasons, Monti&Taft will no longer be at the head of the journal, I will continue with pleasure and commitment in sustaining the evaluation activities…

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Human interaction: the next digital revolution

In the digital age, why should we care about human interaction? The answer is neither simple nor obvious. The rise of new technologies has generated a flourishing debate about the pros and cons of a wide usage of the Internet,…

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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 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Hidden identities of urban space – Le identità nascoste dello spazio urbano

Urban space, understood both as a physical place and as an intangible entity, represents the contemporary background par excellence, the preferred habitat of the species homo sapiens sapiens, the reference context of numerous studies and analyses on post-modern societies. The…

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Eventful Cities: the relationship between city development and cultural events

In recent years slogans such as ‘festival city’ or ‘city of festivals’ have become common elements of the brand image of many cities. But why have events become so popular? What are the benefits of being ‘eventful’? What is the…

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Curiosity and contemplation: a geography of culture

Culture is certainly rooted in specific sites. Such a simple feature has been used, often overused or even abused in the attempt at drawing borderlines or highlighting local pride, emphasizing a sense of belonging based upon the refusal of strangers…

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Culture and development at a crossroads

The two articles featured in this issue of Tafter Journal by Mazuba Kapambwe and Johannis Tsoumas may inspire some further reflections on the difficult, ‘liquid’ relation between place, ideology and politics, which is so present in almost any debate on…

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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…

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The challenging walk to digitization

The massive use of digital tools and technological devices requests a serious reflection upon the role played by culture in our society. Obviously, the black and white scheme does not work any more in a context where the long-established opposition…

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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…

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Does Culture Need New Audiences? Absolutely Yes!

In a time of austerity, audience development represents a fundamental aspect which should be taken into account. In the traditional business sectors, the demand side has always played a key role in order to predict and satisfy a huge range…

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Future Culture: Back To Normality

Many things are occurring, quite often in the shadow, out of the places and groups where conventions are crafted and consolidated. The only possible reaction to changes and threats is action, not certainly discussion. Action requires thought and interpretation. But…

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The rise of the unconventional approaches

The complexity of the contemporary world, combined with the social needs of increasing portions of population, puts on the table new issues to address. In a context characterised by high degrees of competitiveness and few stocks of monetary and natural…

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Culture and sustainability, this is the challenge – Cultura e sostenibilità, questa è la sfida

The year 2013 is coming to an end and there are contradictory signs and a fair amount of confusion in our poor country, while elsewhere we are working on large and very demanding horizons and scenarios. The articles proposed in…

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Exploring the world between nostalgia and desire

In such a rapidly changing world certainties are strongly needed, and communities share a painful nostalgia for an idyllic past. While powerful people try to stop time a growing tribe of innovators and non-prejudicial individuals build a sort of network…

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Walter Santagata (1945 – 2013)

Walter Santagata passed away unexpectedly, leaving a deep emptiness. His cultural creatures are various, and important. Walter leaves fertile ideas upon which we need to reflect.

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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…

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Performative museums and new indexing, here you are culture 2.0, folks! – Musei performativi e nuove indicizzazioni, questa è cultura 2.0

Contemporary life is experiencing a deeper diffusion of the web and new digital technologies. These tools are gradually going to integrate and redefine a wide range of human experiences and the same cultural sector can be said to be invested…

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City and “cultural capital” – Città e “capitale culturale”

In the search for greater and better well-being for a society, an objective that economic science explicitly sets itself, while proposing recipes of varying success, an important role for culture emerges today. The idea emerges that, in the commitment to…

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Does culture deserve public funds? – La cultura merita i fondi pubblici?

The relationship between cultural activities and public funds is subject to an endless torment. As always, the hosts settle on opposite sides and to frighten the opponents adopt doomsday arguments. The most used adjective is ‘right’, which should find little…

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The dialogue that can save us – Il dialogo che ci può salvare

The involvement of citizens in the conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage and the creation and management of a tourist offer adapted to the needs of an evolved demand, and an increasingly competitive market: these are topics on which attention…

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The Cultural Dimension of Sustainability

It is time to find new ways of injecting culture into business strategy. Economic downturn is quickly spreading across the big Western democracies because of an interconnected and global production system, causing a negative impact in terms of growth, employment…

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Why should we care about the arts?

Many things are disappearing from the political agenda: the emerging economic paradigm is totally ignored, as if nothing had happened in the most recent years showing the final breath of manufacturing capitalism; the new social complexities are feared, as if…

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The reason why we want to deal with culture – Perchè vogliamo occuparci di cultura

The reason why we want to deal with culture The aim of epos is to give back to the cultural sector its ability to understand before others the changes taking place and to intercept well in advance the new trends…

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Evolution or pathology of the species? Evoluzione o patologia della specie?

Can the etymology of the word “cretin” help us to propose some reflections on what is published in this issue of the Magazine, which deals with the theme of “creative” professions in Europe and the settlement of immigrants in the…

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Diversity and critical sense – Diversità e senso critico

Diversity, including cultural diversity, is intrinsic to human beings. It’s not to be confused, however, with the need for belonging, which can become identity and which is declined in different ways - national, tribal, religious, sports, etc. -, and which,…

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Which oil for culture? – Quale olio per la cultura?

Because of the economic crisis that marks not only Italy, but also many of the European countries and not, and that has led and will lead to a drastic reduction in the resources allocated to the cultural system it’s necessary,…

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Emerging Culture: Weak Labels vs. Strong Views

For many years culture has been too slow: static, self-celebrating, devoted to a club of presumed cultivated individuals; the convention used to consider culture as the source of spiritual value, therefore objective and eternal. Slow culture cannot evolve. Recently what…

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KIZUNA, uniting people

Il Centro di ricerca Fo.Cu.S , Sapienza, Università di Roma ha organizzato il convegno “Ri-costruzioni” con l’obiettivo di evidenziare come gran parte del patrimonio storico italiano (in particolare quello dei piccoli centri storici) sia aggredito, ormai da anni, da eventi…

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The Sacred and the Vulgar

Last month Richard Florida released a new edition of his famously controversial book, "The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited”. Now that the business world is interested in creativity, the new edition could, potentially, outsell the first edition many times…

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A cultural elsewhere

Many things are occurring in the cultural system. While scholars try to understand the features of the emerging paradigm, in the real world things simply happen: maybe the problems are quite the same as before, but the needs are certainly…

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Godere e diffondere conoscenza e amore per il patrimonio culturale

Evocando un sagace slogan di qualche tempo fa del sempre benemerito FAI (Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano), che recitava più o meno così: “conservi ciò che ami, ami ciò che conosci”, si può dire che conoscenza, ri-conoscenza e affetto verso le…

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Il mondo secondo Gauss: geo-localizzazione e riferimenti del territorio

Due temi, connessi alle infrastrutture sensoriali delle città, ci riconducono alla considerazione dell’importanza dei riferimenti su cui poggiano le rappresentazioni della realtà in cui viviamo. In una smart city, entità ancora non ben definita, ma fortemente percepita, voluta, promossa e…

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Sistemi generatori e organizzatori di cultura

Quali sono i sistemi generatori e organizzatori di cultura: questa è la domanda alla base dei due contributi, l’uno di Valeria Dell’Aquila, l’altro di Fabiana Lanfranconi, che suscitano riflessioni e spunti diversi ma interessanti. Il primo dei due contributi assume…

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Non è un museo per tutti

La definizione ICOM di museo, elaborata durante l’Assemblea Generale di Seul, ormai risalente al 2004, fa emergere chiaramente le due funzioni primarie dell’istituzione: quella di conservare manufatti, oggetti, opere e quella di trasmettere cultura e diletto. Dalla definizione emerge anche…

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Orientamenti

Quando si parla di cultura si finisce per mettere a fuoco il concetto di identità. Sono proprio le cose (beni, attività, idee) senza identità o con elementi parziali e insufficienti a farci escludere che si tratti di cultura. Stiamo maneggiando…

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What’s the “city” in the design and implementation of the European Capital of Culture? An open issue

The European Capital of Culture (ECoC) is a long-standing programme that invites visibility for a cultural mega-event that aims to highlight the richness and diversity of European cultures and the features they share, and also to promote greater mutual knowledge…

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L’Italia non è solo un “disastro”…

Recentemente sono stata a Lecce, per lavoro. Non vi ero mai stata prima. Alloggiata in un albergo “fuori le mura” sono arrivata in tarda notte. La mattina dopo mi sono avviata, a piedi, in centro. Dappprima mi è parso di…

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Beyond GDP: The Role of Culture in Development | Cultura e sviluppo, provare per credere

In Italy, the coupling of culture and development has been a recurring theme, often leading to inconsistent and ineffective policies. Despite the ongoing crisis, there has been little serious discussion about the economic benefits of investing in culture. Instead, cultural…

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Le potenzialità dei nuovi pubblici e delle tecnologie in campo culturale

I più attenti osservatori del settore culturale ci invitano da tempo a non sottovalutare le tendenze della società contemporanea destinate a produrre effetti evidenti e non facilmente prevedibili sia sulla produzione che sulla fruizione culturale. Mantenendo l’attenzione focalizzata sulle dinamiche…

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New Spaces for Culture, New Cultural Actors | Nuovi spazi per la cultura, nuovi protagonisti della cultura

From distinct analytical viewpoints, Bruno Zambardino and Barbara Camocini explore the challenges and opportunities of adapting contemporary spaces to meet the evolving needs of culture. While their perspectives differ, both authors offer valuable insights into this complex issue.

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Shifting from Icons to Knowledge | Dal mondo delle icone al mondo della conoscenza

What is the value of culture in today's world? This question is more pressing than ever as we navigate our current disjointed and contradictory cultural landscape. While we've been raised to believe in culture's inherent goodness, it's clear that our…

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The end of prevention: Our greatest emergency. | La vera emergenza è la fine della cultura della prevenzione

How far have we truly come in safeguarding and making accessible Italy's cultural heritage and parks? This is the fundamental question raised by Marco Eramo and Federica Gandolfi in their contributions to this edition of Tafter Journal. A timely question…

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Introducing the new Tafter Journal | Il nuovo Tafter Journal

Tafter Journal will continue to provide monthly updates, featuring both domestic and international contributions. The journal's scope will be further broadened through the introduction of several new sections In un momento di grande difficoltà politica, il settore culturale – inteso…

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Museums as local public services: A critical analysis | I musei sono “servizi pubblici” di prossimità?

Al cittadino medio del nostro paese non è certo mancata nell’arco della propria vita la frequentazione di uffici di servizi pubblici, come quello postale o anagrafico. Fatte salve le eccezioni e le negligenze che ciascuno di noi può sempre enumerare,…

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Socially involved | Socialmente coinvolti

Social enterprises represent a recent evolution of the traditional business model. Similar to cultural enterprises, they initially appear as an oxymoron, difficult to grasp. However, recent practices have shown a unique model where social enterprises engage in entrepreneurial activities with…

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Social complexity and the dynamics of cultural pluralism | Complessità sociale e pluralismo culturale

In the pages of Tafter Journal, we have repeatedly addressed the theme of language and narrative as fundamental and inseparable elements of territorial transformations. Our task has been to confront the issues of places and their transformations as attentive observers,…

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Researching to innovate: New tools and languages for communication | Ricercare per innovare. Nuovi strumenti e linguaggi per comunicare

Innovation is the buzzword used to justify actions and interventions in the cultural sector (and beyond). Museums are often at the forefront of experimentation and the introduction of ad hoc regulations, management structures, and new practices. It is worth following…

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Reasons for preservation – Le ragioni della tutela

The defense of landscapes, historical heritage, artistic and cultural activities, urban livability standards, public spaces, and an environment threatened by quantitative development that ignores the natural limits of exhaustible resources. Defense. This is the daily bulletin of an unprecedented, epochal…

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From grand to granular: Reimagining the use value of existing heritage. – Grande e piccolo. I pilastri per riassegnare valore d’uso al patrimonio esistente

The media has extensively reported on the rapid pace of land consumption and new construction in Italy, with recent data suggesting a loss of over 3 million hectares in the past 15 years. However, against this backdrop, there is a…

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The name of the territory – Il nome del territorio

The "grain of a territory", to use Kevin Lynch's term, referring to the mix of how the various elements of a settlement - activities, people, buildings - are clustered in space, evokes a sense of place that can be associated…

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Creativity: A tool for empowerment – La capacitazione attraverso la creatività

The concept of growth, often measured by economic indicators like GDP, has been subject to increasing scrutiny. Critics argue that these indicators may not accurately reflect the well-being of citizens. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen offers an alternative perspective, emphasizing the…

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Pathways to sustainable valorization – Strade verso una valorizzazione sostenibile

Regeneration, improved accessibility, and enhanced quality of life have become central principles in urban and metropolitan interventions, aimed at facilitating tourist visits and stays. Both small and large urban centers are seeking the best ways to attract and accommodate new…

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Training the gaze on the territory – Allenare lo sguardo sul territorio

To train the gaze, to teach sensitivity towards the community and the territory, to increase the awareness of the inhabitants through the use of unusual tools and keys of interpretation: here’s what happens when you use the video footage as…

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Narrazioni interattive e ricordi di comunità – Interactive narratives and community memories

The memories reflect our vital experiences make us remember episodes, anecdotes, intersect with our actions and strengthen the image we have of ourselves as individuals, but also as belonging to a place. Just like a photo or an image, enriched…

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Pratiche di ascolto attivo

Abstract The communities, their different expressive potential, highlighted in the territorial cultures, interwoven with material and immaterial, everyday life and future expectations, draw non-linear trajectories, sometimes with critical outcomes – as regularly have reported the article of Ricci and Cabasino.…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Rich of territory: working towards to a civic consciousness | Ricchi di territorio: puntare sulla coscienza civica

By now, the territory has become a “dense” word, full of meanings, projects, expectations, not only for the town planners, which still frequent it, but also for economists and for cultural professionals. The territory is a mass of physical places,…