cultural projects – Tafter Journal

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

The discovery of arts and culture as global communication media. High-visibility experiences in the Italian and international scenario

If the powerful symbolic language related to artistic heritage can be considered the most brilliant intuition by first patrons and sponsors, during the last years the Italian scenario shows a real rush toward high-visibility cultural projects by global corporations, associating…

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…

Creating Culture

Creative Chaos: How To Feed Ideas

I am always inspired by the ‘art’ of facilitation, a combination of methodologies useful for leading and orientating a complex group in job meetings or workshops, generally used in the learning organization and educational field. So, what if culture makes…

Managing Culture for creating impacts

Development As A Network: A New Perspective To Evaluate Cultural Projects

The paper aims to show how and why network analysis turns to be a precious and complementary tool to evaluate cultural projects for local development. After reviewing the traditional project evaluation techniques, we first discuss how network analysis is able…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

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…