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The competitive advantage of the global city
Over the last two decades there has been a transformation of the systemic components that make up urban infrastructure. We cannot understand this upheaval, and the great problems and challenges it raises, if we do not analyze the main variables of this epochal change that lead us to add the term "new" to the more general concept of urban infrastructure.#In the context of globalization, we are witnessing ...
Creative Cities Towards the Evolution of the Species
In recent years in Europe, at least 190 cities have focused on culture as an element of socio-economic development and territorial differentiation. The Covid-19 pandemic has shed light not only on the socio-economic value of culture, but also on those aspects that require new policies: from the precarious and fragile condition in which most workers find themselves, to the need to rethink urban tourism ...
The Social and Cultural Role of Libraries
Public libraries, at least on paper, represent perfect coworking spaces and fundamental locations to support female work. Given the recent extension of smartworking, even private companies should be interested in supporting them in order to offer their employees valid alternatives to working at home. Moreover, to limit the educational inequalities present in our country – currently accentuated by ...
The Value of Culture in the 15-Minute City
After the approval in 2015 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, many cities drew up their "Local Agendas for Sustainable Development." Recently, these Agendas have incorporated the model of the "15-Minute City," a prototype of the polycentric city based on proximity. In the "15-minute city," culture becomes a factor to stimulate participation, feeding planning, a sense of belonging, ...
Innovation Strategies for Museum Collections
Despite significant growth of the online presence of all Italian museums, these institutions are still oriented towards a use of the technology linked to the web 1.0 in which the services offered and their use are rather passive and not oriented towards engagement of the public. The risk is to not fully exploit the potential of digital to enhance their collections, to propose a differentiation between ...
Strength and Fragility of Reading
In the last months of 2021, the positive sales results for the book publishing industry were accompanied by a growing polarization of certain social dynamics linked to reading: the distribution of libraries, schools, and bookstores and the variety of cultural offerings are more fragile in the South than in the North. It is increasingly necessary to reflect on the ways of stimulating reading, starting ...
Cultural Welfare Beyond Experimentation
Research on the effects of art and cultural heritage on people’s health and well-being intensified at the start of the new millennium involving a growing number of countries. This was accompanied by a multiplication of practical experiences that emerged, both in the classic locations for culture, such as libraries, museums, theaters, and other entertainment spaces, and in the places traditionally ...
The Values of Culture
The articles in this issue offer an ample and detailed view of the meaning and contemporary value attributed to cultural organizations of very different kinds. Through an analysis of the transformation of ancient institutions, such as libraries and museums, new forms of exchange of original works, such as NFTs, and the changes underway in the relationships between operators that exist in different ...
Multiculturalism, Diversity, and Inclusion Strategies
Contemporary society forces artistic and cultural institutions to consider the multiplicity of the cultural groups that characterize it. The need for policies to support inclusion, in order to guarantee the right to free participation in a community's cultural life, is a commitment which every organization must face, defining the management and organizational aspects to hybridize that are indispensable ...
The Impact of NFTs on the Art World
The phenomenon of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) exploded in 2021 following the sale by Christie’s of "Everydays: The First 5000 Days," a digital work registered on a blockchain and purchased for over 69 million dollars. More than representing an artistic innovation, NFTs appear to be a market segment and possible form of digital trading of works, a phenomenon that could potentially trigger new forms ...