This paper explores the development and implementation of a digital knowledge-action platform designed to embed and translate the SoPHIA (Social Platform for Holistic Impact Assessment) method—a multidimensional framework for evaluating cultural heritage initiatives—into an accessible and participatory digital environment. Building on the Horizon 2020-funded SoPHIA project, the SoPHIA for CHANGES initiative, led by Roma Tre […]
Within the Extended Partnership “CHANGES”, a project funded by the NextGeneration EU initiative, the University of Roma Tre and Coopculture collaborate to develop an innovative framework for the management and governance of cultural assets. This research endeavor aims to establish a methodological approach that leverages scientific data on cultural heritage to facilitate knowledge acquisition, cultural […]
Digital technologies provide an excellent leverage of innovation in the cultural sector, as they can provide unprecedented opportunities for audience development and engagement. The Covid-19 pandemic emergency has exacerbated these opportunities, as digital tools allowed to break down physical, cognitive and economic access barriers, reaching out to isolated communities, and to provide a tailor-made cultural […]
In this paper a new approach has been proposed by a recent H2020 European project, called SoPHIA (2021), which aimed to draft a Holistic Impact Assessment model to evaluate investments on cultural heritage (CH) and that, we believe, could also provide effective insights for cultural organisations in the process of drawing their Sustainability Reporting. Building […]
As citizen participation and participatory governance have become central concepts in the cultural policies at EU level, we are interested in understanding what this entails in practice. While, generally speaking, participation has been deeply scrutinized in political science and public administration literature, how citizens become participants in a process of co-creation of culture, who benefits […]
This paper investigates Participatory Cultural Initiatves (PCIs) and patterns of learning and knowledge sharing among participating actors. We highlight Participatory Cultural Initiatives (PCIs) and their impact on communities, cities, and regions. PCIs create material and immaterial outcomes through the presence of cultural artefacts and the exchange of ideas, thoughts and feelings among participants. In particular, […]
The purpose of the paper is to scrutinise citizen participation in co-creating a culture initiative. The active involvement of citizens in the co-creation of public initiatives has been embraced by the European Commission as a relevant topic on its reform agenda. In this line, citizen engagement has become one of the criterion to select the […]
The aim of this paper is to investigate participatory cultural initiatives (PCI) and their impact on communities, cities, and regions. The notion of impact exceeds the notion of outcome insofar, as it includes subjective feelings and joint intuitions. PCIs create material and immaterial outcomes through two crucial inputs: human creativity and human intellectual activity. In […]