The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the visual arts represents a significant shift in contemporary creative practices, prompting urgent questions about the nature of art, the role of the artist, and the boundaries of human-machine collaboration (Cetinic & She, 2023; Rooij, 2024). This paper investigates how generative AI technologies are reshaping the visual arts, […]
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 […]
This paper explores the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), focusing on Mission 4 (“Education and Research”) and the role of universities in fostering a cultural ecosystem. The study aims to understand how concepts of cultural ecosystems and university involvement apply to NextGenEU-funded projects, specifically through the case study of the extended partnership called […]
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 […]
Recent years have seen a rise in popularity of the vegan or plant-based consumption/production, which is deemed to reduce the environmental burden (Fresán & Sabaté, 2019) since the impacts of animal products can markedly exceed those of vegetable substitutes (Poore & Nemecek, 2018). Our research focuses on sustainable business models applied to vegan production with […]
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 […]
This paper addresses the topic of the regeneration of historic villages and small towns. It is part of an ongoing research project questioning if and how cultural heritage can be a trigger for civic wealth creation. Building on the previous literature on urban regeneration, we deem that in such contexts the mobilisation of cultural resources […]
This paper aims to understand factors and processes that leverage from tangible and intangible cultural heritage (i.e., local know-how, tacit and codified knowledge linked to arts masterpieces and cultural heritage assets but also to local crafts and tradition) to sustain citizens’ social, cultural and economic wealth. So far not enough attention has been paid about […]
This paper investigates how board members perceive the reliability of Big Data (BD) as a new source of information for their decision making. To understand the dilemma “real time and effective vs reliable and compliant information”, we analyse a real case, addressing this problem to reflect on the decision making of a board of directors. […]