The scope of the project Cultural Heritage 2.0 is to understand whether and how changes occurring in digital habits and media can support the recovery of the cultural sector. This is particularly relevant in a post-pandemic context. The project intends to promote collaborations between universities and cultural institutions to develop the cultural sector further. The strategies to achieve such objectives are reorganizing business models, creating new approaches and synergies, transferring knowledge, and developing innovative digital resources and skills. This project is in partnership with four different European countries: the Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, and Denmark, with which we are collaborating to determine how to support local and international cultural institutions best.
Scientific coordinator: Monica Calcagno
Other MACLAB members who joined the project: Maria Lusiani, Stefania Funari, Michele Tamma, Fabrizio Panozzo
Funding programme: EramusPlus Project
Duration of the project: from february 2022 to December 2023
The pandemic forced universities worldwide to host their online teaching activities, giving birth to the most significant digital experimentation ever made. Nevertheless, such a challenge will profoundly shape the future academic world, making e-learning a permanent element of university education. To address this issue, the project, by creating a strategic partnership between HEIs and training centers for methodological innovation, relies on the digital and methodological skills of a pool of professors from 5 different EU countries and 10 HIS. By doing so, the project supports their journey to high teaching and employment of inclusive web-based teaching methods, which trespass into audiovisual and gaming media to introduce new features, namely, flexibility, accessibility, simplicity, interactivity, and customization. All these aspects represent key indicators in the context of open learning.
Scientific coordinator: Fabrizio Panozzo
Funding programme: EramusPlus Project
Duration of the project: from June 2021 to May 2023
The literature and policy activities concerning the creative economy often recognise the need for culture to be understood as an ecosystem. However, in practice, both the research and policy areas adopt substantial distinctions and separations: on one side publically funded culture, on the other industries that connect with them. On one side self-employed and freelancers trying to make a living from arts and cultural activities, on the other a range of not for profit organisations also trying to safeguard traditions and local cultures. All of the agents are profoundly interconnected but hardly talking to each other. They are funded in different ways, they are regulated in different ways and recognised in unequal ways. The proposed project aims to provide an in-depth investigation on the knowledge network existing across the different components of the creative ecosystem, collecting and visualizing data on its components but also on the networks of exchanges and collaborations.
Scientific coordinator: Maria Lusiani
Other MACLAB members who joined the project: Fabrizio Panozzo, Michele Tamma
Funding programme: Department of Management (funding received by the Ministry of University and Research for the Departments of Excellence programme)
Duration of the project: from June 2021 to May 2023
This project addresses the uses of local industrial knowledge in contemporary creative production, with a focus on craft clusters. It aims at exploring the ways through which a craft cluster’s industrial past relates to its contemporary post-industrial creative productions, and asks: How do craft-based firms balance tradition and innovation, and past and future oriented temporal pressures? Empirically, it focuses on textile crafts, with a comparative research design between Dundee, Scotland and Veneto, Italy.
Scientific coordinator: Maria Lusiani
Other MACLAB members who joined the project: Fabrizio Panozzo
Funding programme: CRUI Go for IT
Duration of the project: from April 2021 to March 2022
EBS Best Paper Award (year 2022) on Innovation, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Transformation (2nd prize). Awarded to Giulia Cancellieri for the paper: Cancellieri, G., Cattani, G., & Ferriani, S. (2022). Tradition as a resource: Robust and radical interpretations of operatic tradition in the Italian opera industry, 1989–2011. Strategic Management Journal, 43(13), 2703–2741
Department of Management 2020 Research award, awarded to Maria Lusiani for the paper: Pareschi L.; Lusiani M. (2020) What editors talk about when they talk about editors? A public discourse analysis of market and aesthetic logics in POETICS, vol. 81, pp. 101444 (ISSN 0304-422X)
AIMAC Best Conference Paper Award (AIMAC 2019 Mention in Marketing) awarded to Giulia Cancellieri for the paper: Cancellieri, G.2019. “Blending tradition and modernity to legitimize novelty in Italian opera”. 15th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management. 23 June - 26 June, 2019, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
AIMAC Best Conference Paper Award (AIMAC Conference, Beijing June 2017) to the paper: F. Zanibellato, U. Rosin, F. Casarin, “How the attributes of a museum experience influence electronic Word-Of-Mouth valence: an analysis of online museum reviews”, International Journal of Arts Management, Fall 2018.
