Research projects
INDICE - Digital innovations for cultural and creative firms
The mono-network project Digital Innovations for Cultural and Creative Firms, acronym: INDICE, aims to respond to the growing need for Research & Development (R&D) and to make ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) innovations accessible and centralized in the field of culture and creativity in the Veneto Region. The INDICE project represents an important step forward in the integration of digital technologies in the different cultural and creative sectors of the Veneto Region.
Scientific coordinator: Francesco Casarin
Other maclab members who joined the project: Massimiliano Nuccio
Funding programme: PR FESR 2021-2027 Regione del Veneto
Duration of the project: from february 2025 to february 2027
Culture 2.0
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
Hi-TEACH: a new trainer teaching framework in the post-covid era
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
Mapping the complexity of cultural & creative ecosystems as knowledge pools: a mixed-methods exploration
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
The new craft sector: Creative clusters and the evolution of knowledge and skills
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