85130 - Networks and Systems of Cultural Heritage

Learning outcomes

The course offers the tools to analyze networks and cultural systems (between institutions, museums, archives, libraries, communities). The student will be able to study and develop integrated cultural strategies, proposing general solutions about mission, technical administration, management, organization, business plan.

Course contents

Course’s aim is the analysis of a contemporary phenomenon: building museum’s networks and systems to manage an increasing supply of cultural goods in spite of the weak economical sustainability of the cultural heritage institutions. Main actors of building networks are public powers and, in general, local or regional (in Italy and in other European countries); but State engagement in this field is not negligible, direct or indirect. Discovering the economical and political rhetoric concerning “networks” and “systems”, the student will be able to analyze the actual situation in Italy and in other European countries and to search a practical application in the cultural, economical, institutional field.

Readings/Bibliography

S. Bagdadli, Le reti di musei. L'organizzazione a rete per i beni culturali in Italia e all'estero, Milano, CRORA - EGEA, 2001;

F. Donato, La crisi sprecata. Per una riforma dei modelli di governance e di management del patrimonio culturale italiano, Roma, Aracne, 2013;

W. Santagata, Il governo della cultura, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014;

Concetti Chiave di Museologia, ed. by F. Desvallées e F. Mairesse, ICOM, 2016 [free on web]

Regioni e musei: politiche per i sistemi museali dagli anni Settanta ad oggi, Atti del Convegno, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 4 dic. 2007, a cura di D. La Monica ed E. Pellegrini, Pisa, LARTTE, 2009;

I sistemi museali in Italia, IULM per Aspen Insitute (sett. 2013) [free on web];

L. Moro, Quale governance per il Catalogo nazionale dei beni culturali, in “Aedon”, 1/2017 [free on web];

C. Tubertini, L'assetto delle funzioni locali in materia di beni ed attività culturali dopo la legge 56/2014, in “Aedon”, 1/2016 [free on web];

N. Vettori, Il piano paesaggistico alla prova. I modelli della Toscana e della Puglia, in “Aedon”, 1/2017 [free on web]

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Office hours

See the website of Roberto Balzani