81921 - Sociology of Cultural and Creative Processes

Learning outcomes

The Course section deals with the system of cultural and creative industries that includes, in an integrated way: cultural heritage, tourism, fashion, audiovisual production, design itself as the domain of development of the cultural and creative sector. The course provides knowledge on cultural and creative processes in the fields of humanities and social sciences, management and communication. At the end of the module the student knows:  to understand the interactions between the different actors of the cultural and creative system;  identify the needs of the actors and develop measurable value in terms of cultural and territorial capital;  identify the products-services that, when properly thought out, can represent the outcome of the project.

Course contents

Consistent with the overall structure of the Program / Content Course on Design Thinking - Product-Service Design Laboratory, this course section will enable students to:

a) to elaborate an analytical approach for the exploration and investigation of the logics of social organization and the processes of institutionalization of spaces and places;
b) to experiment the learning and the exercise of project investigation (in which knowledge production and intervention in problematic contexts are in a circular relationship and feed each other) on the terrain of those processes and logics.

Readings/Bibliography

Appadurai A La ricerca come diritto umano, in Il futuro come fatto culturale, Raffaello Cortina, 2014

Appadurai A., La vita sociale del design, in Il futuro come fatto culturale, Raffaello Cortina, 2014

Bagnasco A., voce Spazio, Enciclopedia Treccani delle Scienze Sociali, 2001

Berger P. L., Luckmann Th., La realtà come costruzione sociale, Il Mulino, 1974

Bifulco L, Vitale T., Da strutture a processi: servizi, spazi e territori del welfare locale, in Bifulco, L. (a cura di), Il genius loci del welfare. Strutture e processi della qualità sociale, Officina 2003.

de Leonardis O., Le istituzioni, Carocci, 2011

de Leonardis O., Mauri D., Rotelli F., L’impresa sociale, Anabasi, 1994.

Delitz H., Architectural modes of collective existence: architectural sociology as a comparative social theory, Cultural sociology, 12/1, 2018, pp. 37-57.

Kornberger M., Stewart R. Clegg Bringing Space Back In: Organizing the Generative Building, Organization Studies, 2004, 25, pp. 1095-1114

Lanzara G.F., Il carattere generativo dell’agire, in Capacità negativa: competenza progettuale e modelli di intervento nelle organizzazioni Il Mulino, 1993

Lanzara G.F., L’attività progettuale come indagine pratica, in Capacità negativa: competenza progettuale e modelli di intervento nelle organizzazioni Il Mulino, 1993

Löw M. The Sociology of Space. Materiality, Social Structures, and Action, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Plummer H., L’esperienza dell'architettura, Einaudi, 2016.

Rosenhan D.L., Essere sani in posti insani, in P. Watzlawick (a cura di), La realtà inventata. Contributi al costruttivismo, Feltrinelli, 1989

Salin O., Pesso K., Open Minds, Open Spaces: Mind-Set Changes During Urban Walking, Space and Culture, 20 (4): pp. 385-98.

Sclavi M. Arte di ascoltare e mondi possibili : come si esce dalle cornici di cui siamo parte, Bruno Mondadori, 2003.

Semi G., L'osservazione partecipante, Il Mulino, 2010.

Sennett R., The fight for the city, 2019, https://www.eurozine.com/the-fight-for-the-city/#

Teaching methods

see the contents of the Course Design Thinking - Module of Product-Service Design Laboratory 

Assessment methods

see the contents of the Course Design Thinking - Module of Product-Service Design Laboratory

Teaching tools

see the contents of the Course Design Thinking - Module of Product-Service Design Laboratory

Office hours

See the website of Vando Borghi

See the website of Simona Beolchi