Abstract
The project has two aims. On one side, it intends to enrich the debate around the relationship between art and wellbeing, focusing on the recent idea of cultural welfare. In particular, it aims to go beyond the prevailing focus on health and on individuals, reframing it from the perspective of cultural welfare ecosystems capable of virtuously impacting the forms of life, living, producing, consuming and organizing. On the other side, the project is dedicated to improving the knowledge and awareness of the potentialities and challenges of cultural welfare practices through collecting data and promoting an active and participatory knowledge production process at the local level in different Italian territories. It is argued that the combination of these two main research tracks can pursue the elaboration of place-based and integrated policies oriented toward promoting inclusive growth of territories. The project assumes three main analytical perspectives. The first one concerns cultural participation, linked to the development of cultural capabilities, which are affected by inequalities in terms of material, cognitive and social resources. The second relates to social innovation to answer societal needs by improving social relations and empowerment. Key aspects of social innovation are the role played by the territory as a place where new social practices can emerge, participation as a process of knowledge production, and the combinations of actors based on collaboration and partnerships. A third dimension concerns the paradigm of cultural value and its relation to non-economic categories and to "Institutional Value," which refers to how the organizations behave when interacting with citizens and the territory and to the generation of growth and resilience of the local community. The project is articulated in four phases. The first one is dedicated to a background research aiming at enriching the understanding of cultural welfare through a review of the academic literature and identifying the social semantics at the EU level by analyzing policy documents and reports on the link between art/culture and wellbeing. The second one is dedicated to mapping cultural welfare projects in Italy in terms of attributes and challenges with the aim of achieving a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the Italian context. The third one is dedicated to the promotion of a “place-based” knowledge about how local cultural welfare ecosystems can work in 6 territories (three in the city of Bologna and three in the Marche region) through an action-research aiming at setting up contexts for co-learnings and sharing knowledge on how to develop cultural welfare ecosystems and on inclusive monitoring tools. The fourth phase, developed along the project, is dedicated to the dissemination at the national and international level of the Italian debate on cultural welfare pursued by the project.
Dettagli del progetto
Responsabile scientifico: Roberta Paltrinieri
Strutture Unibo coinvolte:
Dipartimento delle Arti
Coordinatore:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna(Italy)
Contributo totale di progetto: Euro (EUR) 262.283,00
Contributo totale Unibo: Euro (EUR) 139.934,00
Durata del progetto in mesi: 24
Data di inizio
30/11/2023
Data di fine:
28/02/2026
