PROJECTS

COORDINATION OF CRICC

Activation and management of the Center:

● Coordination of the cross-disciplinary applied research group; facilitation of research processes; ● Assistance in the creation of content relating to meeting activities; ● Design of on and offline communication tools; ● Mediation activities with potential stakeholders, contacts with companies; ● Editorial and publicistic enhancement of the results of the CRICC project; ● Curating of events for the dissemination and exploitation of results and prototypes.

AUGMENTED REALITY AND ENHANCEMENT OF FASHION ARCHIVES

The project envisages, in close collaboration with companies in the Emilia-Romagna fashion sector, the development of technological solutions applied to the company heritage and aimed at facilitating the processes related to cataloging and consultation. The project aims to analyze the reference context and trace scenarios in which augmented reality can accelerate and enhance the development of archiving or image search systems, to increase the synergy between this information technology and the processes of creation, marketing, communication. and conservation of the fashion product.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN MUSICAL AND AUDIOVISUAL CCIs IN EMILIA ROMAGNA REGION

Investigation of technology and innovation in the Cultural and Creative Music Industries of Emilia Romagna through quantitative and qualitative analysis methodologies. In particular, it is examining how music and audiovisual companies exploit digital technology, what technologies they use, and how digital improves or affects their performance for the production, creation and distribution of sound/music. The situation we are experiencing due to the pandemic is having strong repercussions on the sector and on the relationship between society, digital technologies and sound. The current shock will cause realignments in the long term, both in the working phases, in the creative processes, and in the distribution.

EVOLUTION OF THE DESIGN OF HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES 

The project provides for a structured mapping activity that brings out the state of the art of evolution and expected trends in the design context of human-machine interfaces in relation to complex socio-technical systems. In collaboration with the Re_Lab company, the work is aimed at highlighting case studies relating to industrial products and design-oriented methodologies with a multidisciplinary meaning on the ergonomic, cognitive, anthropological and social aspects that characterize this rapidly changing design area. The research is aimed at highlighting the role of man and his body in contemporary design contexts, with the aim of bringing out new design practices in relation to the interaction processes related to the growing theme of the economics of transformativeness.

CULTURE AND CREATIVITY INTEGRATED TO THE WELL-BEING OF THE PERSON AND THE COMMUNITY - ECONOMY OF TRANSFORMATION

The project involves the mapping of creative formats applied in the field of neurosciences to implement enabling technologies functional to the restoration and maintenance of people's health and well-being. Deepening of mindfulness processes; design of innovative mindfulness processes based on creative formats; analysis of the dominant technologies of the nascent "sector of the economy of transformation"; production of home services and activities useful for the emotional and functional training of users in relational isolation; planning and organization of study and dissemination events on the sector; drafting of a research dossier in the regional territory of emerging professional skills.

OBSERVATORY ON THE FUTURE OF THE CITY. OPEN WORKSHOPS AND URBAN DESIGN

Documentation of transformation processes triggered by the emergency, in compliance with global and territorial challenges. In collaboration with FIU, the activities are: creation of testimonial material also in audio-visual format through the editing of Urban Data Stories and Urban Stories and through the visualization of data; service design, including prototyping of formats to support urban transition processes through the use of processes, practices and technologies related to CCIs; visualization of the meta-city, storytelling and datatelling, through the use of prototypes to support the activities of the Observatory and the Open Laboratories.

Scatti d'opera: over 70 years of history of the Theatre of Bologna - Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Over 70 years of the history of the Theater, from the fifties of the last century to 2007, told through about 10,000 photographs, mostly unpublished, of performances, performers, audience and moments of life of the Theater, will be returned to the community thanks to the project "Opera shots: the stage photos of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna", which was awarded the funding from the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MiBACT), now the Ministry of Culture (MiC), with the winning the “Photography Strategy 2020” competition. Objective of the project is the conservation and digitization of the photographic collection, which belongs to the historical archive of the lyric-symphonic foundation.

EMERGENT PROFESSIONAL PROFILES IN THE CULTURAL AND CREATIVE FIELD

Drafting of an online observatory on ICC and on the new creative professions in the Region. In synergy with the Flaminia Foundation, the project is aimed at developing an editorial prototype and broadcasting center within the Open Laboratory of Ravenna, which works to raise the level of the quality of the lessons (of all levels) and the level of the quality of creative fruition of the heritage.