ArtLab’s past editions
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ArtLab 18
At the thirteenth edition, ArtLab 2018 proposed two main events and five satellites events on a route throughout Italy and beyond the Alps at the Frankfurter Buchmesse.
Milano, 24th - 25th may 2018
Bari - Matera, 24th - 27th october 2018
Palermo, 23rd march 2018
Genova, 22th - 23rd june 2018
Treia, 5th july 2018
Mantua, 28th september 2018
Frankfurt, 10th - 14th october 2018 ArtLab 17
Territories, Culture, Innovation.
The edition of 2017 had the goal to strengthen the role of ArtLab as a permanent National laboratory for innovation. With a total of 67 sessions, over 1400 people participated, adding up to a total of 1609 attendances to the 4 events, mainly coming from the direct and neighbouring surroundings of the cities hosting ArtLab. 2017 concluded with the participation of a large delegation of ArtLab to The Arts+ in Frankfurt, a festival dedicated to the creative industries.
The four main events:Milan, June 22-23, 2017
Taranto and Matera, May 3-5, 2017ArtLab 16. Territories, Culture, Innovation.
Milano, Macerata, Mantova, Lecce
In 2016, ArtLab displayed four events throughout Italy, dedicated to innovating practices and policies in and through arts and culture.
The four events:
Milano, 19 - 20 May 2016
Macerata, 5 July 2016
Mantova, 28 September - 1 October 2016
Lecce, 28-29 October 2016ArtLab 15. Territories, Culture, Innovation.
Lecce 23-26 September 2014
An edition devoted to the enhancement of the public heritage. Representatives from more than 40 public and private organisations, foundations, banks and cultural organisations convened to address the themes on the agenda, and from the discussion emerged a breakthrough idea: what determines the actual value of the public heritage is its usage value – not its financial value – that is to say, its potential to serve as a growth opportunity for the territory and the community.
Download the programArtLab 14. Territories, Culture, Innovation.
Lecce 24-27 September 2014
Four busy days of discussions, in-depth analyses and networking. New ideas and proposals to see cultural design in a new light, as an activity to be carried out in parallel with the development of a territory, and to attract a larger audience.
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Lecce 24-28 September 2013
Culture is an innovation factor for a territory and it is in itself a “territory” that needs to innovate to establish new ties with the local communities. ArtLab 13 developed along three lines: innovation and sustainability, smart cities and social innovation.
Download the programArtLab 12. Dialogues about cultural management.
Lecce 22-29 September 2012
ArtLab’s second edition in Lecce focused on the analysis of strategies and nodes towards a sustainable, social, civil growth of the territories.
A challenge in which art and culture can, actually should, have a role.
Download the Conference ReaderArtLab 11. Dialogues about cultural management.
Lecce 22-24 September 2011
In Lecce, ArtLab 11 experienced for the first time the transition from a conference type event to a rendezvous open to the world of enterprises, social actors, citizens. The aim: provide answers to the many questions about culture and territorial development.
Download the Conference ReaderArtLab 10. Dialogues about cultural management.
Torino 1-2 October 2010
The conference focused on the ever greater role taken on at national level by the regions in the field of the performing arts. Attention was devoted to accessibility, social enterprises between cultural production and welfare, the landscape as a resource for territorial development.
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Consult the complete archive of ArtLab 10ArtLab 09. Dialogues about cultural management.
Torino 18-19 September 2009
At ArtLab 09, Alessandro Baricco, other artists and cultural operators engaged in a debate with representatives from the political and financial spheres, private entrepreneurship and the third sector. The topic: the renewal of politics from the perspective of a relaunch of cultural entrepreneurship.
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Discover the multimedia galleryArtLab 08. Dialogues about cultural management.
Torino 26-27 September 2008
In 2008, the keyword was “innovation”. The themes addressed: net worth and recognition of the juridical personality… of whom?, access to credit for the cultural organisations, supply and demand for art and culture in small and medium-sized towns, artistic creation and cultural work to build up identity and citizenship.
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Discover the multimedia galleryArtLab 07. Dialogues about cultural management.
Torino 21-22 September 2007
The main theme addressed at ArtLab 07 was the legitimisation of arts and culture in society. The discussion centred around leadership in cultural organisations, stakeholder management, fundraising, networking, relationship between territorial marketing and culture, generational turnover in Italy’s cultural institutions.
Download the Conference ReaderArtLab 06. Dialogues about cultural management.
Torino 22-23 September 2006
The first edition of ArtLab revolved around the relationship between cultural management and educational opportunities. The most critical aspects of this relationship were identified through an analysis of educational needs in different spheres: culture and local development, contemporary art, museums, entertainment and the performing arts, festivals, cultural centres, artistic projects and the territory, cultural industries, the public administration.
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