ArtLab: Territories, Culture, Innovation
ArtLab is a independent platform dedicated to innovation in cultural policies, programmes and practices. A space for dialogue and critical reflection among stakeholders of the cultural and creative ecosystem and with other sectors of society, in a cross-sectoral and transnational perspective.
Born in 2006 in Turin from an intuition of Fondazione Fitzcarraldo, today it is a network of more than 40 Italian and international partners.
ArtLab Novara
For the first time – from 26 to 27 September – ArtLab arrives in Novara with a stage dedicated to a workshop for the whole city – involved in a phase of profound transformation – and cultural operators, artists and creatives, public and private policy makers, agencies for territorial development, representatives of the Third Sector and Italian and European companies.
The event will revolve around two themes dear to ArtLab: the regeneration of cultural-based assets and the digital transition, with a focus on the role of data for organisations and the relationship between digital and accessibility.
The valorisation of cultural heritage will be explored above all from the point of view of its effective contribution to processes of territorial regeneration, even in the most marginal contexts. The aim is to bring out the enabling conditions that make it concretely possible to transform public places and properties – often in a state of abandonment or underuse – into drivers of local development, tools for social cohesion and community creation, and resources for cultural entrepreneurship.
In this framework space will be given to the main forms of shared administration, such as the experiences of Special Public-Private Partnerships, which will be present in Novara for the first time together, and with the further participation of other experiences working on projects dedicated to the (re)activation of places as spaces of community and cultural production.
The digital transition represents an important test for cultural organisations, which are forced to come to terms with their increasingly central role in the management and interpretation of data. On the one hand, the digitisation of cultural heritage entails the production of data and metadata that can give rise to new digital narratives and experiences; on the other hand, the activities of organisations themselves are producing more and more data (on audiences, supply, communication, impact, etc.) which, when put together, would produce a wealth of information that would be invaluable in orienting the actions of both organisations and policy makers.
We will compare ourselves with national and international experiences that exploit data also through artificial intelligence, to open up new development potential. We will also reflect on the implications of the relationship between digital and accessibility to understand how to design accessible and inclusive experiences.