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ABSTRACT
This contribution intends to overview and frame a conceptual model for Cultural and Creative Enterprises (CCEs) that we call Platform Spaces. The paper contextualizes and discusses the main issues and challenges facing the CCE sector, identifying the need for more complex concepts better able to distinguish new policies and approaches being experimented with in Italy and across Europe. As Italy is currently experiencing a particularly rich period regarding the development of cultural creative activities based largely on social innovation, both in terms of organization management and relation with territorial development, it is an ideal context in which to explore the emergence of this new model. The paper describes three diverse examples of Platform Spaces based on multi-stakeholder cooperation mechanisms, arts and culture, and the engagement of local communities to not only ensure the accessibility of their activities but also to meet territorial development goals. With this analysis, the paper discusses a new conceptual framework that can be relevant both in theory and in practice, identifying policy recommendations to address territorial development approaches for Platform Spaces.
Acknowledgments
This article is the result of a collective research activity undertaken by the three authors. The final written version can be attributed as follows: Conceptualization - LT, GD, ZMJ; Methodology - LT, GD, ZMJ; Formal Analysis - ZMJ, LT, GD; Investigation - LT, GD, ZMJ; Data Curation and Case Studies - LT, GD, ZMJ; Original Draft Preparation - ZMJ, LT, GD; Review and Editing - ZMJ, LT, GD; Visualization - GD; ZMJ, LT.
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Notes
1. Informal interviews with Project Managers have been conducted by the authors during individual research experiences.
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Notes on contributors
Luca Tricarico
Dr. Luca Tricarico is a post-doc researcher at Luiss Guido Carli University (Dept. of Business & Management). With background in Planning and Public Policy Analysis (PhD at Politecnico di Milano), his research interests include institutional, organizational and policy implications of social innovation; community-based organizations and territorial approaches to entrepreneurship; and social impact finance and proximity-based local economic development. He has published articles in national and international scientific journals in the field of planning, management and urban studies. In 2014, together with Sara Le Xuan, he published the book Imprese Comuni: Community Enterprises e Rigenerazione Urbana nel Regno Unito for Maggioli Editore. In 2018, together with Flaviano Zandonai, the book Local Italy: i domini del settore comunità in Italia was published by the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation.
Zachary Mark Jones
Zachary Mark Jones is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Politecnico di Milano, where he completed his PhD in Urban Planning, Design and Planning. His teaching and research activities span architectural and urban design, planning, built heritage, cultural mega-events and cultural policy. After studying in the U.S., he has spent a number of years expanding his research interests across Europe where, in addition to completing his PhD in Italy, he was a Fulbright Student in Croatia, a Visiting Research Fellow at Kadir Has University in Turkey and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Cultural Capital in the UK. In addition to a number of published journal articles, he is also the author of the recent book Cultural Mega-Events: Opportunities and Risks for Heritage Cities in the Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design series.
Gaia Daldanise
Gaia Daldanise has a PhD in Urban Planning and Evaluation and is a regional representative of the Italian Youth Association for UNESCO—Campania and is a member of Blam (Salerno), Friends of Molo San Vincenzo (Naples) and PLUS hub (Pisticci) associations as well as the secretariat for RETE—Association for the collaboration between ports and cities. Since 2014, she has been carrying out research activities at CNR IRISS, where she is currently working on collaborative urban planning processes for the city-port system regeneration along with co-design and co-evaluation approaches of creative cultural services for cultural heritage valorization. She has worked in international research projects including: Horizon 2020 Project “Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural Heritage adaptive re-use (CLIC)”; “BESECURE Best Practice Enhancers for Security in Urban Environment” (FP7-SECURITY – Specific Program “Cooperation”: Security); and “Estudio de la Amenaza Sismica y Vulnerabilidad Física del Gran Santo Domingo” (UNDP project). She has received, with the Blam team, an award for the “Welfare che impresa!” competition with the project “Play ReCH (Reuse Cultural Heritage).” She received a special mention (Edoardo Mollica Award 2016) for young researchers. A list of her scientific publications can be found at: https://www.iriss.cnr.it/prodotti/?fwp_prodotti_autore_cnr=2298.