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  • Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023 (2021 - ongoing)

    Client: Comitato Bergamo Brescia 2023
    Research team: Stefano Baia Curioni (Scientific supervisor), Sara De Giorgi, Laura Forti, Guido Guerzoni, Ilaria Morganti, Giovanna Prennushi, Micaela Rossi, Federica Rubino

     

  • mapMI (Ongoing)

    Client: ASK Research Centre

    mapMi is an ongoing research project, promoted and coordinated by the ASK Research Center, to describe and measure cultural vitality and sustainability in the metropolitan city of Milan. At the basis of mapMi is a crowdsourced database, built by collecting, classifying and updating statistics from multiple sources (ISTAT, MIBAC, City of Milan and many others), with the help of networks of cultural organizations and about 300 students. To date, the database collects nearly 13,000 "cultural places" in the metropolitan city of Milan: businesses, nonprofits, public entities and religious places. 

    Each place is geolocated and described in terms of its institutional nature, activity, membership in formal networks, mix of activities that characterize it, and participation in widespread temporary city events. Places that host recurring temporary events (e.g., during Week and City formats) were also mapped, a useful survey to understand under what conditions these become part of the cultural infrastructure. The dataset has enormous potential for studying and understanding the territory, individual neighborhoods, and the networks of relationships present among the various nodes of the creative supply chains, making it possible to assess, over time, Milan's ability to characterize itself from a creative point of view and to attract professionalism and talent. With the mapMI project, which can be activated with ad hoc research projects, ASK participates in the collective reflection on the present and future of Milan as a city of cultures, offering a dynamic snapshot of its cultural offerings and policies.

     

  • Fondazione Fiera Milano (2022)

    Client: Fondazione Fiera Milano
    Scientific supervisor: Guido Guerzoni

    Analysis for strategic development in culture and education sectors. Fondazione Fiera Milano is considering whether it should expand and strengthen its role as an entity that produces culture training and innovation not only on a national level. 
    A strategic analysis structured in two phases has been hypothesized:

    • First phase (November 2021 - January 2022): 1. Analysis of the As Is situation 2. Benchmark analysis 3. Definition of mission vision and possible new strategic positioning 4. First estimation of economics
    • Second phase (February - April 2022): 5. Analysis of the potential market 6. Economic and financial sustainability

 

  • The cultural needs of Milan (2022)

    Client: Milan Municipality
    Research team: Paola Dubini (Scientific supervisor), Laura Forti (Coordinator), Sara De Giorgi

    The project promoted by the Milan Culture Department has as one of its prerequisites the analysis of the city's cultural needs. The analysis will be carried out by considering data from various sources. Objectives of the task are: 

    • to propose as reliable an analysis as possible of the city's cultural needs, which are more difficult to frame than the needs of other services that contribute to the well-being and growth of the city's communities, with the ultimate goal of directing the use of resources; 
    • to give as articulated a structuring of the offer of cultural services as possible in relation to the "needs" emerging from the city community on the basis of a strategic planning that does not have as its only guiding principle the conjugation between the private interests of the operators and the willingness of the administration to accept the proposals made. 

 

  • A Ritmo De Inclusiòn (2020-2023)

    Client: EuropeAid Cuba
    Research team: Paola Dubini, Aura Bertoni

    Culture is essential to achieve sustainable and inclusive development as it represents a framework for social cohesion that multiplies the opportunities for individuals and societies to broaden their horizions. Young people are an important asset to face the challenges that social transformations imply. This project promotes transformation by contributing to the creation among young people of values ​​of active citizenship as an enabling environment for the existence of an autonomous civil society. ASK's role is to provide support in terms of the qualitative indicators to measure young people's inclusion in the cultural life and to undertake research on the uses and management of hybrid cultural spaces.

 

  • ITSSOIN (2017)

    Client: European Commission
    Scientific supervisor: Alex Turrini

    Impact of the Third Sector as Social Innovation in Europe.

 

  • 130 years of Edison (2014)

    Client: Edison SpA 
    Scientific supervisor: Stefano Baia Curioni
    Research team: Laura Savoia, Dario Manuli, Andrea Quartarone, Andrea Rurale

    A project for cultural repositioning. In occasion of the 130th anniversary of its foundation, Edison has decided to reinforce its image as a strategic enterprise in Italy, by investing on three aspects: innovation, competitiveness and sustainable development.Nine project groups, coordinated by a project unit, will involve the Edison staff and other eventual groups to be activated on specific tasks; the proposals will be evaluated by scientific committees.
    Given the cultural nature of the projects, the objective of the contribution of the ASK Centre is, on the one hand, to support the groups to manage processes and projects; on the other, to support  the central coordination activities in order to prepare the proposals to be evaluated.

 

  • Fondazione Pisa (2014)

    Client: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa
    Research team: Stefano Baia Curioni, Cristina Mottironi

    Tourism and its dynamics of development and optimization. The general objective of the research project is:

    • to analyze the scenario of tourism in Pisa and the cultural offer of the city
    • to find an ideal repositioning in the medium term and a methodology of interventionto find the project priorities for the achievement of the objective, defining for each one an estimation of maximum of time and costs
    • to design a model of representation of a possible “Industrial operative planning of tourism in Pisa”, with the scope of identifying, following a sustainable realization, the tourism sectors that are more competitive on the territory and the strategies to exploit their potentials

 

  • Fondazione Feltrinelli (2013)

    Client: Fondazione Giangiacomo Felitrinelli
    Research team: Paola Dubini, Luca Sassi

    The value created by cultural institutions. The research objectives are:
    • to follow the Fondazione Feltrinelli in the effort of consensus building in respect to the Feltrinelli Group, with the purpose of finding possible synergies and collaborating spaces;
    • to follow the elaboration of the business plan of the Fondazione and of its governance system;
    • to build the positioning of the Fondazione in the construction of an editorial identity around the issues of value creation of cultural institutions

 

  • Sviluppo Basilicata (2013)

    Client: Sviluppo Basilicata S.p.A.
    Research team: Stefano Baia Curioni, Cecilia Conti

    Regional strategies for the development of innovative and international entrepreneurship. upport in the study and the development of methodological tools to support the innovative and internationalized entrepreneurship, and to select a group of local small and medium enterprises operating in the cultural and creativity sector, with the objective of offering them specialized information regarding themes such as innovation and internationalization. In particular in pursuing the following:
    • analysis and development of a methodology for the planning and implementation of regional strategies for the development of innovative and internationalized entrepreneurship at regional level to be realized in both Italian and English language;
    • selection of 15 local PMI operating in the sector of cultural industries and creative industries, on the basis of the quality/creativity/management of the project that they are bringing forward and of the specialization of the competencies of complementarities in respect to the objectives of improvement of the local economy; 
    • following the selected 15 PMI for the elaboration of a plan of activities to favor the sustainable development and their capacity of participating to the local socio-economical environment.

 

  • Ponte Parodi (2012)

    Client: Altaponteparodi s.p.a.
    Scientific supervisor: Stefano Baia Curioni
    Research team: Beatrice Manzoni, Marta Inversini

    The ASK Centre, in collaboration with Altaponteparodi (the society in charge of the realization and management of a multi-purpose centre in the Ponte Parodi area, within the Old Port of Genoa), implements a study for the use of the cultural space envisaged by the project. The research has different steps:

    • analysis of the Old Port functioning, outlining the possible relationship of the cultural space with the port and appraising the potential visitors flows;
    • analysis of the cultural system of Genoa, with particular attention to its cultural policies;
    • selection of relevant national or international case studies in relation to the use of art spaces in port areas;
    • identification of different scenarios for the Ponte Parodi cultural space and definition, for each of them, of possible organizational models, of the related economic-financial-management implications, of the guidelines for the dimensioning and the characteristics of the cultural space.

 

  • Ente Valtellina e Valchiavenna (2012)

    Client: Società Economica Valtellinese
    Scientific supervisor: Paola Dubini
    Research team: Ilaria Morganti (group leader), Jacopo Fiorancio, Anna Redaelli

    Development of a new cultural operator for the performing arts. The research aims to study the management model of “Ente Valtellina e Valchiavenna per lo Spettacolo dal vivo” (a new cultural operator dedicated to the development of performing arts at a local level). Starting from an exhaustive desk analysis of the local system, the study focuses on:

    • a benchmark analysis to collect data on the organizational structure, the offer, the costs and results of similar initiatives in comparable territories;
    • the development of a business model;
    • the definition of the organizational structure and the elaboration of a business plan.
    • The study has been centered on two aspects: the territory (enhancement of already existing resources to offer to the local community a wide-ranging and qualitatively significant cultural program) and the tourism (the cultural aspects could become one of the assets to connote the area and foster tourism and congress tourism).

 

  • Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (2012)

    Client: Fondazione Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
    Research team: Alex Turrini, Stefano Baia Curioni, Giulia Cancellieri, Costanza Ceda, Ilaria Morganti, Marco Morelli, Giovanni Tomasi

    Strategic and organisational development. The main objective of this research is to support the Foundation Maggio Fiorentino in the process of rethinking its role within the city of Florence and in the redefinition of its development strategies.
    In particular, the activities developed for the project will aim at supporting the reorganization of the opera house and at defining the identity and role of the new Teatro dell'Opera di Firenze.

     

  • Artistic and cultural heritage management in Italy (2011)

    Client: Intesa Sanpaolo
    ASK Center: Stefano Baia Curioni, Paola Dubini (scientific supervisors), Laura Forti
    Intesa Sanpaolo: Laura Campanini, Fabrizio Guelpa (Study and Research Service); Demetrio Cofone (Domestic and International Institutional Relations Office)

    The relationship between protection and enhancement. The dictate of Article 9 of the Constitution has inspired in our country the implementation of a major cultural and institutional project oriented toward the protection of the artistic and cultural landscape heritage.
    Given the nature the richness and distribution of the cultural heritage this protection project has been transformed over time into a cultural policy that has acted with widespread effectiveness in the processes of identity and citizenship construction.
    The organizational response, to such a crucial institutional objective, has been an extremely articulated structure that would guarantee at the same time unity of direction, presidium of an enormous variety of highly specialized skills, and capillary presence throughout the national territory that has in the Superintendence system its central element. The objective of the research is threefold:

    • to quantify the presence and activity of the state in terms of the type of assets managed, the garrisoning of territories, heritage protection and the relationship between protection and enhancement activities;
    • contribute to the reflection on the sustainability of protection and its integration with instances of valorization and territorial development;

    • organize some evidences on possible ways of combining, in new ways, protection and valorization through the experience of Special Superintendencies of some regions and some international institutions.
       

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  • Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (2011)

    Client: Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
    Research team: Armando Cirrincione, Paola Dubini, Piervittorio Mannucci, Gledis Cinque

    Study for employment development in the province of Arezzo. The Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (a local bank) is currently considering what actions could be implemented in the province of Arezzo (Tuscany) to promote employment in this area, complex in terms of density, characteristics of personal and professional profiles and employment opportunities. A series of experiences successfully carried out in past years, the institution's vocation, the positive relationships with the institutional actors of the territory and the geographical position of the province between cultural poles of strategic importance to the region and the country (Perugia, Florence, Siena) suggest to explore the opportunities for professional development and widespread entrepreneurship in the cultural and heritage fields. To this end, the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze has identified a variety of institutions (Province of Arezzo, Centre of Business Statistics, UNESCO Chair at the University of Florence) to collaborate on the development of a research on the territory of Arezzo and the subsequent elaboration of a plan of action.
    The research objectives are to:
    • Define a plan for professional growth and employment sustainability around the cultural assets present in the Province of Arezzo;
    • Identify different types of measures to sustain employment and develop at the economic level; such measures could include an educational program in 2012, defining borders, contents, expected results and tools to evaluate efficiency;
    • Build a model of analysis and interpretation of data at the territorial level that can be shared with the actors operating in the area and subsequently transferred to other territories in order to elaborate a common set of data with similar and contiguous territories.

 

  • Fondazione Feltrinelli (2011)

    Client: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
    Research team: Paola Dubini, Francesco Saviozzi, Alix Doran, Camilla Pietrabissa, Gaia Passi

    The positioning choices of the institutions dealing with documents preservation. The European cultural scene appears to be characterized by the presence of a variety of public and private institutions involved in the conservation and enhancement of the value of the documents which constitute the cultural heritage, gathered at the initiative of individuals or as part of the management of public entities and firms. Such institutions are characterized by the presence of public utility purposes, by the ownership or availability of collections of documents, at times unique, by the fact that they are open to the public and by the support systems which enable the assistance of both public and private entities.
    The aim of this research is to evaluate the positioning and the conditions for sustainability of the main European private cultural institutions that deal with the preservation of documents.
 

  • The cultural district of Lomellina (2010)

    Client: Associazione Irrigazione Est Sesia
    Gruppo di ricerca: Stefano Baia Curioni (Scientific supervisor), Massimiliano Nuccio (Coordinator), Giorgia Casalone, Sonia Fanoni, Beatrice Manzoni

    Feasibility study. In the last forty years, the territory of Lomellina (an area in the south-western part of Lombardy) has been characterized by remarkably different models of development: on the one hand, a countryside devoted to rice-growing; on the other, little towns with manufacturing industrial districts. This divergence in economic, social and cultural trajectories has leaded to a political polarization of the projects for the future of the territory.
    In this context, the Associazione Irrigazione Est Sesia and the Vigevano Municipality have signed an agreement that commit them to present a feasibility study to Fondazione Cariplo, in collaboration with ASK Research Centre and Arcus S.p.a.
    The study is primarily aimed at verifying the possibility to combine the different perspectives, individuating the synergies and creating a sufficient critical mass of interventions. The logistic integration between the two models, the development of the surrounding urban area, the repositioning of the neighbouring areas and productions, the presence of other initiatives competing with Lomellina require a unitary and systematic project.

 

  • Italian Ministry for Culture (2010)

    Client: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
    Research team: Stefano Baia Curioni, Paola Dubini (Scientific supervisors), Laura Forti, Francesco di Trani, Camilla Querin, Giulia Rosso

    The evaluation system of MiBAC performance. The study aims at representing the array of structures and activities of MiBAC, identifying and calculating relevant indicators for the evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of the peripheral structures responsible for the management of the state assets spread over the territory. The objective is to offer a contribution for the performance evaluation of the Ministry in accordance with the directionsof the Commissione CiVIT (d.l. 27/10/2009 and subsequent resolution 89/2010 "On parameters and reference models of the measurement system andand performance appraisal").

 

  • Villa Bertarelli (2008)

    Client: Comune di Galbiate e Provincia di Lecco
    Research team: Stefano Baia Curioni (Scientific supervisor), Ilaria Morganti, Massimiliano Nuccio

    Feasibility study for the requalification of a historical residence in Galbiate (LC)

 

  • The Royal Villa of Monza (2008)

    Client: Infrastrutture Lombarde S.p.A.
    Coordinator: Paola Dubini

    Feasibility study for the renovation of Villa Reale in Monza
 
  • Museum in Valchiavenna (2007)
    Client: Edipower
    Research team: Stefano Baia Curioni (Scientific supervisor), Beatrice Manzoni (Coordinator / researcher)  
    Architectural consulting: Studiometrico (Lorenzo Bini, Francesca Murialdo, Marco Lampugnani)
    Feasibility study for a museum in a former power station
 
  • Tourism plan for the Turin district (2007)
    Scientific supervisor: Cinzia Parolini
    Destination management analysis for the touristic resorts connected to the winter Olympics.
 
  • "Terra amata" (2007)
    Client: ARCUS spa
    Scientific supervisor: Guido Guerzoni
    Cultural policy in the Lomellina cultural district.
 
  • Supply and fruition of culture in Lombardy (2007)
    Client: IReR, Istituto Regionale di Ricerca della Lombardia
    Research team: Alessandra Casarico (Scientific supervisor), Francesca Battasoglio, Francesco D'Amuri, Fabrizio Fracchia, Luigi Gigli, Luca Micheletto, Marina Nicoli, Massimo Occhiena, Giuseppe Surdi, Roberto Artoni, Stefano Baia Curioni, Severino Salvemini

    Strategic leverages and development factors. The research investigates the cultural industries sector operating in the region in order to:

    • Deepen the level of knowledge of the cultural industries sector in terms of its production structure, financing methods, regulatory and legislative framework, and the needs of the sector's operators;
    • Identify the potential objectives of regional policy for the development and promotion of cultural industries, to foster production, employment development of the sector and enhance territorial vocations in a sustainable development perspective;
    • Develop application proposals and modes of action that can be used by DG Culture in formulating policy lines.

    Methodologically, the survey was structured according to three different types of analysis: economic, legal and qualitative.
    More specifically, the economic analysis offers a quantitative analysis of the demand and supply of the cultural industry in Lombardy and its evolution over the past decade and an analysis of the modes of public and private funding to support cultural industries.
    Through the legal analysis, it was first possible to delimit the concept of cultural activity from a legislative standpoint, in order to identify the more specific thematic scope of "cultural industry." The EU, national and regional regulations for the promotion and financing of cultural industries were then explored in depth.
    The qualitative analysis was in the form of a qualitative and descriptive survey, through conducting a number of interviews with leading practitioners, in order to understand the critical junctures for the development of the cultural industries sector.

 
  • Rione Terra, Pozzuoli (2006)
    Client: Arcus SpA
    Research team: Roberto Artoni,  Stefano Baia Curioni, Carla Maurano, Ilaria Morganti, Ludovico Solima
    Research into the impacts of cultural heritage investments and socio-economic development in low-income urban areas
 

  • Museo Italia (2006)

    Research team: Silvia Bagdadli, Beatrice Manzoni, Giuseppe Soda
    External contributors: Anna Coliva, Alberico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Monica Bolledi

    Feasibility study for a "depot museum" in a disused thermoelectric power station. This business plan derives from the convergence of three opportunities: first the idea of an original and innovative cultural concept for a museum dedicated to the Italian Art history; secondly the client's Corporate Social Responsibility plan oriented to the promotion of cultural initiatives and finally the opportunity to reuse a power station as a museum.
    The study is divided in different parts: definition of the museum concept, analysis of the strategic and urban marketing plans, urban and architectonical project, offer plan, governance and organisational asset, economic and financial budget
 
  • The Royal Palace of Turin museum system (2006)
    Client: Direzione Regionale per i beni culturali e artistici del Piemonte
    Scientific supervisor: Guido Guerzoni
    Pre-feasibility study for the valorization and exploitation of the Royal Palace complex in Turin
 
  • Il Parco delle Meraviglie (2006)

    Client: Istituzione Parco Mediceo di Pratolino
    Scientific supervisor: Cinzia Parolini

    Strategic assessment and feasibility plan for the valorization of Villa Demidoff in Pratolino (Florence). The Medici Park of Pratolino is located a short distance from Florence at an altitude that allows the eye to sweep beyond the city and the Florentine plain to the surrounding hills. The park was commissioned by Francesco I de Medici for his wife (and controversial former lover) Bianca Cappello and was built between 1568 and 1598. In Francesco I's time, the park was called "the garden of wonders" because of the extraordinary system of caves, water features and automata that the prince wanted to create there. The project was drawn up after conducting numerous documentary and field verifications: interviews; collection and study of historical contributions related to the formation and life of the park;analysis of the tourist offer of the Florentine province; evaluation of the structural characteristics of the park and the properties; and national and international benchmark analysis. Three principles guided the analytical work:

    • the revitalization project should have respected the "vocations" that emerge from the park's history and intrinsic characteristics, in a modern key attentive to the needs of modern-day users.
    • the project should have maximized the complementarity between Pratolino and the current system of tourism offerings in the Province of Florence, avoiding duplication and seeking to identify the circuits in which Pratolino's new offerings could fit;
    • the project was to enhance local expertise and resources.

    The Business Plan starts with a resource analysis, reconstructing the history of the park and illustrating its natural vocations, which are fundamental to the very understanding of the project's potential. It then briefly analyzes the current situation of the park and the context in which it is located, to introduce the detailed exposition of the "Park of Wonders" concept. It then concludes with a series of chapters devoted to various management aspects: pricing choices, communication policies, governance choices, and summary of economic and financial implications.

 

  • The Galileian citadel of Pisa (2006)

    Client: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa
    Research team: Stefano Baia Curioni (Scientific supervisor), Massimiliano Nuccio (Coordinator), Lorenzo Mizzau, Barbara Slavich
    Advice: LAND srl

    Pre-feasibility study for the creation of a Science Centre in the Old Slaughterhouse area in Pisa.

 

  • The merchandising market for the Italian cultural heritage (2005)

    Client: PriceWaterHouseCoopers
    Research team: Stefano Baia Curioni (Coordinator), Guido Guerzoni, Chiara Mauri, Luca Martinazzoli

    Development prospects.

 

  • Florence destination management (2005)

    Client: Camera di Commercio industria Artigianato di Firenze
    Coordinator: Cinzia Parolini

    Strategic "control panel" and best practices

 

  • The Eco-Museum of the Mountains and Lakes of Brianza (2005)

    Client: Provincia di Lecco
    Research team: Stefano Baia Curioni (Scientific supervisor), Massimiliano Nuccio (Coordinator), Michela Addis, Ilaria Morganti

    Strategic assessment for the development policies of an eco-museum in the Lecco district

 

  • Museum of the Roman Ships (2005)

    Client: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa
    Scientific supervisors: Paola Dubini (ASK Bocconi), Maria Cecilia Parra (Università di Pisa)
    Research team: Alessandro Corretti (Scuola Normale Superiore), Michela Gargini (Scuola Normale Superiore), Luca Martinazzoli (ASK Bocconi), Francesco Saviozzi (ASK Bocconi), Anna Maria Visser (Università di Ferrara)

    Feasibility study for a museum after the retrival of 20 Roman ships nearby Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa | Progetto di musealizzazione delle navi romane rinvenute negli scavi di San Rossore a Pisa

 

  • The Cultural Card (2005)

    Client: IReR - Istituto Regionale di Ricerca della Lombardia
    Research team: Silvia Bagdadli, Beatrice Manzoni

    Implementation of a regional card of the cultural services. This feasibility study is a part of a more complex project aiming at linking the Lombardy Services Regional Card (CRS) to cultural consumption.
    The specific purpose of this report is to analyse the possibility to use the CRS as a tool to promote and support the consumption of cultural goods.
    The study is articulated in four steps: first of all we analyse Italian and international experiences of fidelity and convenience cards, similar to the CRS Cultural Card; then we study the characteristics of those cultural industries which might be involved in the project.
    Thirdly we suggest how to implement the offer, considering actors involved, deadlines and ways of doing the project. Finally we reflect on opportunities, threats and further steps of the initiative.

 

  • Dellepiane Theatre (2004)

    Client: Comune di Tortona
    Research team: Anna Merlo, Claudia Tacchino, Marina Nicoli

    Feasibility study for the requalification of the old Dellepiane cotton mill in Tortona. The research set out to undertake a feasibility study for the reuse of the area of the former Dellepiane Cotton Mill in Tortona, an industrial complex built at the beginning of the 20th century and abandoned in the 1980s, following the bankruptcy of the Company that headed the industry.
    The study starts from an analysis conducted at the social, demographic and economic level of the province of Alessandria and in particular of the Tortona area (economic and social framework, demographic evolution, tourist and hotel receptivity, heritage and cultural activities in the area) and the state of the art on the projects planned for the reuse of the former cotton mill. This first analytical phase was completed by the identification of a number of national cases of recovery and reutilization of former industrial areas, with which it was possible to carry out a benchmarking analysis, useful for identifying realities that could serve as "models" in terms of the organizational aspect of the portfolio of activities or in terms of managerial and economic-financial characteristics.
    The feasibility study concluded with the development of some hypotheses for the reuse of the former Cotton Mill. In particular, two approaches were identified, namely a short-to-medium-term objective, which involved the definition of a portfolio of activities for the Dellepiane Theater, and a long-term objective, consisting of the formulation of hypotheses regarding a broader urban redevelopment project. With reference to the short-term hypothesis, three redevelopment scenarios were subsequently developed, accompanied by a comparative assessment and the definition of guidelines for the realization of the scenario chosen by the City Administration according to its strategies and priorities.

 

  • Arg-e-Bam (2004)

    Client: World Bank
    Scientific supervisor: Stefano Baia Curioni

    Restoration of the historical citadel of Bam, in Iran, almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 2003. At 5.26 a.m. local time, on Friday 26 December 2003 a MW 6.5 earthquake devastated the area of Bam. The city was demolished according to a near fault motion. Almost all the homes were destroyed or heavily damaged. About 40.000 people died in between the first earthquake and the following five days. The old part of the city, including the Arg e Bam citadel, encountered the higher devastation level with housing destruction from 80 to 100%.
    The survey had to evaluate the social and economic value of restoring, rehabilitating or reconstructing Arg e Bam for the resident population and tourists. Different reconstruction option had to be identified with the help of the experts participating to the ICHO workshop in Bam and the population preferences had to be tested. The research group had to define and organize the collection of the required data and provide advice for their processing and their interpretation for the purpose of measuring the benefits of the investment options.

 

  • AESS (2003)

    Client: Regione Lombardia
    Research team: Stefano Baia Curioni (Scientific supervisor), Annalisa Sacco
    Legal: Silvia Stabile, Gilberto Cavagna di Gualdana, Lovells Studio Legale

    Valorization of the Ethnographic and Social History Archive of Regione Lombardia (AESS). Report on the legal aspects of the protection of the original works and the protection of folklore and immaterial cultural heritage.