"Assessing Commons' Value of Multi-actors' Partnerships for Cultural Heritage"
Il 29/05/2026 ore 11.30 - 18.00
Cnr-Iriss, Naples
Via Cardinale Guglielmo Sanfelice, 6th floor
How can cultural heritage be governed as a common good? Which forms of collaboration are capable of generating public value, social impact and sustainable development? And how can these processes be assessed through innovative and participatory methodologies?
These are some of the key questions at the centre of the seminar “Assessing Commons’ Value of Multi-actors’ Partnerships for Cultural Heritage”, which will take place on 29 May 2026 at the headquarters of Cnr-Iriss in Naples, within the seminar cycle “Common Goods / Common Values”.
The initiative aims to contribute to current international debates on cultural commons, participatory governance and the evaluation of the social and public value generated through collaborative heritage practices. Moving beyond traditional approaches centred exclusively on conservation, the seminar will explore cultural heritage as a dynamic space of co-production, civic participation and shared responsibility among institutions, communities, researchers, cultural operators and creative enterprises.
Particular attention will be devoted to the mechanisms through which multi-stakeholder partnerships generate value for cultural heritage, with a focus on methods and indicators for assessing social, cultural and territorial impact. The discussion will also address the role of art and creativity in shaping more inclusive and participatory governance models, capable of supporting sustainable heritage development.
The seminar is curated by Gaia Daldanise, independent researcher, and forms part of the broader reflection promoted by Cnr-Iriss on common goods as spaces for the co-production of policies, self-government practices and active citizenship.
The programme will feature contributions from scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of cultural policy, governance, economics and evaluation. The event will open with institutional remarks by Paolo Landri, Sociologist of Education and Director of Cnr-Iriss, and Valentina Rossi, Senior Researcher in International Law and coordinator of the Cnr-Iriss seminar series. Among the invited speakers are Sotiria Grek, Professor of Science, Knowledge and Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, who will present the ERC-funded project “POLART – Art and Policy in the Global Contemporary: Examining the Role of the Arts in the Production of Public Policy”, and Enrico Eraldo Bertacchini, Professor of Economics and Statistics at the University of Turin, whose intervention will focus on the theoretical and methodological challenges related to the assessment of cultural commons’ value.
The seminar will also present international experiences and applied research projects, including the A.R.S. progetti study “Measuring the Value of Multi Stakeholder Partnerships in the UK’s UNESCO Sites”, promoted by the UK National Commission for UNESCO and Creative PEC. The project methodology and the first results will be presented by Roberto Formato (Project Team Leader) and Silvia Coraiola (PM and Research Assistant).
The morning and afternoon sessions will be chaired respectively by Paolo Landri and Gaia Daldanise. Bringing together researchers, cultural institutions, third-sector organisations, creative enterprises and practitioners, the event seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on new frameworks for evaluating and governing cultural heritage as a shared and collective resource.
The initiative falls within the Cnr-Iriss seminar series “Common Goods / Common Values”, an interdisciplinary programme exploring the governance of commons and the transformations currently reshaping collective resources, public value and forms of participation. Inspired by Elinor Ostrom’s foundational reflections on the governance of common-pool resources, the series promotes dialogue between theoretical approaches, applied research and practices emerging in real-world contexts, fostering critical reflection on cultural, environmental, urban and digital commons as living, situated and collaborative practices.
Organizzato da:
CNR-Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo
Referente organizzativo:
Paolo Landri
CNR - Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo
paolo.landri@cnr.it
Modalità di accesso: ingresso libero
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