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Lo studio per la distrettualizzazione culturale della Regione Sardegna
No full textMentre in ambito internazionale la cultura assume un ruolo centrale nei processi di sviluppo delle economie, in Italia si continua a fare soprattutto riferimento al tempo libero, al turismo culturale e al suo indotto. Se si guarda alla relazione tra economia, società e territorio quale sistema complesso in grado di generare crescita e sviluppo, diventa invece evidente come, nelle società post-industriali, la competizione avvenga sempre più tra sistemi territoriali in grado di promuovere lo sviluppo organico di cultura immateriale e di cultura materiale. Il libro propone un modello innovativo nel quale la cultura produce sviluppo agendo sui comportamenti dei residenti del sistema locale, stimolandone l'apertura mentale, le capacità di apprendimento e quindi la propensione a produrre e recepire l'innovazione
What kind of ‘world order’? An artificial neural networks approach to intensive data mining
No full textIn this paper, we present an innovative data processing architecture, the Activation & Competition System (ACS), and show how this methodology allows us to reconstruct in detail some aspects of the fine grained structure of global relationships in the world order perspective, on the basis of a minimal dataset only consisting of the values of five publicly available indicators for 2007 for the 118 countries for which they are jointly available. ACS seems in particular to qualify as a valuable tool for the analysis of inter-country patterns of conflict and alliances, which may prove of special interest in the current situation of global strategic uncertainty in international relations
Multidimensional Similarities at a Global Scale: An Approach to Mapping Open Society Orientations
No full textThis paper analyzes the global geography of open society orientations in the sense of Karl Popper’s notion of open society, by means of a database consisting of five common, public and widely used indicators such as UNDP’s Human Development Index, the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, the Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom Index, Reporters Sans Frontières’ Press Freedom Index, and Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. We carry out a cluster analysis based on the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) technique, and find that the geography of open society orientation organizes globally into four main clusters with distinctive socio-economic characteristics. We discuss the implications of the clusterization and find that it provides interesting insight also as to the post-2008 response of countries to the global financial crisis
Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Destination Development: The Role of Collaborative Strategies
No full textIs AI really better than conventional methods to identify the key drivers of firms’ performance? An exploratory study in the hospitality industry
No full textANNs are a key theme in tourism and hospitality. However, they haven't been widely employed to identify internal and external determinants of firms' performance. Based on a dataset of daily hotels' reservations, we demonstrate the capability of a specific unsupervised ANN (Auto Contractive Map - CM) to outperform other methods in assessing the hidden connections among variables and providing guidelines for hotel managers to improve competitive performance. Since AutoCM results are static, they could be enriched by dynamic simulation tools to measure the impact of the variation of key determinants of company's performance on the entire data ecosystem
Gentrification as space domestication. The High Line Art case
No full textIn this paper, we critically examine the role of artistic locational choices and practices in the context of gentrification processes in urban renewal contexts. We characterize gentrification as a form of domestication of space, and explore the extent to which artistic choices and practices relate to such process with reference to the deontological dilemma of legitimization within the art system vs. responsible empowerment of vulnerable local constituencies. We illustrate our argument with an analysis of the High Line Art project, and show how this can be considered as a textbook example of art-driven space domestication leading to brutal forms of gentrification. We comment on the threat that this provides to the social credibility of artistic practices as an agency of responsible social change
Analyzing the Semantics of Point Spaces through the Topological Weighted Centroid and Other Mathematical Quantities: The Hidden Geometry of the Global Economic Order
No full textFor many spatial processes, there is a natural need to find out the point of origin on the basis of the available scatter of observations; think, for instance, of finding out the home base of a criminal given the actual distribution of crime scenes, or the outbreak source of an epidemics. In this article, we build on the topological weighted centroid (TWC) methodology that has been applied in previous research to the reconstruction of space syntax problems, for example, of problems where all relevant entities are of spatial nature so that the relationships between them are inherently spatial and need to be properly reconstructed. In this article, we take this methodology to a new standard by tackling the new and challenging task of analyzing space semantics problems, where entities are characterized by properties of a nonspatial nature and must therefore be properly spatialized. We apply the space semantics version of the TWC methodology to a particularly hard problem: the reconstruction of global political and economic relationships on the basis of a small-dimensional qualitative dataset. The combination of a small set of spatial and nonspatial sources of information allows us to elucidate some intriguing and counterintuitive properties of the inherent global economic order and, in particular, to highlight its long-term structural features, which interestingly point toward the idea of longue durée developed by the distinguished French historian Fernand Braudel
Museum environments, visitors’ behaviour, and well-being: beyond the conventional wisdom
No full textWe introduce a taxonomy of museum environments, based upon three dimensions: the auratic/non-auratic character of the environment, visitors’ cultural attendance, and level of cultural attendance of the social context. We consider a case study of a museum environment characterized by the least favourable socio-cognitive conditions, and conduct a study on 102 museum visitors about their cognitive performance in terms of attention and recall, cultural habits, evaluation of museum services, and psychological well-being. In spite of a fair cognitive performance in terms of attention and recall and a general satisfaction with the museum environment features, a weak relationship between performance and cultural habits, and between cultural habits and psychological well-being, is found. We conclude that museum policies for low-attendance museum environments should be carefully reconsidered in order to stimulate visitors to develop more culturally oriented habits, with possible positive impacts also in terms of well-being
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