In the Veneto region there has been an increasing trend to increase professional and training needs in the cultural and creative industries and in particular in the entertainment sector. The Dedalus project has been developed precisely to provide technical and professional skills functional for inclusion in the regional production system or for the refinement of knowledge and skills specific to professional figures already active.
The ‘Digital Artistic Communities’ project developed from the experiences gained within the performing arts network activated by the Opera Estate Festival (OEF), identifying as recipients some of the realities that have marked innovation in the field of the performing arts in the Veneto in recent decades. These are dance and theatre companies and professionals united by the spirit of innovation but in search of a constant balance between experimentation (including technological experimentation) and the rootedness of artistic work in local communities.
Within the framework of the Interreg Central Europe InduCCi project, aiku produced a reporting document to reconstruct the historical framework of the cultural policies implemented over the years by the Veneto Region, acknowledging the subjects who have participated in the definition of the territory’s cultural policy, both through institutional instruments and through multi-stakeholder button-up participatory processes.
The Approdi project identified as the main beneficiaries of the interventions the Veneto theatre production realities that have developed and consolidated professionally in search of a balance between the quality of the cultural proposal and the differentiation of services and activities, also with a view to economic sustainability.
Corporate theatre is an instrument that is attracting interest in Italy and in the Veneto region in particular. This should come as no surprise. In our economic and social reality, in fact, the gap between the (much) value it produces and the (little) recognition it gets has long been noted.
Commissioned by Confindustria Veneto Est, the research carried out by the aiku centre has mapped more than 500 realities between ‘corporate cultural heritage’ and ‘traditional cultural heritage’ for a culture-driven development process. The research, part of the Capital of Enterprise Culture 2022 project, highlights the cultural role of enterprises in the territories of Venice, Padua, Rovigo and Treviso.
The research project was developed by Andrea Santini, Postdoc Research Fellow at the Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
The report offers methodological recommendations and also describes the creation of an interactive platform allowing the consultation of regional data on performing arts, collected during the project. It aims to establish the basis for the creation of a regional performing arts observatory in Veneto.