Nuove mappe per nuovi territori. Festival per la cultura, la cittadinanza, lo sviluppo

Events and festivals are hubs of people and networks, are territorial competitive goods for the development and common community goods; they are infrastructures of citizenship and relationship, they foster a transversal innovation. Thanks to their cognitive, relational and organisational content, they are geo-localised products/processes, which are nonetheless able to go beyond their territory to talk to the entire world, through the construction of functional and meaningful processes between individualism, good citizenship, multiculturalism, reputation and competition within a region and among different regions. They are formats with their own business models, forms of symbolic aggregation, that have a logics, as well as operational strategies and visions. They are territorial drivers than confront themselves with the rules of production of goods and services, but at the same time they have a specificity that makes them unique, that is, their public mission, even when they represent completely private experiences. They are processes that entail a fine conceptualisation, they are able to update the dialogue with the vocational community, to keep their identity during their change, to manage the space between fidelity and hybridization. They are dynamic containers that keep together all the components of a communitarian life: search for identity and citizenship, search for knowledge, search for leisure/pleasure. They are textual hypertexts, a matrix of matrixes that goes with the replacement of landscapes and territories in the contemporary imaginary. They are magnets, attractors of economies, viruses that modify and reshape access, life and consumption style.

Cristiana Colli, Nuove mappe per nuovi territori. Festival per la cultura, la cittadinanza, lo sviluppo in "PRISMA Economia - Società - Lavoro" 1/2012, pp 56-69, DOI: 10.3280/PRI2012-001007