Browsing by Author "Romanelli, Mauro"

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Creative cities and urban regeneration : a research mapping
(IKAM, 2024) Zbuchea, Alexandra; Romanelli, Mauro; Pînzaru, Florina
Cities of tomorrow will invest knowledge sources in driving creative-led and culture-driven urban regeneration that contribute to revitalizing urban spaces and driving sustainable and inclusive urban growth, leading to community development and engagement. Urban regeneration processes enable creative cities to be socially inclusive communities that rediscover the importance of collaborative innovation as a framework that help shape wealthy urban spaces into engines of social innovation. It is relevant to map the present state of knowledge and practices to better prepare for future creative cities. The present paper investigates the relationships between creative cities and urban regeneration, as presented by the main academic outlets. The current bibliometric analysis identified five main research dimensions: macro-level phenomena, urban regeneration based on culture and communities, cultural policies, sustainability, and policies leading to the sustainable development of creative cities.
Creative urban spaces : a collaborative and organisational view
(Institute of Knowledge Asset Management (IKAM), 2025) Romanelli, Mauro; Zbuchea, Alexandra; Bîră, Monica
The urban development processes rely on cities and urban communities that make efforts to support initiatives and policies that enhance the aims and the implementation of sustainable issues within urban spaces. In particular, cities are going smart not only by investing in human and organisational energies to make technology as a driver for sustainable urban growth, but also promoting cultural, civic and creative assets and inputs that make the city a culture-led and knowledge-driven socially innovative urban community, opening to creative urban spaces. Post-industrial cities increasingly are working to make and develop creative collaborative urban spaces. Cities of tomorrow will invest knowledge sources in driving creative-led and culture-driven initiatives that contribute to making collaborative urban spaces and driving sustainable and inclusive urban growth, leading to community development and engagement. The future of urban growth relies on promoting culture as an opportunity to develop inclusive and cohesive communities that contribute to making creative urban spaces. Creative hubs develop bottom-up initiatives, by involving artists and other creatives who are able to meet the needs of an artistic community, making creative meeting places as well as urban spaces. Creative urban spaces develop creativity-led processes and rely on creative cities and hubs as socially inclusive communities that rediscover the importance of collaborative innovation as a framework that helps shape wealthy urban spaces into engines of social innovation. The study aims at investigating the relationships between creative cities and hubs that are following a collaborative view to organisational as well as urban spaces, in order to drive social innovation and achieve social sustainability within creative urban spaces.
Museums driving urban regeneration and community well-being
(IKAM, 2022) Zbuchea, Alexandra; Romanelli, Mauro; Bîră, Monica
Museums contribute to urban regeneration processes and develop communities, contributing to their wellbeing. Culture helps to support urban innovation, opening up to urban regeneration as a source of well-being for communities. Social innovation, as well as a dynamic vision for urban change management and sustainable development, might be enhancing factors. Museums contribute to urban redevelopment strategies and act as social agents of change and spaces of cultural innovation and experimentation to revitalize urban spaces, fostering solidarity, integration, and collaboration. Museums select a pathway for building community wellbeing, by social innovation, driving urban regeneration processes that benefit urban communities and environments.
Through the public’s lens: are museums active members of society? an investigation during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Springer, 2021-04-01) Zbuchea, Alexandra; Romanelli, Mauro; Bîră, Monica
Traditionally, museums have cultural and educational roles. Increasingly, however, museums are also assuming a social role in engaging with visitors and communities and strengthening social involvement coherently given the changing expectations of the public. Museums have become participatory organisations that contribute to the well-being of society. Considering the global health challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, this chapter investigates the way museums have responded to support their communities, as well as the public’s perception of museums’ civic profile. An online survey was applied in Italy, Romania, and the Republic of Moldova to identify the dimensions of the activity of museums regarding how the support offered by museums is visible and appreciated. The study shows that museums reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, developing online and digital sources to adapt and deliver their offers, to have a voice within society. Generally speaking, it seems that the public does not pay much attention to museums concerned in contemporary societal debates. Understanding the public image of museums helps museums redesign their organisation and activities to meet the expectations of contemporary audiences coherently, given the recent societal developments. This investigation is among the first to highlight the way museums have assumed an activist role, providing support to the wider public, by reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic.