Can the arts and artistic training play a role in addressing major contemporary challenges?
Can artistic training and the production system dialogue constructively? Arts are a
relational asset, a system for perceiving and reading a part of society and its behaviors. In
an era of financial restriction, society and the productive world can find in art and artistic
training an engine of sustainable development and not just a way to boost up its
communication. Italian artistic training can and must become one of the keys to the urban,
economic and social renewal of our cities. Recently the Turin Institutions of Higher
Education system have launched a pioneering project that goes to this direction with the
restauration of Cavallerizza Reale Unesco asset which will become the home of innovation
in artistic training designed to create a network among the main cultural players in the area,
from Teatro Regio to the RAI National Orchestra, from Teatro Stabile to the National
Cinema Museum: a project that could become a case study and its consolidation at the
international level could be a model for other countries.
The construction of multidisciplinary and international artistic networks and the
implementation of shared artistic productions exported abroad are the most effective tools
to be used. Central axis of the project is the starting of doctoral studies shared together with the
Polytechnic and the University of Turin, which enter as partners through two PhD programs
that merge the knowledge of all partner institutions with a sure impact on the development
of new skills. The first PhD (Polytechnic) is about Urban and Social Development through
culture, aimed to bring to the scientific community the consideration on the role of artistic
training for the creating pattern of strategic city and territory planning. This PhD, supported
also by additional research grants, accompanies a second PhD program in Cultural Heritage
and Historical-Artistic, Audiovisual and Multimedia Production (University), which
focuses on the integration of digital humanities with arts disciplines, with a research on
digital transition in the arts, on possible innovations in artistic fruition and the most
innovative performance expressions.