About us

ASK Art, Science and Knowledge has been founded in 2004 as an interdisciplinary and inter-departmental research centre of Università Bocconi, dedicated to arts and cultural practices, art markets, arts and cultural institutions, arts and cultural policies, creative industries and media.
The research activity of ASK encompasses a broad range of disciplines: humanistic studies (history, art history, philosophy, cultural studies), social sciences (management, organizational studies, marketing, economics), statistics, law (intellectual property in particular).
ASK has been practicing at national and international level a wide range of activities, including publication, seminar series, academic research, field and policy design oriented research.