Artistic and cultural heritage management in Italy

Client: Intesa Sanpaolo
ASK Center: Stefano Baia Curioni, Paola Dubini (scientific supervisors), Laura Forti
Intesa Sanpaolo: Laura Campanini, Fabrizio Guelpa (Study and Research Service); Demetrio Cofone (Domestic and International Institutional Relations Office)

The dictate of Article 9 of the Constitution has inspired in our country the implementation of a major cultural and institutional project oriented toward the protection of the artistic and cultural landscape heritage.
Given the nature the richness and distribution of the cultural heritage this protection project has been transformed over time into a cultural policy that has acted with widespread effectiveness in the processes of identity and citizenship construction.
The organizational response, to such a crucial institutional objective, has been an extremely articulated structure that would guarantee at the same time unity of direction, presidium of an enormous variety of highly specialized skills, and capillary presence throughout the national territory that has in the Superintendence system its central element. The objective of the research is threefold:

1. to quantify the presence and activity of the state in terms of the type of assets managed, the garrisoning of territories, heritage protection and the relationship between protection and enhancement activities;

2. contribute to the reflection on the sustainability of protection and its integration with instances of valorization and territorial development;

3. organize some evidences on possible ways of combining, in new ways, protection and valorization through the experience of Special Superintendencies of some regions and some international institutions.