C.R.I.C.C.
The University of Bologna’s Research Centre for Interaction with Cultural and Creative Industries aims to strengthen the regional production system and the economic development of the ICC sector by integrating research, digital and enabling technologies, creativity and culture.
C.R.I.C.C. – Research Center for Interaction with the Creative and Cultural Industries of the University of Bologna aims to strengthen the regional production system and the economic development of the CCI sector by integrating research, digital and enabling technologies, creativity and culture.
A series of cross-disciplinary pilot projects will aim to develop new technological solutions to support the innovation of cultural and creative industries, with particular reference to the field of audiovisual activities (from music, to the performing and screen arts) and digital applications to culture; to explore transdisciplinary creative practices and associated creative and experimental methods, capable of generating new knowledge, new innovative production opportunities and business ideas to provide a multidisciplinary approach to the complex CCI sector.
The Research Center is in the process of finalizing agreements with the main Open Laboratories of the Emilia-Romagna region – spaces for creative collaboration between citizens, associations, businesses, research centers, institutions – in order to activate a system of initiatives and events to be replicated in each Open Laboratory to experiment and validate practices based on co-design activities.
Objective of the first 12 months of the C.R.I.C.C.’s project has been the creation of a of industrial research laboratory to be integrated into the regional High Technology network.