Abstract
A discriminating, multi-disciplinary knowledge is a necessary expertise that all the actors who operate in the management, conservation, and communication of Cultural Heritage (CH) must have. They are, therefore, expected to be seriously prepared in many fields. However, a proper training program for them, which effectively combines humanistic studies with scientific ones, is difficult to be arranged when there is lack of comprehensive perspective in the education system. This paper introduces the experiences of the postgraduate programs that were established for many years at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. Through a calibrated mixture of theoretical background and practical applications taught by high-profile scholars, those programs proved to be effective in the preparation of figures later dealing with the CH at different levels. The clear organization of those specialized lectures, the innovation introduced with hands-on practical case studies and the adoption of state-of-the-art techniques, led to an educational paradigm that is still efficient, whose outcomes also demonstrated how it can be inspiring for future high-level learning programs, which must be oriented towards fostering an aware preparation for leading operators involved in the conservation and dissemination of CH.
Highlights
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The Italian education system in the field of Cultural Heritage (CH) knowledge, management, conservation, and communication is strongly rooted in the work of Paola Barocchi
Computing, founded in 1965; the SNS environment in which, despite some initial hesitation, the contamination of knowledge was easy due to the contiguity of ‘humanists’ and ‘scientists’ [3]. Starting from this cultural ‘milieu’, Paola Barocchi conceived various applications of IT to the study of art history, going well beyond the limits of the time, which were the lack of interaction possibilities and the small power of memorization, computation, and visualization
Summary
Normale Superiore (SNS) in Pisa, Italy (Figure 1) and in her joint experience with one of the authors of this paper beginning from the middle of the 1990s These trials suggested the didactic organization of large part of today’s curricular courses (e.g., the course in Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts at the University of Bologna (https://corsi.unibo.it/2cycle/gioca, accessed on 24 August 2021). Computing, founded in 1965; the SNS environment in which, despite some initial hesitation, the contamination of knowledge was easy due to the contiguity of ‘humanists’ and ‘scientists’ [3] Starting from this cultural ‘milieu’, Paola Barocchi conceived various applications of IT to the study of art history, going well beyond the limits of the time, which were the lack of interaction possibilities and the small power of memorization, computation, and visualization. There were no personal computers, tablets, smartphones, or even the Internet; electronic computers were very large machines, in which ‘punch cards’ were used as a recording medium
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