Ph.D. Program in Management and Development of Cultural Heritage / MDCH

Abstract

The program aims at formalizing, in a consistent multidisciplinary course, specific know-hows needed by researchers and professionals operating at the highest levels of management of culture and cultural heritage. The PhD program rests on three main educational pillars: historical/humanistic, economical/managerial, juridical, which are cut across by a technological area that focuses on IT applcations commonly used for the valorization and fruition of cultural heritage. The PhD program integrates the theoretical approach with the technical and practical ones, in order to educate both highly qualified professionals operating in the concrete field of cultural policy and researchers who will be active in the field of cultural heritage.

Research areas

The program welcomes research projects in the following areas: Management of Cultural Heritage; Management of Cultural Programs and Events; History of the protection and valorization of cultural heritage and landscape; Sociology of culture; History of the economical, social and political impacts of cultural heritage, of its management and its fruition; History of Urban cultures, of landscape and territory as cultural heritage; Museology; Art History; History of Architecture; History of Ancient Art; Aesthetics; Art and Perception.

The topics examined by the single courses are discussed in advance so that they will result in interdisciplinary openings towards multidisciplinar research topics.

The theoretical approach, both in teaching and research, is coupled with practical experience carried out on concrete projects and contacts with exemplary case studies exposed by professionals chosen internationally (Museum Directors, Soprintendenti, Urban Planners, Architects, Professionals in the field of tourism and territorial development, Politicians responsible for the policies of culture in different countries, Heads of Auction Houses, Heads of Banks’ Investments in Art, etc.)

Placement opportunities

The program will enable professionals to work at the highest levels in the following tipology of institutions:

1. Research Institutions involved in the filed of Cultural Heritage; History and modes of fruition of immaterial goods; Art History; History of Architecture and Urbanism; History of the production, use and effect of images.
2. Public and private Institutions dealing with the concrete management of Cultural Heritage; Promotion of Culture and Tourism; Organization of cultural events; Diffusion and teaching of culture.