The art market, heritage and sustainable local development

The Rimini Campus of the University of Bologna will host the international workshop “The art market, heritage and sustainable local development” on 1-2 July 2025, the tenth in the international workshops series of Researching Art Markets past & present: Tools for the future (RAM-T).
RAM-T is the international interdisciplinary initiative and community which was jointly founded by Elisabetta Lazzaro (University for the Creative Arts, UK), Nathalie Moureau (University of Montpellier Paul Valéry), and Adriana Turpin (IESA Art & Culture, Paris and the Society for the History of Collecting, London) in 2017.  

The Rimini workshop will explore how the art market can contribute to an inclusive and sustainable valorisation of cultural heritage for local development, minimising the associated socio-economic costs, as well as other drawbacks. It will address questions of how the art market can enhance local cultural heritage to favour a model of sustainable local development, the revitalisation of more remote areas, or the establishment of alternative hubs. It will also consider intangible and more sophisticated mechanisms through which cultural heritage can be enhanced, to favour a sustainable local socio-economic development. These are mainly related to territorial context conditions and up to now have been almost neglected within the existing studies.  

• Free participation while places last
• The workshop will be held in English

PROGRAMME  

TUESDAY, JULY 1

•  9.30 Welcome 
  Francesco Angelini, University of Bologna, Italy 
  Silvia Emili, University of Bologna, Italy
  Adriana Turpin, IESA Arts&Culture, Paris, France  

• 10.00-11.00 Keynote: Charlotte Gould (Université Paris Nanterre, Paris) 
  Pop-up art marketing and the battle for Glaswegian local heritage, a case study 
  Chair: Adriana Turpin, IESA Arts&Culture, Paris, France  

• 11.00-12.30 Panel 1: The art market and local policies for tourism and socioeconomic development 
  Chair: Massimiliano Castellani, University of Bologna, Italy 
  Elisa Francesconi (University of Catania), The art market and cultural heritage: from the Gallery, to the Archive and Auction House. 
  Sara Bonini Baraldi, Francesco Grasso, and Simone Napolitano (Polytechnic of Turin), From company town to contemporary art capital? Assessing urban policies for tourism development through contemporary art in Turin 
  Nathalie Moureau (University of Montpellier Paul Valery), Do the purchases made by the Regional Funds of Contemporary Art (FRACs) in France help to maintain a diversified and sustainable network of art galleries? 

• 12.30-13.30 Lunch   

• 13.30-15.00 Panel 2: The art market and urban development
  Chair: Silvia Cerisola, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy 
  Eda A. Robert (Independent Researcher), Creative intervention in urban peripheries: Assessing cultural hubs as catalysts for sustainable ecosystems
  Danielle Shang (Art Foundation, AAPI Arts Network), Artist villages in Beijing’s informal settlements - art market, studio economy and urban planning in Beijing and China at large
  Lorenzo Zirulia (University of Milan), The location choice of street artists: An economic model of urban art distribution  

• 15.00-15.30 Break   

• 15.30-16.30 Panel 3: Alternative art markets and global dynamics
  Chair: Nathalie Moureau, RiRRa21, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France 
  Rémy Jarry, The intricacies of K-pop in the art market 
  Nataliia Oboznenko, Exploring the heritage of art crafts in the Ukrainian Carpathians: A case study of Kosiv 

• 16.30-18.00 Panel 4: Art markets and local development
  Chair: Elisabetta Lazzaro, Business School for the Creative Industries, University for the Creative Arts, UK
  Thierry Chemalle and Alexandre Spinola (FGVinvest, Brazil), The Art market as a catalyst for sustainable local development: Insights from the Brazilian context 
  Clarissa Alessandra Gambuzza (University of Zagreb), The art market in Croatia: local models in a global context
  Anna Karpińska (SWPS University, Warsaw), The informal art market in Poland and sustainable local development 
  
  

  WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 

• 9.30-10.30 Keynote: Anne-Sophie Radermecker (Université libre de Bruxelles) 
  Beyond Commerce. Uncovering the Societal Value of the Antiques Market 
  Chair: Francesco Angelini, University of Bologna, Italy  

• 10.30-12.00 Panel 5: Cultural policies and governance in the art world
  Chair: Adriana Turpin, IESA Arts&Culture, Paris, France
  Mara Cerquetti, Concetta Ferrara, and Annamaria Romagnoli (University of Macerata), Towards a (new) public governance? Innovating the cultural sector after the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of the Marche region, Italy
  Natasha Degen (Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York), Museums and sustainable policies
  Marcilio Toscano Franca Filho and Jadgleison Rocha Alves (Federal University of Paraíba and University of Florence), The impact of democratic participation in the reformulation of fiscal policy norms to ensure a sustainable and inclusive development of the art market: A comparative study between Brazil and Italy  
  
• 12.00-13.00 Lunch  
  
• 13.00-14.00 Panel 6: Art markets, cultural heritage and tourism 
  Chair: Silvia Emili, University of Bologna, Italy 
  Emanuela Canghiari (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Art market, tourism and sustainable development in Peru: examining the impact of (il)licit practices on heritage 
  Darius A. Spieth (Louisiana State University), Too many riches from the rags? Antique markets, cultural heritage, and gentrification: A case study of the “Espace Steinitz / habitat 1964” at St. Ouen  

• 14.00-15.30 Panel 7: Innovation and sustainability in the art market 
  Chair: Francesco Angelini, University of Bologna, Italy 
  Norio Tajima and Keiko Kawamata (Takushoku University), Developing a sustainable framework for local development through Japanese pop culture 
  Elisabetta Lazzaro (University for the Creative Arts), What place for digital innovation in a sustainable art market? 
  Cristina Boniotti and Silvia Cerisola (Polytechnic University of Milan), Sustainable strategies for enhancing local development through cultural heritage 
• 15.30-16.00 Break 
  
• 16.00-17.00 Round Table 

 Funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) - Mission 4 Education and research - Component 2 From research to business - Investment 1.1 Notice Prin 2022 - DD N. 104 del 2/2/2022, from title [TOWARDS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH A SUSTAINABLE VALORIZATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE], proposal code [2022M87K4F] - CUP [J53D23009430006]