Researching Art Market past to present:
Tools for the future

International Workshop #10

The art market, heritage and sustainable local development

University of Bologna
Rimini Campus
1-2 July 2025

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.

Programme

Day one

  • 9.30 Welcome
  • 10.00-11.00 Keynote: Charlotte Gould (Université Paris Nanterre, Paris)
  • 11.00-12.30 Panel 1: The art market and local policies for tourism and socioeconomic development
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

Day two

  • 9.30-10.30 Keynote: Anne-Sophie Radermecker (Université libre de Bruxelles)
  • 10.30-12.00 Panel 5: Cultural policies and governance in the art world
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

This workshop is supported by the PRIN 2022 project, funded by Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca. Grant 2022M87K4F: Towards local development through a sustainable valorization of cultural heritage. Main principal investigator: Prof. Silvia Cerisola (Polytechnic University of Milan); local principal investigator: Dr. Silvia Emili (University of Bologna).

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