Design Research for the Cultural and Creative Industries.

The DRLab in the past two years has focused its efforts on the development of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) in Trentino, in collaboration with the Santa Chiara Cultural Service Center.

The main objective of this initiative was to identify and field Strategies for support, growth and enhancement of this field, both nationally and internationally.

Networking and deepening the creative landscape

DRLab activities have focused on two basic pillars:

• Networking: Through the organization of twenty seminars and webinars, held at the Department of Humanities and Philosophy, DRLab has facilitated the dialogue and connection among the different actors in the cultural and creative sector in Trentino.
• Insight into the creative landscape: The seminars made it possible to analyze and compare the cultural and creative realities of Trentino with those of other areas, bringing out Problems, critical issues, expectations and ideas for the future.

Research and development tools

DRLab's research has focused on the need to build a network of businesses, associations and other stakeholders that can designing and creating new scenarios For the development of CCI. To this end, the following were used Processes and tools developed by design thinking and service design.

Collaboration and dissemination

For the dissemination and enhancement of its research activities, DRLab organized seminars, conferences, workshops and webinars. It also keeps active Collaborations with national and international partners, care scientific publications and provides Research support for students, fellows and faculty.

Some of the achievements:

• Report "The architecture of the school: space as a third educator" originated from a seminar held at the Department of Humanities in December 2021;
• Report "Design for Cultural and Creative Industries" presented at the Italian Institute of Germanic Studies in Rome, with the aim of creating a network of German-Italian partners for the promotion of CCI.