Events, seminars, talks by Tiziano Antognozzi
Conference in Rome
19-20 October 2015
Accademia di Danimarca / Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici
Articles by Tiziano Antognozzi
Event Management
In recent years, festivals have been increasing their prominence as a medium for endorsing local ... more In recent years, festivals have been increasing their prominence as a medium for endorsing local development, promoting tourism and improving city image. Subsequently, festivalisation of culture has become a growing phenomenon that not only serves for primary purposes, such as audience outreach, cultural creativity and exchange, but also brings along a significant resonance with extensive socioeconomic impacts both in and out of the local destination. On the other hand, cultural production has been evolving with increasing variety and availability of multimedia products and expanding its audience with new consumption patterns, thus, giving birth to emerging forms of alternative cultures. As an interesting example, the fantasy genre in popular culture became a large umbrella of declinations that includes literature, games, comics, cinema and their transmedial convergences, as well as related forms of lifestyle narratives. On the intersection of these two phenomena, this article aims at investigating the tourism impacts of a unique festival, a comic-con, Lucca Comics & Games (LC&G), in light of the festival motivations, experience and meanings. The history of LC&G dates back to 1966 and, today, it brings around 500.000 attendees to the historic city of Lucca as one of the biggest festivals dedicated to fantasy culture in the world. To investigate festival-related tourism impacts, we focused on the LC&G audience and conducted a comprehensive survey with 7.147 visitors during the event in 2015. The results indicate the uniqueness of the festival with a very loyal, big amount of audience and widespread impacts, including a drastic rise in the demand for tourism facilities with a high short-term direct economic impact. Nevertheless, tourism impacts, that is as an indispensable component of the festival and of crucial importance mainly for the development of the territory, occur intrinsically as a consequence of the festival's success to address its core communities' expectations, rather than being a primary aim.
Conference Presentations by Tiziano Antognozzi
Papers by Tiziano Antognozzi
PloS one, Feb 29, 2024
Over the past few decades, a growing body of evidence has emerged regarding the positive impact o... more Over the past few decades, a growing body of evidence has emerged regarding the positive impact of boardgames in promoting life skills and well-being in various settings including health, education, and military schooling. However, the use of boardgames with inmates for cultural and educational purposes is still an unexplored and fragmented area of research. Incorporating boardgames into correctional settings can be a complex challenge for correctional stakeholders who seek to identify innovative tools to enhance inmate education and promote integration into society after incarceration. This article outlines our scoping review protocol designed to map and evaluate published and grey literature on the motivational, psychological, and pedagogical considerations involved in the design and use of boardgames as an innovative approach to promoting life skills and well-being among inmates.
European Conference on Games Based Learning, Sep 28, 2023
Protein biosynthesis is a complex process that involves the transcription of DNA into mRNA and th... more Protein biosynthesis is a complex process that involves the transcription of DNA into mRNA and the subsequent translation of mRNA into proteins according to the genetic code. To introduce this fundamental process to a broad audience, we developed "The Language of Life", a game-based workshop that was presented at the Genoa Science Festival 2022, the largest science communication event in Italy. The game-based workshop employed jigsaw puzzle-like elements to represent DNA, mRNA, and aminoacyl transfer RNAs, enabling participants to pair them through codon combinations. The game-based workshop lasted for an hour and the framing was a "special mission" inside a cell. It consisted of an initial training phase that incorporated videos, models, and explanations, followed by practical "missions'' in which participants reproduce transcription and translation mechanisms by moving inside the cell and using the provided materials. The workshop was attended by 1,505 participants, primarily students aged 6-18, and received positive feedback. In this paper, we present our experience conducting this workshop and discuss its impact and potential for future use.
Event Management
In recent years, festivals have been increasing their prominence as a medium for endorsing local ... more In recent years, festivals have been increasing their prominence as a medium for endorsing local development, promoting tourism, and improving city image. Subsequently, festivalization of culture has become a growing phenomenon that not only serves for primary purposes, such as audience outreach, cultural creativity and exchange, but also brings along a significant resonance with extensive socioeconomic impacts both in and out of the local destination. On the other hand, cultural production has been evolving with increasing variety and availability of multimedia products and expanding its audience with new consumption patterns; thus, giving birth to emerging forms of alternative cultures. As an interesting example, the fantasy genre in popular culture became a large umbrella of declinations that includes literature, games, comics, cinema, and their transmedial convergences, as well as related forms of lifestyle narratives. On the intersection of these two phenomena, this article aim...
This work intends to offer a contribution to the history of the artistic scene of Rome in the 19t... more This work intends to offer a contribution to the history of the artistic scene of Rome in the 19th century alongside the decline and fall of the Catholic theocratic regime in the Papal States by focusing on a specific moment of the city’s history known as the “Roman Revolution”, namely the years that went from the election of Pius IX (June 16, 1846) to the end of the Roman Republic (July 3, 1849). Indeed, the new Pope brought an unprecedented opening to active citizenship which is legit to identify as a cohesive mobilization of society due to the fall of access barriers to active citizenship and the flourishing of new opportunities for participation. By simultaneously studying how the mobilization impacted the artists and how the artists interacted with the same, this work confides to provide an entirely fresh perspective regarding the social identity of the Roman artistic scene. The most original contribution to this history is here represented by the fortunate retrieval of the Pon...
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Events, seminars, talks by Tiziano Antognozzi
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