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Making Prestigious Places investigates the spatial dimension of luxury, both as a sector involving activities, operators and investments, and as a system of values acting as a catalyst for recent urban transformations. Luxury shares a well-established connection to the city, as a place of production, consumption and self-representation, and continues to grow despite economic difficulties. This edited collection includes case studies from Europe, North and South America, Asia and the Middle East to create a dialogue around these developments and the challenges presented, such as the tension between the idea of prestige and current values in urban planning, the discussion between academic reflections and operational practices, and how these interact with the long term economic and social dynamic of the city. With rich analysis and a preface written by Patsy Healey, this book will be an important addition to the discourse on luxury for urban planners and researchers.

Published by The Marignoli di Montecorona Foundation in the occasion of Meta Grgurevič "Impossible Machines" exhibitions at Umetnostna galerija Maribor, Slovenia (29 November 2019 – 1 March 2020) and at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria (1 February – 2 April 2020).
Edited by: M. Drascek / Texts: M. Drascek, S. Droschl, D. K. Marignoli, S. Vidmar / Publisher: Editoriale Umbra, Foligno.

"Making Prestigious Places investigates the spatial dimension of luxury, both as a sector involving activities, operators and investments, and as a system of values acting as a catalyst for recent urban transformations. Luxury shares a well-established connection to the city, as a place of production, consumption and selfrepresentation, and continues to grow despite economic difficulties. This edited collection includes case studies from Europe, North and South America, Asia and the Middle East to create a dialogue around these developments and the challenges presented, such as the tension between the idea of prestige and current values in urban planning, the discussion between academic reflections and operational practices, and how these interact with the long term economic and social dynamic of the city. With rich analysis and a foreword written by Patsy Healey, this book will be an important addition to the discourse on luxury for urban planners and researchers."

(abstract in Italian and English)

EXHIBIT! esplora lo sfaccettato panorama della mostra di moda da diversi punti di vista − socioculturale, storico, estetico − con particolare attenzione
alle contaminazioni tra arte e mercato.
La prima parte del libro è dedicata alla storia, alla teoria, ai diversi approcci al curating di moda e alle sue recenti trasformazioni nei principali paesi in cui questa pratica si è sviluppata: Europa, con un focus sul caso italiano, Stati Uniti e Asia. La seconda parte del libro propone alcune ipotesi di ricerca
sulle relazioni tra lo spazio della mostra e lo spazio della marca, dal negozio, ai cosiddetti “fashion hotel”, fino alle fondazioni d’arte a nome dei grandi marchi del lusso. Nel tracciare un’inedita prospettiva sul consumo culturale, il volume offre al lettore una visione originale della cura della mostra con l’intento di problematizzare sia lo statuto della moda sia quello della marca nel contesto contemporaneo.

LUCA MARCHETTI, semiotico di formazione e specializzato sulla moda,
 è professore a contratto per chiara fama all’Università di Bologna, visiting professor e ricercatore alla HEAD di Ginevra e senior lecturer all'IFM a Parigi, dove lavora anche come curatore e consulente per aziende internazionali. Oltre alle collaborazioni per riviste come Vogue e Domus, è autore di pubblicazioni come Fashion Curating / La Mode Exposée (HEAD – Ginevra, 201 6) 
e Simplifier (con E. Quinz, it:éditions, 2017). Tra i suoi progetti curatoriali: Object of Ordinary Madness (Kühlraum Gallery, Vienna, 201 4), Foulards (Biennale Internationale de St. Étienne, 201 3), Basic Instincts (con E. Quinz, Berlino, 2011 ; Shanghai, 2012) e Dysfashional (con E. Quinz, Lussemburgo, 2007; Losanna, 2008; Berlino, 2009; Parigi e Mosca 2010; Jakarta, 2011).

SIMONA SEGRE-REINACH, antropologa culturale, è professore associato presso l'Università di Bologna. Il suo ambito di ricerca riguarda la globalizzazione
e la rappresentazione della moda. Tra le sue pubblicazioni principali
si segnalano: Orientalismi (Meltemi 2006), La moda. Un'introduzione (Laterza 201 0), Un mondo di mode (Laterza 201 1 ). Fa parte del comitato scientifico di riviste di moda internazionali, quali Fashion Theory, International Journal of Fashion Studies, Critical Studies on Fashion and Beauty. Ha curato progetti allestitivi e mostre, tra cui 80s 90s Facing Beauties. Italian Fashion
 and Japanese fashion at a Glance (Rimini Museo della città 2013, curatela) e Jungle. L’immaginario animale nella moda (Torino, Venaria Reale 2017, direzione scientifica e co-curatela).

EXHIBIT! explores the multi-faceted field of fashion exhibitions curation from a socio-cultural, an historical and an aesthetic angle. The main features and approaches that characterize this practice internationally are considered within the frame of contemporary popular cultural, with a particular attention given to the contaminations between the art and the market.
In the first part of the book the authors discuss the theory and practice of curating, analysing the critical-historical transformations within geographical and cultural variations. Specific relation with art and the museum entails different curation styles in Northern and Southern Europe, the United States and Asia. The second part of the book suggests some innovative research hypothesis on the evolving relation between the art space of the exhibition and branded spaces, such as "shops”, "fashion hotels" and "art foundations" in the name of major luxury brands. Sketching a new perspective on cultural consumption, the book drives the reader's attention on the curation of fashion in space as an emerging practice to explore both the status of fashion the nature of nowadays brands from an original point of view.

LUCA MARCHETTI  is professor and researcher at the HEAD – Genève (CH), Contract Professor of Highest Repute at the University of Bologna (I) and Senior Lecturer at the IFM Institut Français de la Mode (Paris, FR). Based in Paris, he also works internationally as brand consultant and exhibition curator. Beside his collaborations with magazines such as Vogue or Domus, he regularly contributes to editorial publications on fashion and design. Among 
his curatorial projects: Blasé (with Hadas Zucker, Shanghai-Bologna, 2016), Tillmann Lauterbach: Object of Ordinary Madness (Vienna, 2014), Foulards (Lyon, 2013). The exhibitions Basic Instincts (Berlin, 2011; Shanghai, 2012), Dysfashional (Luxembourg, 2007; Lausanne, 2008; Berlin, 2009; Paris and Moscow 2010; Jakarta, 2011) and EN:TRANCE (Bolzano 2004, Paris 2007) were co-curated with Emanuele Quinz

SIMONA SEGRE-REINACH is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Fashion Studies at Bologna University. She has written extensively on fashion from a global perspective. in the books such as Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010), The Fashion History Reader (2010), Fashion Media. Past and Present (2013), as well as published articles in Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, Business and Economic History, and Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty. She is also involved in Fashion Curation Studies. She sits in the Editorial Board of Fashion Theory, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty and The International Journal of Fashion Studies. She has done field work in China on Sino-Italian joint ventures contributing to a collaborative study in Cultural Anthropology. In Italy she authored: Mode in Italy. Una lettura antropologica (Guerini 1999), La moda. Un’introduzione (Laterza 2005 and 2010), Orientalismi. La moda nel mercato globale (Meltemi 2006), Un mondo di mode (Laterza 2011). She curated the exhibitions “80s-90s Facing Beauties. Italian Fashion and Japanese fashion at a Glance” (Rimini Museo della città 2013) and “Jungle. The Imagery of Animals in Fashion” (Torino, Venaria Reale 2017).

The aim of this study is to investigate the efficiency and importance of human resources management in nonprofit organizations. The understanding was included to the literature as personnel management at the beginning of the twentieth century and it turned into an approach as human resources management in the 1980s. It could be observed that many organizations, which deem the human as the most critical stakeholder, adopt a traditional way of personnel management in operating human resources. The employees play a key role in the success of an organization. For this reason, subjects such as recruitment , training, development, career management, performance appraisal, occupational health, and safety are the fundamental functions of human resources management. The study examines to what extent these roles are evaluated through a case study. The subject matter of the study is the most powerful culture and art foundation in Turkey. Compared to many other nonprofit organizations, the foundation actively performs a variety of services within a year worldwide. The fact that the total number of employees might rise up to 800, including the field personnel, indicates the need of a good functioning human resources management. The human resources practices of the foundation are examined and evaluated within that scope.

This journal documents a one-semester art studio celebrating the values of flexibility, community, discovery, care and transference. Using expansive definitions of two-dimensional media (painting, graphic design, photography, color, and print media), projects engaged improvisational , experimental, formal, and conceptual modes of practice. Using a collaborative teaching model, projects and presentations addressed topics such as color, mapping, letterforms, body collages, light/shadow and altars from different disciplinary and historical perspectives. Group projects, such as performances with shadows, used the capacity of large groups to create complex works and to form a dynamic community. Working as a group challenged understanding of authorship and allowed everyone to work beyond individual capacity.

-Provides a firm foundation in the techniques, elements, and principles of 4D art and design for majors and non-majors alike
-Builds upon the basic elements of 2D and 3D design to identify 4D elements as they relate to emerging practices
-Thoroughly explores the principles of causality, duration, intensity, interactivity, musicality, spatial relationships, speed, and transitions as they impact the creation of 4D artworks
-Features over one hundred exercises and interviews with contemporary artists
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""Newly homed in what used to be an old power station, the Mario Merz Foundation in Turin, Italy, promotes young artists and has a study center, an archive of their works, and a full schedule of exhibitions on contemporary research and experimentation while at the same time conserving and displaying Merz's own works, which are set out around the spacious premises. The foundation, which opened in April 2005, ensures that the old industrial architecture interacts with the works of art in a solemnly civic way. The building's central core pulsates with life again by means of wide glass windows, and there are no predetermined pathways inside.
From: database Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)"

Power station is renovated as Mario Merz Foundation headquarters. Project direction and interior lighting by Mariano Boggia; building restoration by Fassiano and Roluti.
From: Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals