Musei al Centro

22.10.2024 \\

Fondazione Morra Greco hosted Musei al Centro, a day of research and experiential practices to examine the role of the museum as a tool for social, physical and cognitive well-being.

Musei al Centro was held on October 22, 2024, in the spaces of the San Severo al Pendino church – as part of the public program for the exhibition Imitación Controlada, carried out within the Program for Contemporary Art funded by the Municipality of Naples – and the rooms of Fondazione Morra Greco.

Museum practices are continuously expanding and proving potential in promoting individual and collective well-being. We now acknowledge museums as places that foster personal interaction, learning and growth: viewers are no longer passive recipients of the artworks and the sites they inhabit but rather interact with them and become protagonists in an ever-exchanging conversation between cultural institutions and community.

The day was split into two panels, each aiming to discuss the importance of museum activities for the physical health – looking into practices such as art therapy and interactive tours – and the impact museum activities have on cognitive development, learning and memory.
Centering the Museum was primarily intended for museum professionals, educators, curators and students.

10:30 am – 1:00 pm | San Severo al Pendino Church

Pratiche multisensoriali per la mediazione nei musei (Multisensory practices for museum mediation)

Starting from the Imitación Controlada installation by Fidel García, the event explores how the sensorial dimension, in particular listening and the use of the body, can be integrated into museum mediation practices to facilitate learning and the museum experience. Combining a more theoretical part and a workshop-based one, Brita Köhler (Museion museum of modern and contemporary art in Bolzano) and Domenico Napolitano (Scuola Superiore Meridionale) will address the theme of the use of sensoriality as a resource and language for artistic practices, of mediation and interaction, between the body of those who experience the fruition of one or more works, space and time, favouring active involvement and reinventing the dimension of well-being.

With
Brita Köhler, Museion museum of modern and contemporary art in Bolzano
Domenico Napolitano, Scuola Superiore Meridionale

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Accessibility is an increasingly decisive factor in contemporary society. It involves the transformation and sometimes the re-evaluation of social spaces and cultural formats so that they present no barriers for anyone, regardless of their physical, psychological or social characteristics. In the museum sphere, the issue of accessibility is increasingly relevant: in addition to the implementation of devices that enable the navigation of spaces (from ramps to lifts, from acoustic signals to traffic lights, up to tactile paths), accessibility increasingly concerns artistic production itself, both in terms of technologies (audio description, subtitles, voice-over, AI-based image descriptions, speech synthesis) and languages. Indeed, from disability activism to so-called crip theory, there are an increasing number of examples of works that turn accessibility into a real artistic language, blurring the boundaries between what pertains to the museum organisation and what pertains to the artists themselves. This presentation will review artistic experiences and best practices in accessibility, investigating how they are transforming formats, aesthetics, modes of production, but also organisational culture and practices.
The work of artist Fidel García confronts us with the powerlessness of getting lost in the dynamics of mass, dominated by different and overlapping emotions. The artist expands this experience through an immersive and provocative approach to the elements of sound and space. In the workshop, we will immerse ourselves in García's multi-layered, non-verbal sound installation. Through multisensory exercises, we will search for our lost intimacy, but also for a balanced relationship with the and others.

3:00 – 6:30 pm | Fondazione Morra Greco

Culture and health. Well-being at the museum

Roundtable and co-planning session

Modern museums have stopped being intended solely for preservation: rather they have become key players in promoting the well-being of individuals and communities. As a matter of fact one of their main objectives has been the ability to encourage the psychological and physical well-being of different audiences through a strategy that values social responsibility, inclusion and respect for diversity.
A growing number of initiatives, both at the national and international level, demonstrate how culture can contribute to health and well-being. Drawing on these innovative experiences, the panel Culture and Health. Well-being at the Museum provides a space of exchange to address the current state as well as future developments of this fertile ground.
During the event experts from a variety of fields (neuroscience, medicine, biology, psychology and narrative medicine) will join in conversation museum professionals to investigate the potential of museums as sources of well-being. This will provide a unique opportunity to brainstorm ideas and stimulate interactions between culture and health. The aim is to build a future where cultural institutions can contribute to improving the quality of life.

The conference was realized thanks to a grant from the Direzione generale Educazione, ricerca e istituti culturali.

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Greetings
Maurizio Morra Greco, Fondazione Morra Greco

Host and moderator
Alessandra Drioli, Scientific Committee EDI Global Forum by Fondazione Morra Greco

Speakers

Annalisa Banzi, Centro Studi sulla Storia del Pensiero Biomedico (CESPEB) dell’Università La Bicocca di Milano
Musei brain-friendly: i progetti ASBA e Bewe per contribuire a generare esperienze trasformative nei visitatori e nello staff museale

Mia Landi, MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale – Fondazione Torino Musei
Il museo: la bellezza che cura

Alessia Zanchetta e Giovanna Garzotto, Operaestate/CSC/Dance Well
Il Progetto Dance Well

Helen Charman, Young V&A (online participation)
V&A South Kensington 

Kornelia Kiss, Culture Action Europe (online participation)
Co-author of the CultureForHealth report

Rosanna Romano, Direzione Generale per le politiche culturali e il Turismo della Regione Campania
Governance della cultura e Benessere della Comunità

Fabio Babiloni, Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza
Neuroscienze e arte nei musei: un matrimonio possibile

Paola Villani, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa
La medicina narrativa per il benessere

Brita Köhler, Museion museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano
IN TUTTI I SENSI! Formati del benessere culturale al Museion

Annalisa Cicerchia, Cultural Welfare Center (online participation)
Verso la prescrizione sociale

Valeria Apicella, puntozerovaleriaapicella
La logica della sensazione | A proposito dell’installazione CARE

Giulia Torromino, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II e Numero Cromatico
I superstimoli dell’arte per migliorare le funzioni umane

Guglielmo Maglio, Fondazione IDIS – Città della Scienza
Progetto WELL_CDS

Tina Iachini, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Ambiente e benessere

Palazzo Maffei (video participation)
Progetto Minerva

 

Visual mapping design by Camilla Amato, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Dipartimento di Salute Mentale e Fisica e Medicina Preventiva and Giovanna Nichilò, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Architettura

 

Discussant

Dario Aquilina, psicologo, Teatro dell’Anima
Erminia Attanese, CREE Center for the Registration of the European Ergonomist
Francesca Blandino, Fondazione Morra Greco
Floriana Carelli, Biblioteca e Complesso monumentale dei Girolamini
Deanna Castino, Biblioteca e Complesso monumentale dei Girolamini
Ernesto Colutta, Terme Stufe di Nerone
Ciro Cozzolino, Ospedale dei Pellegrini
Antonella Cuccinielllo, Biblioteca e Complesso monumentale dei Girolamini
Luciano de Venezia, Mediateur
Mario De Finis, Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedali dei Colli
Luigi Di Prisco, PO Frangipane ASL Av1
Marco Elia, Universitas Mercatorum
Anna Fresa, ADI Associazione Disegno Industriale Delegazione Campania
Ciro Gallo, Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Carla Giusti, ADI Associazione Disegno Industriale Delegazione Campania
Fabio Pignatelli, Progetto Itaca Napoli
Marianella Pucci, ICOM Campania
Alessandra Raiola, ERA Cooperativa Sociale (invited)
Daniela Savy, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Armando Traglia, Archivio di Stato di Napoli
Giacomo Smarrazzo, Gesco (invited)
Pasqualina Uccello, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
Angela Vocciante, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (invited)

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