Published February 2026 | Version v1
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PLACES - Portraits and Landscapes of Academic Community Engaged Scholarship

  • 1. ROR icon University of Sassari
  • 2. ROR icon Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth
  • 3. CNR-IRCRES Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of the National Research Council of Italy
  • 4. ROR icon National Research Council
  • 5. ROR icon Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari

Description

This is the photographic book which goes along with the PLACES exhibition. This book is in Italian

Nine portraits. Three countries. One question: how can academia work differently?
Some people turn markers and glitter into scientific tools. Others set up labs where different subjects and knowledge can mix. Some find out about reciprocity when they receive.
Architects of impossible spaces, weavers of decades-long relationships, researchers who bring communities and universities together.
PLACES searched Italy, France and the United Kingdom for an academy that rarely appears in league tables. We found it: in markets, school canteens and neglected buildings.
This photographic book and the accompanying exhibition are an invitation to a convivial conversation around crucial questions – What kind of university do we want? How can we shape it? – starting from a journey into the academy that produces collective value, where different kinds of knowledge meet, where people and relationships find meaning again, where communities open up.

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Additional details

Identifiers

ISBN
978-88-947309-3-7

Funding

Ministero dell'università e della ricerca
Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) 2022C7PR32

Dates

Issued
2026-02-19