Museums Take Care

Museums look after us. They are no longer merely spaces for preserving and promoting the value of their collections, but active points of reference within their respective social fabric. Places capable of welcoming, stimulating, entertaining and captivating: as recognised by the WHO, they are catalysts for cultural wellbeing, possess therapeutic value, and play an active role in preventing ill-health and improving quality of life.

Presentations:

• Unexpected Architectures of Well-being
  Marco Borsotti, Associate Professor of Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design, ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, Scientific Director of Softlab Mimex – Museum Innovation, Management and Exhibition Design.
• Introduction to the theme: Museum and Well-being
  Enzo Grossi, Surgeon, gastroenterologist, university lecturer, Scientific Director of the ‘Villa Santa Maria’ Institute of Child Neuropsychiatry in Tavernerio (Como) and Scientific Advisor to the Bracco Foundation, Milan. Active in the fields of art, culture and health with hundreds of scientific publications. He is a founding member of the Cultural Welfare Centre in Turin.
• The welcoming museum as a place to recharge one’s batteries and rediscover oneself. From the ‘restorative effect’ to the conscious design of the museum experience
  Emma Sedini, an official at the Culture Department of the City of Milan, where she is responsible for the performing arts, arts and museum partnerships, strategic research and the analysis of cultural audiences. She contributes as a journalist to Artribune Magazine, writing on art, cultural management and cultural policy.

Discussants:

• Pilar M. Guerrieri, Historian of Architecture and Environment, DASTU, Politecnico di Milano.
• Fabio Mosca, Full Professor of Paediatrics and the Rector’s delegate for Urban Health issues, University of Milan.

The seminar is awaiting CFP accreditation from the Milan Order of Architects P.P.C.