Sustainable Cultural Creative Enterprises for “public cultural spaces”

In the international debate, culture has a strategic role for sustainable development especially if referred to public space planning. In the European scenario, traditional urban planning and design approaches have been integrated with new operational tools able to redefine public and private urban boundaries for promoting sustainable public spaces and creating new economies through Cultural Creative Enterprises (CCEs). The understanding of the CCEs sector, elaborated through an exploration of scholarly articles, reports, and policy documents provides an understanding of structural characteristics, including future trends, challenges, and opportunities, both nationally and internationally. The analysis revealed the potential of creativity as a driver of innovation that is particularly suitable in public spaces especially in “public cultural places” like cultural infrastructure (e.g. museums, libraries, etc.) or hubs (such as creative hubs or incubators) that dialogue with urban spaces and functions. In this perspective, the research analyses best practices related to the report (2023) “100 Italian Cultural Spaces Stories” which studies Italian technologies and innovations in cultural spaces around the world. Within these 100 realities, the research selected and analyzed twelve organizations through an interpretive framework developed thanks to the study of literature and policies.