1248 | 327 | Sporting cultural production and the city: places, heritage, participation and identities. The Bologna case study. | Valerio della Sala, Giovanna Russo
The following contribution aims to offer the results of the SportCityCult (SCC) research project, with the objective of reconstructing the link between the city and sport, rediscovering its potential as tangible and intangible «capital». The research analyses the ways in which this capital produces indirect socio-cultural, educational and symbolic effects, as well as the potential connections between event policy and sporting practices, both consolidated and emerging, between sport and the image of the city. Sport, a privileged area of investment in the Eventful City perspective, the city can in fact bring its sporting cultural heritage into play also through the legacy of events on a territorial scale, acting as a catalyst for urban and social regeneration whose effects are strategic for the host community. The analysis focuses on the relationship between the city of Bologna and sport, a field in which the city is putting itself back into play in order to assert itself on the national scene, starting from the experience of «Bologna Capital of Culture 2000», which has included numerous cultural events, reviews, celebratory exhibitions, with Culture and Communication as the main theme. In particular, the theme of the city has been studied mainly in reference to major international sporting events, whose debate has pursued a plurality of objectives: material legacy, urban regeneration, economic development, following rather an approach of urban geography in consideration of the space where it takes place. The SCC project aims to define the impact of sport on the social life of the city, intercepting the historical political process, social and cultural change, and the construction of the collective memory of a community through the relationships that the sporting phenomenon has inscribed in the main symbolic places of Bologna from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
Valerio della Sala, Giovanna Russo
University of Bologna
ID Abstract: 327