Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio, in partnership with the University of Urbino, Marche Polytechnic University, SID Ltd, and Marchingegno Ltd, conducts activities under the TOCC – Capacity Building for Cultural Operators to Manage the Ecological Transition programme, centred on environmental sustainability and digital transition.

The aforementioned Focus Group is intended as a brief initial forum for discussion among experts, businesses, artisan professionals, and end-users.

Through public-facing activities (guided tours, workshops, training courses, and study days), Lisio Foundation observes the captivation experienced by participants when engaging with textile arts, the excellence of hand-weaving, and the beauty of tools and artefacts displayed in our gallery.

In our experience, the emotional and cognitive stimulus arising from encounters with master artisans’ work can act as a catalyst for craft professions – particularly those revitalised in response to emergent environmental, social, economic, and digital sustainability challenges.

Hence our interest in examining the role of industrial heritage museums as spaces to:

Safeguard knowledge of invaluable crafts,
Inspire engagement with manual arts.

Event included in the project ECOART TOCC B1.1 “Green Open Events”
ID PNRRBI-20230003368388/1, CUP C31B23000390004
Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

Under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 1: “Digitisation, Innovation, Competitiveness, Culture and Tourism”, Component 3: “Tourism and Culture 4.0”, MEASURE 3: “Cultural and Creative Industries 4.0”, INVESTMENT 3.3: “Capacity building for cultural operators to manage the green and digital transition”, Sub-investment 3.3.3: “Promoting the reduction of the ecological footprint of cultural events by fostering the inclusion of social and environmental criteria in public procurement policies, thereby steering the supply chain towards eco-innovation of products and services”.