Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity
The Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity is the office inside the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism dedicated to the contemporary. It fulfils different functions and roles in relation to the promotion, support, and valorization of Italian contemporary art and architecture, including photography and video art, of applied arts, including design and fashion, and architectural and urban quality. The Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity also supports cultural and creative industries and promotes urban regeneration interventions. It is divided into five units (DPCM 169/2019 art. 21).
Organization
The Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity is divided into five units:
* Unit 1 - Cultural and creative industries, fashion and design * Unit 2 - Contemporary art * Unit 3 - Contemporary architecture * Unit 4 - Peripheries and urban regeneration * Unit 5 - Photography
The History
The choice to provide the administration of cultural heritage with a division dedicated exclusively to contemporary issues dates back to 2001, the year of the institution of the DARC - Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture. It was created to accompany the traditional activities of conservation, protection, and restoration of ancient heritage with a new division dedicated to the promotion, stimulation, and valorization of contemporary creativity. This was a significant innovation: it marked the first integration between the conservation of cultural heritage and landscape and an attention toward contemporary art and architecture, assigned the same importance as evidence of the past (DPR 441/2000 art. 5).
Later, the directorate has undergone numerous changes, expanding or narrowing its field of action and changing in response to reforms of the Ministry.
In 2007, with the institution of the PARC - Directorate-General for the Quality and Conservation of the Contemporary Landscape, Art and Architecture, the division changed its name and function, acquiring a new responsibility for the landscape (DPR 233/2007 art. 7).
In 2009 the PARC was suppressed and its functions absorbed by Unit 5 of the PaBAAC - Directorate-General for the Landscape, Fine Arts, Contemporary Art and Architecture (DPR 91/2009 art. 1). In 2014 the Ministry created the DGAAP - Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries, expanding the responsibilities for contemporary issues to include the requalification of urban peripheries, for the first time a specific target of actions by the Ministry (DPCM 171/2014 art. 16).
In June 2019, the name of the division changed to Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity and Urban Regeneration, expanding its responsibilities (DPCM 76/2019 n. 76 art. 18). In December 2019, following a reorganization of the Ministry, the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity was established with the expansion of skills to the sectors of cultural and creative industries, fashion, design, and photography, with the division into five units (DPCM 169/2019 art. 21 e DM del 28.01.2020).
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