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The concept of resilience, established in the literature and in psycho-therapeutic interventions as well as in sustainable development models such as that of the PNRR, is making its appearance in the educational field, in special contexts related to post-traumatic situations and as a generalist intervention aimed at mitigating the effects of the complex society founded on crisis and uncertainty, as an approach aimed at prevention and the promotion of attitudes and skills to cope with the unexpected and overcome adversity. The resilience construct constitutes a paradigmatic dimension as an organizer of meaning epistemologically grounded in the assumptions of complexity theory, such as, for example, the questioning of the linear causality nexus that produces a vicious predictive effect toward states of vulnerability. It implies a different representation of vulnerability producing the dual effect of: transforming adversity and suffering into resources and opportunities for learning and training; and regenerating the community dimension and social and collective empowerment. This paper will present the main aims of the lines of action of the international project RESUPERES Resilience in Higher Education or University Context: overcoming adversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last few years, artists' archives have gained a central role in the debate on the nature, treatment and valorization of 20th century and contemporary archives. They are fascinating and precious aggregations, characterized by a plurality of documentary typologies and by specific requirements for their description. Starting from the definition of personal archives, the paper proposes a definition of artists' archives and then attempts to indicate their main characteristics, contents and elements of complexity. Finally, the paper attempts to establish a dialogue between archivists and artists, collectors, gallery owners, critics and curators in order to find common elements and differences in their actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The difficult pursuit of a comparison between anthropology and psychology, undertaken by Ernesto de Martino, raised many perplexities in the Italian cultural landscape of the 1960s. In this paper, first the obstacles he encountered during his research project on cultural apocalypses and end-of-the-world delusions are discussed. Subsequently, the new cultural setting of the 1980s, witnessing the emergence of new paradigms of thought favourable to rethinking the relationship between the individual psyche and the cultural sphere, is described. In this perspective, de Martino's pioneering thought, aimed at understanding how the human presence is intrinsically linked to cultural institutions, paved the way to the development of a complex psychology. The specific contribution of de Martino was to usher, with no prejudice whatsoever, and actually with stringent rigor and in-depth intuition, in an area in which methods of investigation and different types of knowledge about human existence are often undefined, contaminated, and undifferentiated. This is an area that today we can better approach through the various complexity theories, but at that time it was pioneered in Italy by de Martino. This led him to develop an unconventional and original intellectual trajectory, totally unlinked to the prevailing culture, a trajectory that in fact some authors have compared to that of Michel Foucault. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I propose an alternative semantic history of nomos, linking it to sense and the nature of image, rather, of geographical chora as image. In the light of this link, I outline an idea of regional geography as chorography, whose topicality lies, first of all, in being knowledge about sense. My reading of the relationship between nomos and sense differs from both Carl Schmitt's and Gilles Deleuze's, to the same extent that my interpretation of the nature of image, based on Plato's thought, differs from the interpretation they respectively offer of Plato's legacy. Rereading the nature of image in Plato means, in my view, understanding the original nature of complexity. Consequently, a (regional) geography conceived as chorography possesses already in its name, derived from chora-image, a key conceptual tool to face today's major epistemological challenge, that is understanding the world in terms of complexity. The concept of nomos is regarded here as a fil rouge between all the concepts taken into consideration: region, image, ethics, happiness. All these concepts - I argue - are associated with one another inasmuch as they shape, and share with the concept of nomos, an idea of complexity, based on the tension between striation and mobility, which makes them tools for narrating and inchoatively rethinking, reimagining, today's world and also our identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DE is one of the essential references of each evaluation that wander to support complex programmes’ dynamics engaging social actors in gathering, analysing and using research evidences. Reviewing some practical experimentation of DE and referring to the recent debate about the analytical dimensions of complexity, the article unveil that this approach is capable to explore mainly the social dimensions of complexity, but that it fails in tackling the technical and the institutional ones. Finally, the paper analyses how some recent evolution of DE (as outcome-based evaluation) stimulated its original framework toward some theoretical perspectives and methodological devices that can empower DE’s capability to understand also the technical and institutional dimensions of complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]