Labour Iconography
The Observatory on the Iconography of Work was set up in 2021 in collaboration with the Department of Communication and Economics.
The themes it focuses on are the representation of work starting from Short on Work, an international competition for short videos on contemporary work, conceived and launched in 2012 by the Marco Biagi Foundation within the framework of the PhD Course in “Work, Development and Innovation”.
The Observatory’s objective is to build up an audiovisual archive of an international nature, thanks to the various editions of the competition that have contributed to nurture it, capable of providing a heterogeneous and multifaceted representation of work. In this sense, underlying the competition is a broader area of interest relating to the forms of representation of work, which moves along different research lines, in the wake of Visual Studies.
Contacts
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For more information, please contact:
Prof. Tommaso Fabbri
e-mail: tommaso.fabbri@unimore.it
Activities of the Observatory
The Observatory on the Iconography of Work offers different types of training activities to meet today’s needs for updating with different products, adopting innovative teaching methods and an approach based on interdisciplinarity.
The disciplinary sectors covered by the observatory are:
- Sociology of cultural and communication processes (Sps/08)
- Sociology of economic and labour processes (Sps/09)
- Music, theatre, cinema, television and audiovisual media (L-art/06)
- Business organisation (Secs-p/10)
- Economic policy (Secs-p/02)
- Political economy (Secs-p/01)
The Observatory’s research focuses on:
-Audiovisual representations as an object of research on the theme of work, capable of grasping its important transformations in a new and plural way, in particular on some important themes (the relationship between work and gender, the relationship between work and migration, the relationship between work and skills).
– Audiovisual representations as a research tool on the theme of work are extremely relevant both for the density they bring to field research and because they are able to constitute a particularly significant interpretative framework of reality within the contemporary society of the image.
– The heuristic and epistemological potential of video research.
– The ways of cataloguing and valorising audiovisual archives as cultural heritage.
– The digital infrastructures capable of enabling the multilevel use of audiovisual archives of international character, within the broader framework of the Digital Humanities.
- Antonella Capalbi, Research fellow, Unimore; responsible for SHORT on WORK
- Eleonora Costantini, Research fellow, Unimore; responsible for SHORT on WORK
- Tommaso Fabbri, Full Professor of Organisation and Human Resource Management, Unimore and member of the Scientific Committee of Marco Foundation; Scientific Director of the competition SHORT on WORK
- Giulia Piscitelli, Member of the Technical -administrative staff of the Marco Biagi Department of Economics, Unimore; collaborator of Officina Emilia; member of the steering committee of competition SHORT on WORK.