LYNX
Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Images, Contexts, Cultural Heritage
LYNX is the Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Images, Contexts, Cultural Heritage. It is a research unit of the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, connected to the Curricula in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage (AMCH) and Museum Studies (MUST) programs within the PhD in Cultural Systems. Moreover, LYNX participates in the Phd program in Management of Digital Transformation (MDT) and contributes to the National PhD in Heritage Science.
LYNX promotes and carries out case study based research projects concerning the mechanisms of image production and their contextually specific reception and use. It does privilege projects that adopt multidisciplinary strategies of analysis.
EVENTS
27-28 March 2025
ARTI IN DIALOGO
Lucca alla fine del Medioevo
Museo nazionale di Villa Guinigi, Sala Conferenze
(Via della Quarquonia 4, Lucca)
23-26 June 2025
LYNX Summer School
"Globalising the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Europe"
San Francesco Complex, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
28 March 2025
MACCHINE, LIMITI, RAPPRESENTAZIONI
Appunti sulle intelligenze artificiali
Fabio Pammolli
(Politecnico di Milano)
Cappella Guinigi,
Complesso di San Francesco
NEWS
Phd Program in Cultural System (CS)
The new call for applications is now open!
Application deadline: May 28th, 2025
Podcast series
The episodes of the new podcast series are being released. Visits to relevant places are being organized.
OUR RESEARCH THEMES
Role of Images, Objects and Spaces (Production, Contextual Reception, Uses, Tangible and Intangible Dimensions, from Antiquity onwards);
Image Tradition and Perception, Media (from Antiquity onwards, including Film Studies, Photography);
Difficult Heritage: Analysis, Management, Organization;
Digitization of Cultural Heritage;
Cultural Heritage Law and Globalization;
East and West (from Antiquity onwards).
