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
2 May 2024
Progetto Borghi, paesi, aree interne: infrastrutture, sostenibilità e qualità della vita
9 May 2024
IMT Seminar
Marcella Simoni
(Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Lecture on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict
NEWS
Prospettive sul collezionismo
Lynx participates in the series Pillole di Scienza (IMT / OPEN)
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).
