Documentation center
Elisabetta Falchetti CEDEF
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We must feed people’s imagination: a vibrant imagination is the only way to build a sustainable future and identify the strategies to achieve it.
Elisabetta Falchetti
The Elisabetta Falchetti Documentation Center was established to provide students, scholars, and the curious with the library and documentary heritage that ECCOM has acquired over more than 25 years of activity. The collection of books, journals, research reports, conference proceedings, and documents was created not only thanks to the natural development of the work and projects, but also through the specific commitment to documentation and in-depth study by the people who have worked there.
Elisabetta Falchetti
Elisabetta Falchetti was a naturalist zoologist, museologist, and science popularizer who died in 2022. Her extraordinary figure has been a source of inspiration, and the decision to name the center after her is a tangible tribute to her intellectual legacy and the hope that she can continue to influence and motivate anyone who comes into contact with her story.
As a staunch environmentalist, Elisabetta Falchetti believed it was necessary to create a fairer, more equitable, and sustainable society, and that science, museums, and cultural institutions should do their part. Indeed, she always felt the need for a new museology oriented toward the needs of communities, especially marginalized ones, one that was capable of stimulating reflection on social priorities and creating “contact zones.”
She borrowed this image from the scientific world to describe how museums should become places where different cultures, histories, and perspectives meet and interact. Her constant commitment translated into a powerful tool for realizing opportunities for participation in cultural life, stimulating creative interaction, and fostering profound exchange, thereby promoting the building of significant bridges between diversity and knowledge. These values reflect the very essence of ECCOM’s mission.
Elisabetta Falchetti was a colleague, a friend, an passionate scientist, and a scholar. Her love for books and her ability to get to the bottom of everything, both in theory and practice, allowed her to move beyond classic research areas to develop innovative tools that would improve the cultural life (and thus life tout court) of everyone, promoting action-research.
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We must feed people’s imagination: a vibrant imagination is the only way to build a sustainable future and identify the strategies to achieve it.
Elisabetta Falchetti
The Elisabetta Falchetti Documentation Center was established to provide students, scholars, and the curious with the library and documentary heritage that ECCOM has acquired over more than 25 years of activity. The collection of books, journals, research reports, conference proceedings, and documents was created not only thanks to the natural development of the work and projects, but also through the specific commitment to documentation and in-depth study by the people who have worked there.
Elisabetta Falchetti
Elisabetta Falchetti was a naturalist zoologist, museologist, and science popularizer who died in 2022. Her extraordinary figure has been a source of inspiration, and the decision to name the center after her is a tangible tribute to her intellectual legacy and the hope that she can continue to influence and motivate anyone who comes into contact with her story.
As a staunch environmentalist, Elisabetta Falchetti believed it was necessary to create a fairer, more equitable, and sustainable society, and that science, museums, and cultural institutions should do their part. Indeed, she always felt the need for a new museology oriented toward the needs of communities, especially marginalized ones, one that was capable of stimulating reflection on social priorities and creating “contact zones.”
She borrowed this image from the scientific world to describe how museums should become places where different cultures, histories, and perspectives meet and interact. Her constant commitment translated into a powerful tool for realizing opportunities for participation in cultural life, stimulating creative interaction, and fostering profound exchange, thereby promoting the building of significant bridges between diversity and knowledge. These values reflect the very essence of ECCOM’s mission.
Elisabetta Falchetti was a colleague, a friend, an passionate scientist, and a scholar. Her love for books and her ability to get to the bottom of everything, both in theory and practice, allowed her to move beyond classic research areas to develop innovative tools that would improve the cultural life (and thus life tout court) of everyone, promoting action-research.
Elisabetta Falchetti è stata una collega, un’amica, una scienziata e studiosa appassionata. Il suo amore per i libri e la sua capacità di andare a fondo di ogni cosa, nella teoria e nella pratica, le permetteva di superare gli ambiti classici della ricerca, per sviluppare strumenti innovativi che migliorassero la vita culturale (e quindi la vita tout court) di tutti promuovendo la ricerca-azione.
Titles You Can Find
The book collection reflects not only ECCOM’s objectives but, above all, its history and the plurality of themes it addresses and has addressed; ranging from legislation to the political and scientific debate on the enhancement of cultural heritage, to Italian and international reflections on the function of culture and cultural institutions.
The catalog’s structure is based on the subjects assigned to the books, which allow navigation in the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) and searching not only through basic keys (author, title, year, etc.) but also by subject.
You can find the sector categories: cultural economics and management, training and the labor market, heritage education, cultural participation, cultural legislation, audiovisual and cinema, publishing, archaeology, art, architecture and monuments, cultural heritage, landscape, museums, tourism, cultural policies, and theatre. Some volumes focus on themes such as: audience engagement and audience development, accessibility, plural narratives, interculturalism, post-colonialism, art, and community.
How to Borrow a Book
Through the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue), it is possible to find out which volumes are stored. The CEDEF will be open to the public on Friday afternoons, and consultation will only be possible by appointment, by sending a request to this email address: [email protected]
The center is managed by Claudia De Simone. A librarian and archivist, she has worked at the Como Archdiocesan Library and managed private book collections, in addition to having contributed to the design of the textile documentation center at the Como Silk Museum.
Titles You Can Find
The book collection reflects not only ECCOM’s objectives but, above all, its history and the plurality of themes it addresses and has addressed; ranging from legislation to the political and scientific debate on the enhancement of cultural heritage, to Italian and international reflections on the function of culture and cultural institutions.
The catalog’s structure is based on the subjects assigned to the books, which allow navigation in the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) and searching not only through basic keys (author, title, year, etc.) but also by subject.
You can find the sector categories: cultural economics and management, training and the labor market, heritage education, cultural participation, cultural legislation, audiovisual and cinema, publishing, archaeology, art, architecture and monuments, cultural heritage, landscape, museums, tourism, cultural policies, and theatre. Some volumes focus on themes such as: audience engagement and audience development, accessibility, plural narratives, interculturalism, post-colonialism, art, and community.
How to Borrow a Book
Through the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue), it is possible to find out which volumes are stored. The CEDEF will be open to the public on Friday afternoons, and consultation will only be possible by appointment, by sending a request to this email address: [email protected]
The center is managed by Claudia De Simone. A librarian and archivist, she has worked at the Como Archdiocesan Library and managed private book collections, in addition to having contributed to the design of the textile documentation center at the Como Silk Museum.
To begin the search:
To begin the search:
