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• sustainable development - sviluppo sostenibile
• ecosystems - ecosistemi
• change management - gestione del cambiamento
• communication - comunicazione
• aphorisms - aforisma
• human society and politics - società umana e politica

A Laboratory of Minorities - The territory of Ticino represents a form of cultural and linguistic minority within the Swiss Confederation: as the only officially monolingual Italian-speaking canton, it embodies a condition of being at the margins of the centre, where the dominant culture is often constructed through dialogue—or tension—with the German- and French-speaking regions.

• culture - cultura
• geography - geografia
• cultural heritage – patrimonio culturale
• human society and politics - società umana e politica
• 2025

Overtourism has become one of the most publicized issues in contemporary tourism debates in recent years, capturing the attention of international media, local administrations, and researchers. This phenomenon, known by different names since the 1960s, describes situations where the impact of tourism exceeds the sustainability thresholds of a destination. This article focuses on the conceptual evolution of the term - from its first academic formulations to its widespread media use—while examining the various manifestations of the phenomenon and its multidimensional impacts on affected destinations. Through a systemic approach, the text also explores the opposite phenomenon of undertourism, highlighting how the solution does not lie in limiting tourist flows but in managing them intelligently.

• travel & tourism - viaggi & turismo
• human society and politics - società umana e politica
• sustainable tourism - turismo sostenibile
• 2025

The world changes, this has always been the case, with or without human intervention. What is new in recent years is the frequency and intensity of such changes, marked by sudden leaps - or disruptive transformations - that reshape the socio-economic fabric at an increasingly rapid pace. Dubai is perhaps one of the cities that best embodies this acceleration: within just a few decades, a small trading settlement in the desert has emerged as a global metropolis oriented toward the future.

• sustainable development - sviluppo sostenibile
• human society and politics - società umana e politica
• future developments - sviluppi futuri
• artificial intelligence - intelligenza artificiale
• 2025

Cultural Observatories emerged in the late 1980s, gaining prominence over the last two decades. Initially inspired by Grenoble's Observatoire des politiques culturelles (1989) and Strasbourg's Observatoire européen de l'audiovisuel (1992), these observatories now number more than 100 across four continents, with a significant concentration in Europe. They vary in scope and focus, reflecting the diversity of cultural landscapes.

• culture - cultura
• public activities – attività pubbliche
• cultural heritage – patrimonio culturale
• 2024

The world changes; it always has, with or without human intervention. The novelty in recent years lies in the frequency, intensity, and those so-called leaps – or disruptive changes – that transform the socio-economic fabric at an ever-increasing pace. Sometimes these are caused by revolutionary technologies; at other times, they are the result of gradual maturation that does not attract public opinion's attention until they become too significant to go unnoticed. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is likely one of these latter cases. Ignored for several decades, it has now matured the necessary potential to manifest significant and growing impacts on human communities in the years to come.

• human society and politics - società umana e politica
• future developments - sviluppi futuri
• 2023
• artificial intelligence - intelligenza artificiale

At a quick and superficial reading, statistics and culture may seem like two separate realities that only interact under close supervision. To simplify, the cultured individual tends to stigmatize the false certainties hidden behind numbers, while the statistician perhaps looks with barely concealed annoyance at that galaxy of activities that escape easily definable metrics.

• statistics - statistica
• publications - pubblicazioni
• 2023