We are a simple limited liability company registered at the Italian Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Handicrafts and Agriculture, office of Bologna.
REA number: BO-548412
Fiscal code/VAT number: IT03815651207
Our Founder and Sole Director Dr Luisa Bravo established this company in 2019.
During her PhD studies at the University of Bologna, Dr Luisa Bravo developed the concept of Genius Saeculi related to sustainable urban development, as opposed to Genius Loci defined by Norwegian architectural theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz. She presented her research at the 14th International Planning History Society Conference in Istanbul in 2010 with a paper entitled “Genius Loci and Genius Saeculi: A Sustainable Way to Understand Contemporary Urban Dynamics”. The paper was published in the conference proceedings.
Genius Saeculi, the Spirit of Time, is linked to the use of Digital Technologies to redefine the Humanities through transdisciplinary collaboration.
Dr Luisa Bravo
According to Johanna Drucker (2013), the term “Humanities” was first used in the Renaissance by Italian scholars involved in the study (and recovery) of works of classical antiquity. The term emphasizes the shift from a medieval theo-centric world-view, to one in which “man is the measure of all things.” The humanities are the disciplines that focus on the arts, literature, music, dance, theater, architecture, philosophy, and other expressions of human culture.
According to Anne Burdick et al. (MIT Press, 2012), Digital Humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the humanities disciplines. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. DH can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged research, teaching, and publishing. It brings digital tools and methods to the study of the humanities with the recognition that the printed word is no longer the main medium for knowledge production and distribution.