Post-pandemic transformation
A collection of research studies highlights the themes around which we should build a new way of working and living
How has the world changed after the COVID-19 pandemic? Not a preposterous, but a necessary question, one that the research studies and contributions presented at the Trento Family Festival, now collected into a volume entitled La “società” trasformata: verso un’economia della sostenibilità? Sfide e opportunità dopo la pandemia da Covid-19 (A “society” transformed: move towards a sustainable economy? Challenges and opportunities after the COVID-19 pandemic), try to answer. Luciano Malfer and Ilaria Antonini, who curated the anthology, have collected investigations concerning economy, family, sustainability post-pandemic: all themes that were central to the Festival’s debate.
“Cosa ci insegna una pandemia. Sfide per una nuova sostenibilità sociale” (“What can a pandemic teach us. Challenges for a new social sustainability”) was the first topic discussed, before further exploring a few other particular issues such as remote working; the need to create “family networks”; the relationships between family, school and territory; the “challenges” for the future, which comprise women’s employment, the presence and role of the elderly and the theme of disability. The work then moves on to investigate wider subjects, such as the transformation of living and working places, matters related to demographics and new territorial networks. What emerges is a vast and complex picture that comprises several aspects of social life.
“In the coming years,” write Vera and Stefano Zamagni in one of the studies, “the commitment of public authorities, entrepreneurship and trade unions to address the support needed by families will become evident, if not through shared inherent values then through the ability to minimise the most negative effects of its fragility: falling birth rates, young people’s educational shortcomings, the impoverishment of separated couples and the tremendous growth in costs for elderly care. But, above all, we will be able to see the cultural and organisational changes that civil society will put in place, as, in the end, social transformation is part of responsible citizenship, and it is down to citizens to recognise which institutions and policies can increase their happiness.”
This collection of studies assembled and selected by Malfer and Antonini acts as a great manual on an extremely complex theme that spans all the countless implications affecting the culture of both society and production.
La “società” trasformata: verso un’economia della sostenibilità? Sfide e opportunità dopo la pandemia da Covid-19 (A “society” transformed: move towards a sustainable economy? Challenges and opportunities after the COVID-19 pandemic)
Luciano Malfer and Ilaria Antonini (curated by)
Proceedings of the 2020 Trento Family Festival
A collection of research studies highlights the themes around which we should build a new way of working and living
How has the world changed after the COVID-19 pandemic? Not a preposterous, but a necessary question, one that the research studies and contributions presented at the Trento Family Festival, now collected into a volume entitled La “società” trasformata: verso un’economia della sostenibilità? Sfide e opportunità dopo la pandemia da Covid-19 (A “society” transformed: move towards a sustainable economy? Challenges and opportunities after the COVID-19 pandemic), try to answer. Luciano Malfer and Ilaria Antonini, who curated the anthology, have collected investigations concerning economy, family, sustainability post-pandemic: all themes that were central to the Festival’s debate.
“Cosa ci insegna una pandemia. Sfide per una nuova sostenibilità sociale” (“What can a pandemic teach us. Challenges for a new social sustainability”) was the first topic discussed, before further exploring a few other particular issues such as remote working; the need to create “family networks”; the relationships between family, school and territory; the “challenges” for the future, which comprise women’s employment, the presence and role of the elderly and the theme of disability. The work then moves on to investigate wider subjects, such as the transformation of living and working places, matters related to demographics and new territorial networks. What emerges is a vast and complex picture that comprises several aspects of social life.
“In the coming years,” write Vera and Stefano Zamagni in one of the studies, “the commitment of public authorities, entrepreneurship and trade unions to address the support needed by families will become evident, if not through shared inherent values then through the ability to minimise the most negative effects of its fragility: falling birth rates, young people’s educational shortcomings, the impoverishment of separated couples and the tremendous growth in costs for elderly care. But, above all, we will be able to see the cultural and organisational changes that civil society will put in place, as, in the end, social transformation is part of responsible citizenship, and it is down to citizens to recognise which institutions and policies can increase their happiness.”
This collection of studies assembled and selected by Malfer and Antonini acts as a great manual on an extremely complex theme that spans all the countless implications affecting the culture of both society and production.
La “società” trasformata: verso un’economia della sostenibilità? Sfide e opportunità dopo la pandemia da Covid-19 (A “society” transformed: move towards a sustainable economy? Challenges and opportunities after the COVID-19 pandemic)
Luciano Malfer and Ilaria Antonini (curated by)
Proceedings of the 2020 Trento Family Festival