A teaching experiment for Harvard University (2016).
Here’s the syllabus of the course “Italian 184: Storytelling and Innovation: The Narrative Foundations of the Creative Economy“.
The aim of this course is to explore recent literature that examines the origins of narrative and fiction from a bio-cultural point of view, taking into account recent findings in human evolution studies and evolutionary game theory. Starting from this literature, the course highlights the role of narrative and fiction in the social innovation and change phenomena, in the context of the emerging creative economy, with particular emphasis on the phenomenon of the creative city. Continue reading Invisible Cities: Evolutionary foundations of narrative and fiction, and their applications to social change, innovation, and the creative economy →