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Locus is a journal published semiannual, based on the principles of free access. The publication's primary focus is on history, but it is open for relevant contributions from other Humanities areas as well. The journal's issues publish articles, with a wide chronological range. It may also include theoretical and/or methodological articles. The journal has the mission of promoting the enrichment of the academic debate, in addition to serving as a means of publication to a larger public. This is done through an anonymous and painstaking analysis, which will lead to neutral opinions and selection of high-quality materials on the topics.

The Faro Convention of the COE highlights the human centered theory in relation to the cultural heritage that he must pass on to future generations. Cultural heritage is a set of resources that contributes to the quality of life, social development, and sustainability of environmental programs. Each individual is responsible individually and as a community for cultural heritage and participates in its protection and enhancement. In this spirit, the university project OBVIA and extramann network has proceeded to create audience development and territorial networks for the MANN to achieve urban regeneration. The method identified through the OBVIA project can be replicated as a practice tested and evaluated in terms of social and economic impact.

Umanistica Digitale è la rivista in platinum open access dell’AIUCD (Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale).

The paper aims to examine the transformative role of art and artists, today and in the future. We have chosen as a starting point the work of a remarkable Portuguese sculptor at the leading edge: Rui Chafes, a challenger of new aesthetic paths. Chafes is a conceptual sculptor of iron and fire who seeks and aspires to abstractionism, as a novel language and a novel vision of the world. The artist thinks his work deeply, regularly publishing texts about his work and its connections with art, beauty and life. From his imaginary artistic biography, Between Heaven and Earth, a bit like Vasari’s The Lives, we will begin by presenting the sculptor’s aesthetic and plastic universe. Then we will consider the way his unique identity path turns out to be inspiring and fulfilling. This imaginary character, born in Germany in the 13th century, absorbed the spiritual medieval gothic shapes and the sense of nature, the sublime and the absolute spirit, peculiar to German Romanticism. From his long experience we highlight learning the value of life, and the love for here and now, both rooted in a density of experiences and memories; memories, places and times which interact and dialogue with his sculptures — works which cralise the spaces they inhabit as if they had always been part of them. For Rui Chafes the future of humankind depends on our ability to incorporate memory and the past into the present, and in this sense his project is a very original and promising alliance between tradition and modernity.