DFBC - Ca' Foscari University of Venice

The Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage (DFBC) of Ca' Foscari University of Venice was born in 2011 from the fusion of the Departments of Philosophy and Theory of Science and History and Criticism of the Arts. It is divided into 4 main research areas: philosophy, history of the arts, social sciences, educational sciences. The goal is the construction of critical, transversal and interdisciplinary knowledge, which daily engages with the tradition of philosophical studies; with the main outcomes of historical-artistic research understood as a scientific discipline, encompassing the various dimensions of visual arts, performing arts, and music, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era; with the most up-to-date pedagogical perspectives; and with the sweeping transformations of the society we live in. The DFBC is a place of research and international scope, with funded projects, with its own journals and archives, and it features study centers of consolidated importance.