The TIVAL project: Integrating multidisciplinary perspectives

This paper presents the main tenets underlying the TIVAL project and the goals it aims to achieve. TIVAL takes as object of study one of the main representatives of the cultural heritage in Lombardia: the Certosa di Pavia. The project team is composed of experts in many disciplines that are involved in cultural heritage studies, conservation and valorization. Hence TIVAL takes as it primary driver the integration of multidisciplinary perspectives as a fundamental means to build new knowledge on the object of interest; but also to define an approach that is defined out of a specific collective experience. This approach could be fruitfully taken in other similar situations to overcome the fragmentation of the actions and outcomes that often characterizes the study, conservation and valorization of the cultural heritage patrimony.