Director
Luigi Lafasciano is an archaeologist and anthropologist, musician and traveller. He has worked and journeyed through several Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Turkey, Greece, France, Spain, Italy), cultivating many interests in history, cultural anthropology, popular music and culture, and ancient and modern literature.
Luigi received a PhD degree at the University of Salerno and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (France) for his work on the influence of dream visions on the evolution of ancient Mediterranean cultures and the culturally determined construction of sacred and communal spaces. He published several papers and a book ("Archeologia del sogno rituale. Dall'arcaismo alla tarda antichità nel mondo greco-romano, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Rome 2021). His research interests include the role of Sensory Studies in contemporary education.
As Founder and Director of the Diakron Institute, he administrates the coordination of its projects and educational services and operates within his project teams as a historian and critic of modern cultural phenomena.
