CHAIA promotes the intersection between historical research, contemporary artistic practices, heritage studies, landscape, and visual culture, encouraging innovative and collaborative approaches. Through research, advanced training, artistic creation, and knowledge transfer to society, the center establishes itself as a space for critical experimentation, interdisciplinary dialogue, and cultural intervention with national and international projection. CHAIA houses doctoral programs in Archaeology, Architecture, Arts and Techniques of Landscape, and Art History.
CHAIA’s mission is to promote and support scientific and artistic research projects and critical reflection in the fields of Art History, Archaeology, Architecture, Landscape, Theatre, Visual Arts, and Design. CHAIA encourages the training of future researchers, fostering the involvement of undergraduate students, doctoral candidates, and postdoctoral fellows in its activities.
It is also CHAIA’s mission to promote the dissemination of project results through scientific meetings, colloquia and congresses, scientific publications and other reference publications, as well as other forms of dissemination specific to the field of Arts. It promotes the development and scientific exchange of artistic research between individuals and international and national institutions.