Sustainable Musicology is a theoretical project developed by Marco Bizzarini, aimed at redefining the methods, purposes, and responsibility of musicological knowledge in the contemporary world.
In an age marked by an ever-growing production of academic content, the question is not only how much knowledge is produced, but how much of it remains readable, transmissible, and meaningful over time.
Sustainability, in this context, is not a property of content, but of the conditions that make knowledge readable, transmissible, and durable over time.
Sustainable Musicology therefore proposes a shift of paradigm: from quantity to duration, from accumulation to selection, from discursive proliferation to critical coherence.
In this project, sustainability is not understood in an environmental sense, but in an epistemological one. It refers to the capacity of musicological knowledge to preserve internal consistency, readability, and intellectual responsibility.
The project is presented in the book Musicologia sostenibile. Un cambio di paradigma negli studi umanistici, available in open access, and is further developed through this website Sustainable Musicology and a series of related articles and essays.