Marta Masé and Isabella Scaramuzzi's patecipation to the Conference
HERITAGE MUSEUM FOR A CITY
May 25-28, 2007 - Settimo Torinese (TO)
The province of Venice has undertaken an active research program to preserve the historical heritage of Porto Marghera and to find a way to exploit
the industrial plants still active along the coastline. The aim is to activate museum systems that, apart from preserving, collecting and displaying manufactured products, machinery,
documents, archives and objects, will help us to build the future. This is our conceptual challange.
People could ask: Why should we create a museum in Marghera, a city that is still alive? The idea of the museum as a "place for dead objects" has to be overcome, especially for Venice, a city with its split personally
of museum-city and modern city.
COSES has begun an active-research project, staring from the present lack of a physical place where Marghera's artefacts can be collected together, and then identifying the "best practice"
to make the physical areas useable through:
By mapping different aspects (owners/objects and location) a concrete project for tourists' visits can be built up: developing the potential af Porto Marghera though virtual and real routes, physical locations and a website that makes all the resources accessible and at the same time works as an archive for ideas, expreiences and stories about Marghera. It could be seen as a mix of heritage museum and online-museum or virtual community and urban center.
| The Foundation Esperienze di Cultura Metropolitana (which promotes historical and cultural activities in the city)
and the Settimo Torinese City Council, in collaboration with the Laboratorio Ecomusei della Regione Piemonte, have been involved in a unique experience of recovery and development of cultural memory and awareness in the city of Settimo Torninese (TO). Though this conference they hopes to open up a debate about the many issues relating to heritage and collective memory.
M. Masé and Isabella Scaramuzzi's slide presentation to the conference is available for the download |
COSES Document n. 882/07 by I. Scaramuzzi, M. Masé;.
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