The Casa della Memoria will utilize the full potential of new technologies without detracting from what has been acquired over the course of history. It will house the material archives of historical institutions with the mission of documenting the last century of the city of Milan. At the same time, it will grow from its trunk of paper files into a new digital repository, propagating knowledge further afield. “Augmented Reality” is one of the most innovative inventions of the digital revolution: allowing you to project the knowledge accumulated in the digital archives of the past on the physical reality of the present. Like a magic lantern, the Casa della Memoria will cast pictures of the past on the places where the events transpired. The past is not destroyed, but saved and made visible.
- CREDITS Carlo Ratti, Samuel Colle Dominguez Maldonado (project leader), Giovanni de Niederhäusern, Andrea Galanti, Kristina Drapic, Alberto Bottero, Andrea Cassi, Pietro Leoni, Jennifer Young Consultants Marco Santambrogio, Carlo Miccono, Flavio Pollano, Paolo Vigone