Memory and its Tomorrow

Often, in the aftermath of an intensive workshop experience such as MIAW, one wonders if the results have lived up to the program one has set, whether the work has been more or less useful to the students' growth and whether the setting of an intensive project succeeds in shifting the focus on such a fascinating topic as Memory. Archives of Memory could be that banner that, as a réclame, appears in the form of display advertising, "sudden pop-up to be clicked," during the buzzing navigation, on this one an unexpected world opens up, different corners of Milan, little known to most, that show repositories of memory that possess the value of a real museum: from that of the Archives of the City of Milan to the Triennale, from the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo to the Corriere della Sera, repositories dense with memory in which architecture offers itself as but mediator of a discovery of the city that is unprecedented, authentic, innovative. The intent of the work seemed to me exemplary in wanting to understand how this collective appropriation of an experience made within unseen places could generate new points of view on the city's history.