ICA Roma: the trade show
Contemporary societies are characterized more than ever by their diversity: a multiplicity of communities, cultures, languages, institutions and technologies interrelate and interact in common spaces contributing to the conformation of a complex social fabric.
Bridging the gap between the global and the local, the public and the private, the centre and the periphery, the majority and the minority, duties and rights, high and low technology, to name a few, are the key to the development of a society where all the pieces and the actors that compose it coexist and prosper.
Archives play a fundamental role in this scenario, shaping and integrating the values of a society (in a word, its identity) in a dynamic way, not constituting themselves as mere passive containers of our memory, but rather as proactive entities that shape and shape it.
Therefore, they are a strategic factor in bridging differences. On the other hand, archives have to deal with internal gaps that affect their mission and hinder their use, in a world of constantly changing technologies, archives must redouble efforts to manage new objects, formats and techniques.