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Heritage Landscapes vol.50

Heritage Landscapes is the Promemoria Group newsletter created to observe the contemporary heritage landscape. Twice a month we share the most interesting news and the most innovative projects, investigating those archival stories that turn an object, a brand or an insight, into a legend.

Between architecture, design, fashion, food, technology. With no limit to our curiosity.

1. The Long View

WalkmanLand
A website that pays tribute to the iconic cassette-based portable devices of the 1980s and 1990s: the Walkman, a true symbol of analog music and one of the devices that changed the way we listen to music and enjoy our free time. WalkmanLand was created with the goal of compiling all commercial models into a single catalog, building the most comprehensive database and making it accessible to everyone.
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WalkmanLand
The project is a platform driven by the passion of technology enthusiasts, with no commercial goals or ties to manufacturers, and aims to be as impartial as possible. Using the advanced search function, you can filter by features such as radio, metal casing, remote control, recording capability, color, and year of purchase.

More than just a catalog, WalkmanLand is a digital archive that preserves the history of music and technology, bringing back memories and stories from an era that shaped generations.

2. Augmented Craft

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Radio Garden

Radio Garden is an archive that transforms listening to the radio into a universal experience: originally conceived as a European digital research project developed between 2013 and 2016, it allows users to navigate an interactive 3D globe, making it possible to tune in to live stations from any city in the world. It is a technologically innovative collection in the way its content is presented; in fact, real-time streaming and a fluid visual interface make exploration intuitive and enjoyable. The project reinvents the concept of an audio archive as an exploratory space, where data and maps merge into a unique experience, creating a living, spectacular archive that is immediately accessible via browser or mobile device.

3. Seen & Noted

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Dive In
Ettore Sottsass Exhibition
The exhibition "I Am an Architect. Ettore Sottsass" at Palazzo Buontalenti traces thirty years of experimentation across architecture, design, and art, highlighting his sensitive and visionary approach to objects and spaces. The exhibition is based on the valuable collection entrusted by Sottsass to the CSAC in Parma, supplemented by public and private archives, demonstrating their value in preserving cultural and design heritage. Through drawings, projects, and original materials, the exhibition captures the complexity of a master who transformed everyday life into an emotional and visual experience.
Credits: WalkmanLand, Radio Garden, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (Csac)-Università degli Studi di Parma © Ettore Sottsass, by Siae 2026.
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“We always say, ‘Ours is a family business,’ but not because it’s run by a family, but because it’s run like a family, where people, the family members, are the most important thing.”

- Andrea Chiesi, Board Member and Head of Special Projects at Chiesi Group

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Promemoria Group

Since 2011, Promemoria Group has been the leading authority in the world of heritage, historical archives, and their valorization. We recover, preserve, and organize the history of over 250 major companies and institutions, while also storytelling and unlocking its value in every way possible. We are humanists with a passion for science and scientists with a humanistic spirit: a strategic partner that transforms heritage into a living asset, bridging roots and vision, past and future.

Our uniqueness lies in the integration of three dimensions: consulting, methodology, and a digital platform. We work alongside top management to define heritage strategies aligned with business objectives, translating the analysis of historical assets into guidelines, governance models, and concrete paths for valorization. Our proprietary method, Memories, combines scientific rigor, cultural vision, and organizational capacity, structuring complex tangible and intangible assets in a solid, orderly, and scalable way. Simultaneously, our digital platform ARCHIVIO.COM makes archives accessible, searchable, and strategically usable, transforming memory into an operational tool for communication, marketing, innovation, and decision-making.

ARCHIVIO, Archivissima, and Legend are the ways Promemoria Group valorizes heritage, showcasing the extraordinary content of archives through a contemporary lens—whether through a magazine that changes its editorial team every four issues, a national festival with a format unique in Europe, or a B2B event that explores how a brand can transcend time and become a legend.