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Heritage Landscapes vol.58

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

The Charm of a Well-Worn Notebook
What can an old school notebook tell us? Much more than you might imagine. The Exercise Book Archive is a participatory archive that collects and preserves notebooks, diaries, and letters written by children and young people from the late 18th century to the early 2000s.

With hundreds of documents from over 30 countries, the project offers a unique glimpse into daily life, education, and the experience of childhood across the ages. Managed by the Milan-based association Quaderni Aperti, the archive grows thanks to the contributions of those who choose to donate materials or help with their transcription and translation.
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Exercise Book Archive
Through digitization efforts, exhibitions, seminars, and outreach initiatives, these testimonies are brought back to life, becoming a valuable tool not only for understanding the past but also for stimulating contemporary reflection on educational models and the relationship between adults and children, opening the debate to contributions from teachers, educators, pedagogues, and historians, as well as artists, writers, intellectuals, and interested citizens.

2. Augmented Craft

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Explore
Your Name In Landsat

For over fifty years, the Landsat program of NASA and the USGS has been documenting changes to the Earth’s surface, creating the largest continuous archive of images of our planet. To celebrate Earth Day 2026, the project launched “Your Name in Landsat,” a generator that transforms names and words into compositions created using real satellite images of rivers, lakes, farmland, and other landscapes viewed from space. It’s a creative way to explore a unique treasure trove of data that chronicles how the Earth’s surface has changed over time.

3. Seen & Noted

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Dive In
A Major Exhibition for Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Centennial

For the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, 2026 is a year of celebrations: exhibitions, research projects, and cultural events mark the centennial of the artist’s birth. Among the main events is the retrospective *Arnaldo Pomodoro: A Life*, on view at the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan through October 18, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and Federico Giani.
For the occasion, the Foundation has digitized and made available for free in its online archive the entire photographic documentation of the sculptures, offering insight into the technical and creative process that precedes the finished work. In addition, the registration of the Catalogue Raisonné on the blockchain has begun to ensure data integrity and due diligence, using SwissLedger, the public blockchain promoted by the city of Lugano: this marks the first application of this technology to the protection and promotion of contemporary art.
Credits: Exercise Book Archive, Nasa, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro.
LEGEND24
“When you acquire a company, you don’t just acquire the company—you acquire responsibility for that company. So that responsibility involves understanding where that company comes from, what its history is, and what its assets are. Physical assets, but also intangible assets: the brand, the positioning, and the culture of that company.”

- Gianluca Colonna, Chief Executive Officer of Rosenthal and Board Member of Arcturus

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Pour suivre nos initiatives, découvrir des études de cas, des innovations, des projets, des publications et bien plus encore. Pour comprendre comment les archives peuvent devenir des outils compétitifs capables de transformer le passé en une ressource extraordinaire pour le présent.

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Depuis 2011, Promemoria Group est l'autorité de référence dans l'univers du patrimoine, des archives historiques et de leur valorisation. Nous recueillons, préservons et organisons l'histoire de plus de 250 grandes entreprises et institutions, tout en assurant sa narration et en libérant sa valeur par tous les moyens possibles. Nous sommes des humanistes passionnés de science et des scientifiques dotés d'un esprit humaniste: un partenaire stratégique qui transforme le patrimoine en un actif vivant, créant un pont tra racines et vision, tra passé et futur.

Notre unicité réside dans l’intégration de trois dimensions: le conseil, la méthodologie et une plateforme numérique. Nous travaillons aux côtés delle directions générales pour définir des stratégies patrimoniales alignées sulle objectifs commerciaux, en traduisant l’analyse des actifs historiques en lignes directrices, modèles de gouvernance et parcours concrets de valorisation.

Notre méthode propriétaire, Memories, allie rigueur scientifique, vision culturelle et capacité d’organisation, structurant les actifs complexes, matériels et immatériels, de manière solide, ordonnée et évolutive. Parallèlement, notre plateforme numérique ARCHIVIO.COM rend les archives accessibles, consultables et exploitables stratégiquement, transformant la mémoire en un outil opérationnel pour la communication, le marketing, l’innovation et la prise de décision.

ARCHIVIO, Archivissima et Legend sont les vecteurs par lesquels Promemoria Group valorise le patrimoine, mettant en lumière le contenu extraordinaire des archives à travers un prisme contemporain — qu’il s’agisse d’un magazine qui renouvelle son équipe éditoriale tous les quatre numéros, d’un festival national au format unique en Europe, ou d’un événement B2B qui explore comment une marque peut transcender le temps pour devenir une légende.