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Heritage Landscapes vol.60

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 History of Technology on a Map
How can we tell the story of thousands of years of innovation without limiting ourselves to a simple timeline? This is the challenge taken on by Étienne Fortier-Dubois with The Historical Tech Tree, a project that visualizes the evolution of technologies, inventions, and major discoveries, from prehistory to the present day.
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The Historical Tech Tree
What makes this initiative unique is its focus on the relationships between different innovations: each technology is linked to its predecessors, influences, and improvements that made its development possible. The result is a true network of knowledge that allows users to discover unexpected connections and better understand the complexity of technological progress.

Launched in 2025, the project already includes approximately 1,750 technologies and over 2,000 connections, all cataloged manually, and is now open to contributions from the community to continue expanding this extraordinary digital archive of the history of innovation—a history that has allowed us to be here today, reading a newsletter on our screens.

2. Augmented Craft

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Explore
MRI of the Earth

What would an MRI scan of the Earth look like? That is the question that inspired “MRI of the Earth,” a work by multimedia artist Refik Anadol, created in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture Lab. Using artificial intelligence algorithms and processing over 200 million images of the planet, the project transforms climate data, temperatures, CO₂ levels, and extreme weather events into an immersive visualization. It’s an example of how digital archives and AI can give shape to new visual languages, making complex issues like climate change more accessible to everyone.

3. Seen & Noted

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Dive In
Festivaletteratura: Thirty Years of Stories, Told in a Podcast

Once a year in Italy, poets, writers, intellectuals, and literature enthusiasts gather to discuss their greatest passion—literature—in the splendid setting of Mantua.
From the festival’s digital archive comes In trent’anni, a podcast produced by Festivaletteratura and written by Nicolò Porcelluzzi. Four episodes that explore what it means to talk about literature today, how the literary canon has changed, and the relationship between young people and reading. A journey through thirty years of voices and stories, made possible thanks to the support of MyNet. A highly successful example of how our technology can become a shared memory: enjoy the podcast!
Credits: Historical Tech Tree, Google Arts & Culture, Festivaletteratura.


LEGEND 23
“The archive is the tool that protects a company’s most important asset and provides strategies for business development.
Legend helps companies recognize the archive as a tool for preserving a brand’s know-how.”

- Andrea Montorio, CEO of Promemoria Group


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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.