Heritage Landscapes vol.30

First appearing in the early 1960s, audiocassettes took about a decade to conquer the market, revolutionizing the lives of many music lovers and making on-the-go song listening, collecting and exchanging personalized listening experiences accessible.

By the 1980s, cassettes had become a real household necessity, entering people's daily lives, who began to develop preferences for different brands on the market, including Philips, Fuji, Sony, Scotch, and many others.

Hence Oliver Gelbrich's idea to build a digital archive that would collect a wide range of original audiocassettes, giving the site visitor the opportunity to be able to browse catalogs by brand, durability, color, or tape coating, which could be chrome, iron, ferrochrome, and metal.

The ever-expanding collection showcases the heterogeneity of this product, which reflects the fashions of the time in its designs; from the more basic and functional designs of the 1960s, to the more colorful and flamboyant designs of later decades.

Born in 1955 in Naples, thanks to an intuition of Count Ermelino Matarazzo di Licosa, Fanta, one of the best-known brands of The Coca-Cola Company, has always maintained a worldwide resonance but an all-Italian soul.
Even today, in the seven italian factories, production uses only Italian citrus fruits, particularly from Calabria and Sicily, where Fanta has developed a path of sustainability and innovation of the citrus supply chain.

From Friday, January 31 to Sunday, May 18, the National Automobile Museum in Turin is hosting the exhibition C/ART. The art of playing with the automobile, created by contemporary artist Robert Kuśmirowski and curated by Guido Costa and Davide Lorenzone. An environmental installation that recreates a workshop crowded with models ranging from the 19th to the 20th century from various Italian collections and museums, the aim of which is to encourage visitors to reflect on the affective value of objects and investigate the relationship between art and historical automotive memory.

A new space has recently opened in Via Lomazzo 19, Milan, in the heart of Chinatown, where culture and fashion meet, intertwine and influence each other. It is called Circolo Ultrafiorucci and very soon it will open to host, in addition to exhibitions and displays, events dedicated to music and nightlife.
Inaugurated by Thomas Jeppe's recently concluded immersive exhibition Market, the Circolo, as stated by the brand's CEO Alessandro Pisani, will not be a space dedicated to telling the story of the brand, but will host the works of artists who share its values.

Credits: Tapedeck.org, Coca-Cola Italia, Economy Magazine, Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, The Spinoff, t space studio, Fiorucci.

ARCHIVI.A., the panel that was held at the Polo del '900 during Archivissima, was a key moment to share the results of our research on artificial intelligence and discuss future challenges. For more than 15 years, under the leadership of our founders Andrea Montorio and Gisella Riva, we have been working to innovate the world of archives, integrating technology and artificial intelligence with the aim of protecting and enhancing historical heritage.

This path of evolution today takes shape with archivio.com, a platform designed to transform archives into a strategic asset, offering advanced solutions for the preservation and enjoyment of content over time.

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