TrasiMemo è un progetto di “attivazione” delle memorie, di riconoscimento e di tutela dei patrimoni culturali di comunità, messi in valore grazie alla costruzione partecipata di un archivio virtuale e mediante alcune installazioni museali.

Il progetto contribuisce a restituire “risonanza” e “visibilità” ai saperi artigianali nella zona del lago Trasimeno; documenta le pratiche, i processi culturali e i contesti sociali legati alla loro fruizione collettiva, così da riconoscerne una pubblica funzione sociale.
È pensato per far parlare i saperi artigianali attraverso l’uso delle forme espositive che caratterizzano la museografia etnografica contemporanea: raccontare le persone, le loro storie, i loro mondi, lasciando alla materialità degli oggetti il ruolo di intermediario simbolico.

Le persone che hanno lavorato e che lavorano in questo territorio trovano così uno spazio dove raccontare le proprie vite di artigiani, di bricoleur, di hobbisti, di appassionati collezionisti, di restauratori, di artisti, di inventori e dove progettare future prospettive professionali.

TrasiMemo non vuole essere un deposito della memoria, ma uno spazio pubblico di coinvolgimento educativo, ludico e di dibattito, in cui residenti e visitatori possano riconoscersi e confrontarsi.
Un osservatorio privilegiato per l’apprendistato di sguardi competenti sui saperi artigianali del Trasimeno e sui processi di costruzione delle tradizioni ad essi connesse.

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Trasimemo is a memory activation project, established to recognise and protect the cultural heritage of the community. The project safeguards this heritage through the creation of a shared virtual archive together with museum installations.

The project contributes to restoring resonance and visibility to the knowledge of craftsmen and women in the Lake Trasimeno area. It documents the practices, the cultural processes and the social contexts of their collective activity, in order to more fully recognise their valuable social function.

Trasimemo was designed to allow the knowledge of the craftsmen and women to speak through the use of exhibition spaces inspired by contemporary ethnographic museums, telling the tales of the people, their lives, and their world, backed up by the solidity of the actual physical exhibits.

The people who have worked and who work in this territory thus find a space where they can tell the tales of their lives as craftsmen and women - blacksmiths, hobbyists, passionate collectors, restorers, artists, inventors, and so on - and where they can contemplate the future of their trades and crafts.

Trasimemo isn't simply a repository for memories. It aspires to be a dynamic public space for education, training and debate, where residents and visitors can get to know each other and exchange ideas.

It is hoped that the project will encourage apprenticeship, where a keen eye will be able to pick up on the knowledge built up by Trasimeno craftsmen and women over generations, by studying and practising their methods and techniques.

The exhibition

The exhibition evokes the feeling of an archive. However, visitors don't peruse documents or files, but stories and practices divided into four broad fields: iron and metals, wood, cotto, and fabrics.

Four display cabinets, one for each theme, face four large information panels, which function as guides to help visitors explore the archive.

The visitor is invited to use the exhibition to discover the layers of memory hidden in the tablets, in the drawers of the display cabinets, in the archive chest of drawers, in the writing on the walls...

Between the virtual content and the physical exhibits visitors can learn to recognise the signs of craftsmanship that characterise the surrounding landscape, and learn to appreciate its complexity and fragility.