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The ethical debate behind conserving ephemeral art
Beyond technique, preserving unstable works forces institutions to negotiate cultural value against material integrity, redefining the archive's role in the present.
Design and the visual languages of everyday life
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1970s
The snack as cultural object: design, brand and table in the seventies
An analysis of how the industrialization of the snack transformed the relationship between consumer and light food, moving from a functional complement to a product with its own identity.
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The record that turns decoration into historical memory
Explores how museum and archive protocols transform domestic objects into primary sources through cultural contextualization and risk management.
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Museums, tables, and memory: the difficulty of exhibiting the intangible
The museumization of food culture clashes with the ephemeral nature of the gastronomic experience. We analyze how ethnographic museums attempt to preserve the sensory and social aspects of food beyond physical objects.
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The Domestic Archive: When Everyday Memory Becomes Heritage
Contemporary museology is redefining conservation by incorporating domestic objects and everyday practices, transforming personal memory into a corpus of collective identity.
1970s
The Decade of Positioning: How the Image Redefined the Brand in the 70s
An analysis of the 1970s advertising transition, where visual creativity replaced technical description to occupy a specific mental space in the consumer.
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Beyond the hardware: the complexity of preserving the gaming experience
Console preservation requires moving beyond physical custody to integrate software, peripherals, and social context, transforming the retro object into a cultural historical document.
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The living archive and the new life of the retro object
Beyond mere physical preservation, digitalization and institutional archives are redefining how we understand and access the cultural context of retro objects, transforming the inventory into a space of active interpretation.
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Beyond the object: the tension between aesthetics and function in design conservation
Graphic design is not just a visual piece, but a social document. We analyze how museums and archives manage the complexity of preserving its communicative function alongside its aesthetic value, using cases like the ventriloquism collection of Balder and Sanz.
1980s
The NES and the reconfiguration of home gaming
An analysis of how the Nintendo Entertainment System transformed the perception of video games through industrial design decisions and a game library that defined its place in 1980s domestic culture.
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The archive as context: beyond the inventory
Heritage documentation is not just an object record, but a tool to reconstruct the cultural and social context that gave them meaning, linking aesthetics with the history of use.
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The value of the domestic in collective memory
Explores how museum institutions are redefining heritage by incorporating everyday objects and testimonies, shifting the focus from major milestones to the lived experience of communities.
