Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
Streets and squares can be read as settings for sociability, exchange and the circulation of information. Reconstructing their history, however, means attending to what documents reveal—and what they leave out—about different groups’ experiences.
Open storyPhotography and video present a product in different ways. Their documented uses show how launch communication is organized, but do not by themselves establish commercial success.
Open storyBeyond aesthetics, Lorenzo Caprile's atelier operates as a living archive. His trajectory allows examining fashion not as a static object, but as a social practice that records recent Spanish identity through technical precision and tailoring history.
Open storyAnalyzes how the technical infrastructure of Internet between 1970 and 2009 was built before its mass adoption, distinguishing documented milestones from popular memory.
Open storyAnalyzes how sticker albums, when moving from the domestic sphere to the institutional one, transform into historical sources. It examines the limitations of digital catalogs and visual documentation in identifying variants, highlighting that conservation does not always guarantee an understanding of the original cultural context.
Open storyAnalysis of how chromolithographed boxes of biscuits and sweets, preserved in museums such as the Madrid Museum of History, function as documents that separate commercial promotion from domestic practice.
Open storyExplores how archives transform obsolete devices into historical documents, analyzing the tension between their original function and heritage value in museums and libraries.
Open storyExplores how sticker albums transition from toys to historical documents, analyzing conservation challenges and museum management of these ephemeral objects.
Open storyAnalysis of how the introduction of home video in the 80s and 90s redefined the relationship between photography and movement, using evidence from archives and academic studies on the temporal factor.
Open storyExplores how archives and museums preserve cinema history through objects, documents, and contexts, beyond the simple projection of films.
Open storyAnalyzes how preservation conditions and archival management transform the perception of comic magazines, shifting them from consumer objects to cultural documents that require specific context to be understood.
Open storyAnalyzes how plain text editors and their file formats defined information preservation in the digital era, distinguishing them from proprietary word processors.
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