Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
A broadcast was more than the sum of its programmes: advertisements, transitions and context made up a flow that is difficult to preserve. Cases from Argentina and Colombia show how technology, archival choices and preservation conditions shape what can be known about television history.
Open storyTurin's National Automobile Museum does not merely display cars: it builds its narrative through documents, social contexts and conservation practices that link technology with twentieth-century life.
Open storySketches, posters and other records help reconstruct how objects and performances were designed and circulated. The Valencian design archive and the advertising collection associated with ventriloquists Balder and Sanz show why cataloguing and preservation also shape cultural memory.
Open storyHow can museums preserve recent materials without separating them from the conditions that give them meaning? Research on contemporary art collections, storage spaces, digital archives and sustainability shows why preservation must account for objects as well as their social, institutional and material contexts.
Open storyThe Famicom and NES belonged to the same hardware lineage, yet their shells, controllers and cartridges reflected different contexts. Their differences show how physical design and commercial strategy shaped two regional versions of one platform.
Open storyBuilt by SIAM under BMC licence from 1960, the Di Tella 1500 joined a British platform to Argentine industrial ambition. Its rapid expansion, prominence as a taxi, and eventual transfer to IKA reveal both the reach and the strains of the venture.
Open storyTelevision aired as a flow of programmes, adverts and continuity, yet archives often preserve isolated fragments. Cases from Argentina and Colombia show how technology, broadcasters’ decisions and heritage choices shape what can be reconstructed about the screen and its context.
Open storyFounded in 1950 with the state as majority shareholder and Fiat as its technical partner, SEAT was created to expand car manufacturing in Spain. The 600 broadened access to motoring; later, the break with Fiat, Volkswagen’s arrival and the gradual shift from Zona Franca to Martorell reshaped the company without erasing its industrial roots in Barcelona.
Open storyTamagotchi, stickers and purikura can prompt memories—or feel entirely new. Reissues preserve recognisable forms and gestures, but also change how objects are used, accessed and shared, and who discovers them.
Open storyThe shift from 78 rpm records to the LP and the 45 rpm single was more than a change of material: speed, groove and size shaped playing time and the way albums and songs were released.
Open storyRetro design can quote the past without being a historical object or a faithful replica. Distinguishing provenance, materials, and uses helps show what a reinterpretation retains and what new meanings it takes on.
Open storyBetween 1910 and 1931, magazines such as El Gráfico, Cromos and Universidad made room for artists, caricaturists and photographers in a country whose press was deeply shaped by politics. Their pages did more than record events: through covers, portraits, caricatures and photographs, they offered ways of seeing Colombian society without becoming comics built on sequential storytelling.
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