Virtual Archive of Temporary Exhibitions: New scenarios for the documentation, storage and fruition of an “Ephemeral Memory”

The project “Virtual Archive of Temporary Exhibitions” deals with the development of an online archive able to document, preserve and make available digital materials related to the design of temporary exhibitions and cultural events. The project, in view of a renewed interest in the theme of “project´s archives”, focuses on Virtual Archives and Museums as fields of inquiry and application of Virtual´s potentialities in preserving and documenting the “memory of the Temporary”. Virtual Archives are also seen as paradigmatic “places” to verify design´s potentiality in terms of cultural heritage valorization and in terms of definition of new fruitive “intangible” scenarios.