Curated Memories

#47 / 2025 / Venezia

For the second time, I've learned something from G.A. (and his team)

Armani / Archivio

#46 / 2025 / Chiappera / Val Maira

Returning to my childhood summers, 1661 meters high — with the next generation

Chiappera

#45 / 2025 / Barcelona

Barcelona: the city where the three of us will live in 15 years

Barcelona

#44 / 2025 / Tribeca / New York

Which is it: life influencing work, or work influencing life?

Meeting the Yurmans

#43 / 2024 / Torino

In the age of parenthood

So this is Christmas

#42 / 2024 / Venezia

Some connections are just so natural but unlikely watch

Canal Grande

#41 / 2024 / Boa Vista / Capo Verde

Can't remember why we used to say 'quaraaaanta' — but it was a great beginning for a new decade

Celeste & I in Boa Vista

#40 / 2024 / Georgia / USA / SCAD University

Double Feature: Savannah and (I still can't pronounce) Atlanta

Savannah, Luca M. and his son

#39 / 2024 / Williamsburg / New York

The first night felt like a scene from a classic New York TV series

Williamsburg, NYC

#38 / 2023 / Torino / Legend by Promemoria

Michele De Lucchi said: ideas are mosquitoes

Michele De Lucchi & I

#37 / 2023 / Lacoste / France / SCAD Univesity

Of the many lectures in recent years, this one should be remembered

My Lecture at SCAD

#36 / 2023 / Paris

To think of beauty as the expression of continuity

My family in Paris

#35 / 2023 / Torino

Archivio magazine from scratch: round three external link

Archivio #9

#34 / 2023 / Madrid

Let's all travel together again

Family trip in Madrid

#33 / 2022 / Venezia / IUAV

A Friday lecture was the occasion for our very first family trip

Family trip in Venice

#32 / 2022 / Milano / FontanaArte

Writing a video to show our vision about making digital archives watch

FontanaArte Archive Video

#31 / 2021 / Torino / Legend by Promemoria

Legendary by Design: why does history still matter? read

Talk at Nuvola Lavazza

#30 / 2021 / Torino

Adulthood, vol 2: Celeste will change so much

Celeste

#29 / 2021 / Milano

A letter from G.A.

The letter

#28 / 2020 / Torino

Archivio magazine from scratch: round two external link

Archivio #5

#27 / 2020 / Torino

An atypical COO for a one-of-a-kind company: Promemoria external link

Promemoria Group Entrance

#26 / 2019 / Berlin

It was not a matter of course that we would return home

My syblings and I

#25 / 2019 / Torino

Adulthood, vol 1: buying a home

Our desk at the new home

#24 / 2019 / Milano / Bordeaux / Poitou-Charentes

Our final takeoff from Milan

Our favorite bed and breakfast

#23 / 2018 / Torino

Plot twist! Meet Promemoria and discover the potential of digital archives watch

A gif of a kid studying

#22 / 2017 / Milano

The first time I read “The Corrections”

A breakfast table with books

#21 / 2016 / Nantes / Bretagne

An unforgettable morning in front of the ocean

A view of a hill and the ocean in the morning from the windows of an home

#20 / 2016 / Nancy Scheper-Hughes

My favorite cultural anthropology definition read

A picture of an hairdresser window I took at Istanbul

#19 / 2015 / Milano

Plot twist! Being an editor in the dawn of content marketing read

My Menu chair

#18 / 2014 / Nowhere

Commuting: the sunrise outside the train window changes place every day

Grass fields and some trees outside a train window

#17 / 2013 / Bologna

April 10th, the day I got my doctorate in Cultural Anthropology

Notebooks from my fieldworks

#16 / 2013 / Istanbul / London + New York / Routledge

Assume that there is a kind of Promised Land Syndrome read

Poussin, The Spies with the Grapes of the Promised Land, 1664

#15 / 2012 / Izmir / Bruxelles / Ljubljana / Urban Planning Institute Press

A Kiosk for the Headscarf in a civil society reclaiming public space read

A card with the longest word in turkish: demokratiklestirebilmek, to be able to democratize

#14 / 2011 / Igdir

A sign at the foot of Mt Ararat: “do not travel this road after dark“

A space view of the Mount Ararat region

#13 / 2011 / Istanbul

Crossing the Bosphorus every single morning

A Bosphorus view from a boat at the dawn

#12 / 2010 / Aosta / Bologna / Thomas Pynchon

“Every dog has its day but a good dog just might have two days“

A dog in a grass field

#11 / 2009 / Bologna

The city where I understood the cinema

A view of the two central ancient tower of Bologna

#10 / 2008 / Chia

This place means something to us

A bar on a beach at the dawn

#9 / 2008 / Bologna

Sesto Senso, where it all began

A picture of a friend, his name is Edo

#8 / 2007 / Los Angeles

My memorable Marlowe night in L.A.

A picture of Malibu beaches at the dawn

#7 / 2007 / San Francisco

A Regatta and a chopper ride in the Bay Area

A gif of my friend Michele and me riding a chopper around Napa Valley

#6 / 2006 / Aix-en-Provence

It is easy to feel like Cezanne in this sunlight

Aix en Provence city market

#5 / 2004 / Bologna

A Contemporary History college course that I will mention many times

Bologna during a big snowfall

#4 / 2004 / Barcelona

A week's journey became three unforgettable months as a waiter

Barcelona from Montjuic telepherique roof

#3 / 2003/ Roma

Moving in Rome (was not that easy)

An old map of Rome

#2 / 2002 / London

First time abroad with friends, we got lost

A street performer balancing on a ladder in Covent Garden

#1 / 1984 / Cuneo

Hello world!

Me at my 2 years' old birthday party

This website is personal, with moderate ambitions. A few notes on how it was made. The font is the open-source IBM Plex Sans. Image credits go to SCAD University (#39), MyVisto (#37), Promemoria (#31), Ulaş Uğur (#15), and the 2011 Expedition 28 crew on the ISS (#14). The portraits in #19 are by the 2016 creative team at Lovethesign. I'm still trying to find the author of #23. I wrote the text, took the other photos, and coded the site with a lot of help from Codepal, a generative AI. It raises an interesting question about creative rights and collaboration in the age of AI. In my opinion, as technology evolves, the simple acts of reading books, viewing art, and enjoying poetry will become even more valuable—the revenge of 'otium' many of us have been waiting for. read more

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