Your memory is our history: recovery, digitalisation and dissemination of vernacular video production

In the process of empowerment of society, the search for innovative solutions to update and strengthen the relationship between communities and their cultural heritage - material and immaterial - and the territory is fundamental. From this perspective, the inclusive and participatory enhancement of cultural heritage and the experimentation of new models of communication and use can contribute both to strengthening the sense of place and to defining a heritage community. Since 2015, in Carbonia, in the Southern Sardinia region (Italy), the “Centro Servizi Culturali della Società Umanitaria - CSC” (i.e. Centre for Cultural Services of the Humanitarian Society) has started the project “Ex Dì Memorie in Movimento - La Fabbrica del Cinema” (i.e. Ex Dì Moving Memories - The Cinema Factory) aimed at preserving, collecting, promoting and post-producing the historical audiovisual memory of the territory. The working hypothesis is that small private stories can transform into public testimonies of the daily life of both the community and the nation. The recent collaboration between the CSC and the project “Reinventing Industrial Museums for a New Image of Italy - 2023-2025” (ReMusIt - Home, 2024), constitutes a further experimental activity. This study traces some of the most significant activities undertaken by the Sardinian Center and illustrates the hypotheses of collaborative work within the ReMusIt project. In the final part, new possible joint research scenarios will be outlined.