Moving Lusitalia

Moving Lusitalia is a physical and digital participatory project that stages the stories of migration and daily life of the former and new inhabitants of the "quartier Italie" of Dudelange, a small town in southern Luxembourg. The aim of this 2-years project: to recount the changes in rhythm, time and space of this microcosm, with its geographical and social mobility, mirroring the local and Grand Duchy's history, and to strengthen the community's sense of belonging by enhancing places and resources (material and immaterial) with a multimedia exhibition and a permanent interactive audiovisual journey.

The multimedia temporary exhibition, set up in the CDMH spaces with a micro-historical and polyphonic approach, saw the collaboration of the inhabitants of the Quartier who actively contributed by narrating and sharing their personal experiences and collecting objects. Structured in 7 “chantiers thématiques”, the exhibition revolved around 'talking objects' that revealed social dynamics and complexities triggered by migration in a polyphony of voices and stories immersed in a layered soundscape.

The themes of the exhibition then expand outwards to embrace the real places of the "quartier Italie" thanks to an interactive audiovisual journey: a "sensitive map" of the neighbourhood that proposes an emotional journey between past and present in the places dearest to the community, opening "space-time windows" and immersing "modern travellers" in unpredictable spaces and times through choral and multilingual audio narratives fused with spatialised binaural sound compositions and hundreds of photos from different eras.