Moving Lusitalia

multimedia exhibition and audiovisual journey

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About this project

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.

Moving Lusitalia

Credits

  • Lead design and art direction

    Chiara Ligi

  • Lead design and project management

    Micol Riva

  • Content design and production assistant

    Esther Chionetti, Alessia Fallica

  • Original motion soundtrack & sound design

    Max Viale

  • Graphic Design

    Giorgia Borroni

  • Scenography

    2F Architettura - Alessandro Floris, Dhaarini Rajkumar

  • Multimedia consultant

    Fabio Lombardo

  • Web App development

    Giga Design Studio

  • Curator

    Heidi Rodrigues Martins

  • Historical research and concept

    Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines (CDMH) Marcel Lorenzini, Antoinette Reuter

  • Interviewees

    Jean Back-Hoffmann, llda Baldelli, Bernard Bonvini, Serge Bonvini, Giuliana Bottaccin, Luigi Cadelli, Dina Carvalho, Mars Di Bartolomeo, Eleonora Fario, Célia Gomes, Francisco et Maria João Serra, Émile Lorenzini, Marcel Lorenzini, Américo et Isaura Loureiro, Antonia et Manuel Magalhães, Maria Marques, Eduardo Monteiro, Louis Pavan, Patricia Pavan, Mylène Porta, Graça Rei, Antoinette Reuter, Alma Sabotic, Vítor dos Santos, Carla Serrano, Jeanny Terreri, Oliva de Zorzi