Presented at the Green Ideas 2011 event in Chios, Greece.

1. University of Gastronomic Sciences Slow Food The research project GRANAI DELLA MEMORIA by Piercarlo Grimaldi and Davide Porporato

2. Project “Granai della Memoria” The memory that people are writing with every moment of their lives is a World’s intangible heritage that is disappearing. To answer to this anthropological emergency, it has been written the “ Manifesto on the future of knowledge systems” presented at Terra Madre 2010, and it has been launched the research project "Granai della Memoria" [Granaries of Memory] to gather and preserve this precious intangible heritage that previous generations wanted to consign us.

3. Project “Granai della Memoria” “ To found a library is like to build public granary, accumulating stocks for the winter of the spirit that, I see, is coming against my will. I built many things, and to rebuild means to collaborate with Time, with its aspect of “Past”. It is to understand its spirit, or to modify it, holding it out towards a longer future. It means to discover the secret of the spring under the stones” Marguerite Yourcenar , Memories of Hadrian

4. Project “Granai della Memoria” “ The hunter-gather comes to know the surface of her land through her moving. The sedentary farmer builds her world in circles around her granary.” Leroi Gourhan André, 1993, Gesture and Speech

5. Project “Granai della Memoria” “ It is necessary to collect the memories of rural communities before they are lost. Once, there was the oral memory that guaranteed the transmission of this treasure. Today we need authentic granaries to fight such a famine of ideas, to contrast the dominant and massified culture that has silenced the precious knowledge of our fathers. I do not intend to leave this battle to other people. We need to defend the “biodiversity” of cultures, restore the just dignity to indigenous languages and dialects” Carlo Petrini

6. Project “Granai della Memoria” Starting from the anthropological emergency of collecting the traditional knowledge, practices, and languages of local communities, the project is aimed to preserve and reconstitute collective memories, which are a fundamental basis to interpret present times and plan the future. We are building a “granary”, a multimedia archive of the oral and gestural heritages that are created and transmitted by all the people of Earth.

7. Project “Granai della Memoria” The main objective of this project is to gather all the information in a digital archive, in order to make them easily accessible by a large public and analyzable for scientific researches. The archive “Granai della Memoria” will return the collected information organizing them per geographical provenience, analytical categories, key words, etc.

12. Project “Granai della Memoria” Memory-Bearers Reference to the Sources Links Name and Surname Birth year Place of Birth Education Profession bibliography sitography filmography Web document photo Text document Audio document Video document Record Number Date Title of the record Archive-channel name Historic period of the memory Nation Region Province City Neighborhood Latitude Longitude Altitude Google map link Wikipedia record for the city Description Categories Tag Date creation document Author Technical characteristics Collocation of the document within the archive

25. Project “Granai della Memoria”