The project “ Store the Future” was devised to meet the demands of two parallel universes whose paths have crossed for years. Respectively, archival institutions and cultural and creative industry.

Store the Future aims at meeting the need to give voice and value to the documentary heritage preserved in archives, especially autobiographical stories ( diaries, letters etc.), in full compliance with the sources and the sensitivity of the authors.
Moreover, it also meets the need for new original stories, inspired by life experience, which belong to the world of artistic creativity; a world of actors, musicians, playwrights, and professionals in the field of cultural industry.
Store the Future is a meeting point for these two sets of needs.

The promoter of our project is the Archivio Diaristico Nazionale (National Diary Archive) of Pieve Santo Stefano (Arezzo, Italy). This archive was established almost thirty-five years ago in order to preserve and pass memory on.This memory is collected in more than 6.500 documents and autobiographical texts.

The experience of the Archivio of Pieve Santo Stefano has given birth to a good conservation and diffusion of the autobiographical stories, always with due attention to the international scenario, to the evolution of the archival research profession, and to the opportunities and motivation that come from the world of entertainment and culture.

This is Store the Future’s attitude. Its vision is open to sharing and to comparison with new experiences and good techniques that come from archival conservation and research field and from European artistic production, in order to create a new culture and growth opportunity.

The main goal of the project is to hand down to a wider range of audience, especially to future generations, the cultural heritage preserved by European organisations which work to collect and store autobiographical stories by producing new artistic productions.