Archivio is an Italian magazine created with the objective of ‘expanding the frontiers of content creation from archival resources, building on the idea that the life cycle of archives does not end with their inventory, digitalization, and reorganization, but rather it is at that point that they can take on a new lease of life, becoming something vital, of endless potential’.
So a new imagining of what ‘archive' really means, then. If it sounds highbrow it’s also a very accessible project or reason – for a magazine, and Archivio is an absorbing and thoughtful read, an ideas library or museum you’ll come back to for intellectual nourishment, to learn or to verify, or as the publishers put it, ‘a favourites bar to refer to when in doubt or out of curiosity’.
The fifth issue marks a slight shift in design and direction, offering the reader a deep dive into the vaults of 1990s Italy.
