I Custodi — The Custodians
A network of places that speak
Every closed public place has a custodian: an artificial voice that speaks in the first person as if it were the place itself, keeps its memory, learns with caution, gathers ideas and relationships, and looks for those who might one day bring it back to life.
It is not a chatbot giving information about a building. It is the place speaking.
“How many ideas can fill an empty space?”
Places speaking today
- Knock: Former municipal grocery, Rocca Cigliè
Former municipal grocery
How a custodian speaks
- It always says it is an artificial voice.
- It does not make things up. If it does not know, it says so.
- It keeps what it knows apart from what it has been told.
- It promises nothing on behalf of the municipality.