Design and preservation of memory

More than in any other time, today talking about memory is difficult because, more than in any other time, today talking about the future is difficult. The relationship between memory and the future, in all its innumerable connections, is relevant when read through Roberto Pane’s work. Indeed, among the most significant connotations of his research, the connection between memory and the future is perhaps the most far-sighted and provident of results. His reflection and work with the past has highlighted and clarified the relationship that memory must have with the future. Safeguard in order to build. Protect to guarantee the potential of the future. Know the previous to project with enthusiasm, welcoming the new with continuity. The open problem is not memory, whose interpretation have continuous fluctuations, but how to deal with the future through it, being this phenomenon that causes erosion. The future is missing from the current perspectives. A reduction of future predisposes to a reduction of responsibility towards it. Memory becomes sterile due to the lack of matching and correspondence with projected interests, with the future. It does not count in a non-existent future.