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The paper proposes a semiotic analysis of Cityscapes by Valeriana Berchicci, a digital museum of memory of Rome hosted on a permanent and interactive online platform that maps the city through oral narratives collected by the artist and the users themselves. The goal is to test whether the digital platform placed at the service of the museum-archive can constitute a qualitatively innovative way of musealization and memory reprocessing. At the heart of the project is the relationship between representation of urban space, memory and artistic practice, investigated in particular from the perspective of the concepts of museum and his objects, spatial and temporal coordinates, the use of voice in a figurative way, and the intersubjective dimension.

The cities are becoming more and more events, space for cultural events, major exhibitions, International sporting events, political conventions. An emblematic case is represented by the proliferation of cultural festivals in cities and territories of all sizes. What is relationship between these events and the city? Far from being simple headquarters and exhibition places of cultural venues, cities become active participants of the event organized to coincide with it. What effect produce these forms of hybridization between city and cultural event? How does the city make sense? And how does it contribute in "Making the city"? Through a specific case study, this essay will reflect on how the event organization constitutes a new form of representation of the city and the territory, as well as a new form of city, concentrating in itself material and immaterial, morphology and discourse, system and process.