PROJECTS

The activities led by Davide Tansini also include variously ranged cultural projects which combine the engagement in research with that in practical activities.
The operative ambit’s represented by the fortified and military architecture and by the local history of the Middle and the Modern Age.
Aim of this engagement – which concentrates itself particularly on the ancient State of Milan – is identification, study and valorization of the cultural ‘heritage’ represented by the historical and monumental evidences present in the territory.
A cultural project’s more than a simple manifestation: it’s a modus operandi, a programmatic line and a cultural ‘platform’ in which they can insert various activities and undertakings.
Davide Tansini’s minded to conceive and lead cultural projects, also in collaboration with privates, bodies or associations.
Here following they’re listed the projects now operative.

Pontremoli (Massa-Carrara, Italy).
Rocchetta (Castelnuovo or Tower of Busticca [Torre di Busticca]).
South-East corner.
2006.
Digital filing (2006-03043).

Image and memory

Historical evidences aren’t eternal: passing the years both architectures and archives documents suffer destructions and alterations, significant too, so that they erode their value and representativity.
So, preventing or trying to reduce the damages deriving from these losses’s a cultural operation of primary importance, which simultaneously devotes itself to the past, to the present and to the future.
Just the Image and memory project led by Davide Tansini takes care of keeping the harvested evidences, through simple and practical forms which combine the visual perception with the informatic instrument: the digital photographic reproductions.
The acquired subjects divide in two categories: the exemplars of fortified and military architecture (villages, castles, bastioned fronts, rocche, towers) and archival documentations (plans, maps, memorials, letters, notes, registers, reports).
Besides the keeping, aim of the project’s providing a valid instrument for the study and the research, which necessarily must be based on the documents.
For the fortified and military architecture, in particular, Image and memory isn’t restricted to vaster and more known fortified complexes, but gives attention also to so called ‘minor’, transformed or no longer whole structures. In the same way, it doesn’t prefer in photographic shots panoramas or primary buildings, but it goes into architectonical details and into secondary structures. All this to acquire the largest number of information related to every monument.

• Fortified and military architecture (on the spot shots)
  Consistency: about 11,000 images.
  Period: XIII-XX Century.
  Localization: Agazzano (Piacenza), Anacapri (Naples), Arena Po (Pavia), Belgioioso (Pavia), Berceto (Parma), Bereguardo (Pavia), Bettola (Piacenza), Binasco (Milan), Borgo Val di Taro (Parma), Brescia, Brugnato (La Spezia), Calendasco (Piacenza), Camairago (Lodi), Cappella Cantone (Cremona), Casaletto Ceredano (Cremona), Caselle Landi (Lodi), Castell’Arquato (Piacenza), Castelleone (Cremona), Castelnuovo Bocca d’Adda (Lodi), Castiglione d’Adda (Lodi), Cavacurta (Lodi), Cerro (Varese), Coli (Piacenza), Como, Cortemaggiore (Piacenza), Cremona, Cusago (Milan), Fombio (Lodi), Gossolengo (Piacenza), Grumello Cremonese ed Uniti (Cremona), Inverno e Monteleone (Pavia), La Spezia, Levanto (La Spezia), Locarno (Ticino, CH), Lodi, Maccastorna (Lodi), Maleo (Lodi), Medesano (Parma), Milan, Montecastello (Alexandria), Monterosso al Mare (La Spezia), Monticelli d’Ongina (Piacenza), Nibbiano (Piacenza), Noceto (Parma), Opera (Milan), Pandino (Cremona), Perledo (Lecco), Peschiera Borromeo (Milan), Piacenza, Piozzano (Piacenza), Pisa, Pizzighettone (Cremona), Ponte dell’Olio (Piacenza), Pontremoli (Massa-Carrara), Portovenere (La Spezia), Riomaggiore (La Spezia), Rivergaro (Piacenza), Roccabianca (Parma), Rocca de’ Giorgi (Pavia), Romanengo (Cremona), San Bassano (Cremona), San Colombano al Lambro (Milan), San Giorgio Piacentino (Piacenza), San Pietro in Cerro (Piacenza), Sant’Angelo Lodigiano (Lodi), Sarmato (Piacenza), Scandolara Ripa d’Oglio (Cremona), Somaglia (Lodi), Soncino (Cremona), Terranova dei Passerini (Lodi), Trezzo sull’Adda (Milan), Turano Lodigiano (Lodi), Vernasca (Piacenza), Vernazza (La Spezia), Vigolzone (Piacenza) and Villafranca in Lunigiana (Massa-Carrara).

• Archival documentations (copies)
  Consistency: about 2,000 images.
  Period: XV-XIX Century.
  Localization: State Archives of Cremona [Archivio di Stato di Cremona (Theresian Land Register [Catasto Teresiano]), State Archives of Milan [Archivio di Stato di Milano] (Authographs [Autografi], Communes [Comuni], Crivelli-Giulini, Royal Dispatches [Dispacci Reali], Fragments of Sforzeschi registers [Frammenti di registri sforzeschi], Greppi Gridario [Gridario Greppi], Royal Letters [Lettere Reali], [Military [Militare] ancient part, Notarial [Notarile], Registers of the Chancelleries [Registri delle Cancellerie]), State Archives of Turin [Archivio di Stato di Torino] (Topographical Maps for A and B [Carte Topografiche per A e B]), Town Historical Archives of Pavia [Archivio Storico Civico di Pavia] (Communal Archives [Archivio Comunale]), Communal Historical Archives of Pizzighettone [Archivio Storico Comunale di Pizzighettone] (Libri Ordinationum, Various registers [Registri vari]), Communal Library of Pizzighettone [Biblioteca Comunale di Pizzighettone] (Manuscripts [Manoscritti]), State Library of Cremona [Biblioteca Statale di Cremona] (Manuscripts [Manoscritti]), Sverige National Archives [Svenska Riksarkivet] in Stockholm (Sweden) (Outland towns [Utländska stads]).

Organization: personal.
Part: conceiver, author and curator.
Development: active since 2005.
Notes: havervesting and cataloguing of all the images are functional to study purposes. For this last aim and for personal use only Davide Tansini has been authorized by the owner or manager bodies to reproduce the archival documentations: so, transferring and distributing this material isn’t allowed. The photographic shots of the architectonical monuments have been made in public or open to public space, with authorization in case of cultural estates proper to public bodies. Davide Tansini’s the owner of every image.

Monterosso al Mare (La Spezia, Italy).
Rocchetta (Aurora Tower [Torre Aurora]).
North-West front.
2007.
Digital filing (2007-02295).

Davide Tansini’s contacts:

• mobile (+39) 349 2203693;

• e-mail davide@tansini.it.