A NEW APPROACH TO THE MUSEUM PROJECT. THE MUSEUM SYSTEM THROUGH THE SYSTEMS DESIGN. A PROJECT FOR THE CULTURAL HERITAGE APPLIED TO 'THE MUSEUM OF ROMAN CULTURE' IN ROME

摘要

The aim of this work is to contribute to the development of a possible and expected path of design of systems well within the context of cultural heritage. Furthermore the goal is that of analyze the controversial relation between preservation and improvement. A complex system as cultural heritage and especially the museum one - in which interact in a conflicting way cultural, emotional, economic and conservative values - needs a creative and planning effort, of systemic nature, able to avoid a complete paralysis. In this way, it is possible - and in our opinion we have - to go over and to re-orient the perceptions of the museum analyzing it as and connecting it with an organism, endowed with the aspects of a model-structure-process. This necessary change of perception shifts the focus from the museum model to the museum process, allowing its structure to move towards a "dissipative structure"; able to keep steady his original form during his transformation. The planning effort of systemic nature necessary for these reasons, creates some resonances, as it happens in music, between self-referential principles (keeper of the continuity art-past-memory) and innovative and integrative principles expressing the value of a socio-cultural ecosystem where the organism of the museum lives and keeps itself active. It's just by this new approach that it's possible to tend to a synthesis of cultural heritage problem, with not distorting and economically paralyzing suggestions of a sustainable development (above all in the case of museums and public heritage). It's possible to hope for a new vitality of this Institutes, just tending to the museum as "culture maker" in which steady elements (collections, archives, ...) develop themselves according with internal and external elements, creating cultural connections. In this way, the museum we are thinking about it will be able to reconnect to the society and to the actual culture, readapting itself to the various potentialities, composing new connecting webs and offering a new opportunity to the knowledge.