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1. Fragments: Recovering a Hidden Family Archive
The game begins inside the municipal archive of Porta Europa, where a central family dossier has disappeared shortly before the opening of an exhibition on migration, labour and belonging. The player must reconstruct the story of the Marin–Haddad family by recovering documents scattered across six different locations in the city.
Archival Investigation: Players search catalogues, examine folders and decode archival references to identify missing materials.
Local Sources: Photographs, objects, maps, letters and administrative records reveal fragments of a wider territorial history.
Invisible Memories: The game brings attention to stories that can easily remain excluded from official archives or dispersed across private and community memories.
2. Connections: Comparing Sources and Detecting Manipulations
The investigation moves beyond the archive and enters the places where history was lived: the railway station, the market district, the textile factory, the school and the harbour. Each scenario requires players to connect sources, reconstruct timelines and distinguish documented facts from interpretations, omissions and deliberate falsifications.
Source Criticism: Players compare photographs, maps, registers, captions and oral testimonies instead of accepting a single narrative.
Forgery Detection: Altered labels, manipulated photocopies, edited images and misleading audio fragments must be identified and contextualised.
Territorial Mapping: The family history gradually becomes a map of arrival, settlement, work, education and public representation across the city.
3. Voices: Building a Living Public History Exhibition
In the final phase, the player must decide how the recovered archive should be presented to the public. The objective is not to create one simplified story, but to build an exhibition capable of showing complexity, uncertainty and the role of community participation in the preservation of memory.
Oral History: Testimonies help restore missing perspectives and reveal the limits of institutional records.
Participatory Archiving: Community annotations, corrections and listening sessions become part of the historical process.
Public Exhibition: Players select the most meaningful sources and construct a final narrative that connects family memories, territorial transformations and the ethical responsibilities of public history.
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