Multimedia Narrations on work, skills and innovation in the mechanical industry
From 2000 to 2014, the Metalnet laboratory collaborated with Officina Emilia in carrying out research activities on multimedia document production on mechanical companies in Modena, on the work of women in the mechanical industry in Modena and on the history of skills and innovation in the post-war age. The various multimedia products, including a video installation and a series of video interviews, which from 2009 to 2014 were part of the layout and documentation of the workshop museum in Officina Emilia, can now be consulted online.
links to the videos created by Metalnet with Officina Emilia
Exfo. The factory with the yard (Exfo La Fabbrica col cortile_it), 2008
Texts by Sebastiano Brusco, Andrea Costa, Giulia Piscitelli, Rossella Ruggeri, Attilio Trebbi
Presentation by Margherita Russo | Photographs by William Guerrieri |
Artestamp Edition, 2008 | 80 pages € 18.00 | with CD-ROM | ISBN 978-88-89123-49-2
Places, people, machines, work (I luoghi, le persone, le macchine, il lavoro) (recorded and directed by Sara Pozzoli, duration of 40'), 2008-2009
The video presents a review of the vast gestures of the work in the auditory landscape of the workshop that aims to produce the effect of involving visitors through a visual and sound experience.
Words of work. Workers of the enterprises in the mechanical cluster of Modena [Parole di lavoro. Lavoratori nelle imprese del distretto modenese della meccanica_it] (by Sara Pozzoli and Filippo Tantillo, average duration of each video 6-7'), 2008-2009
Nine series of video interviews presenting, through the tales of thirty-five workers, a gallery of testimonies on human and work experiences | during the shooting | Video interviews are also available online.
The filming and recordings of the interviews were carried out in November and December 2008 at nine partner companies of Officina Emilia: Ferrari Bruno & C. s. n. c. c. | F. lli Gruppi di Gruppi Davide & C. s. n. c. | Galvanica Nobili s. r. l. | Nexma Group | PTL s. r. l. | S. I. MO s. r. l. |SOCAGE s. r. l. | Torneria G. S. S. by Galavotti and Ganzerli s. n. c. | Utensileria Modenese s. r. l.
Documenting work through videos
Margherita Russo (ed.) in collaboration with Sara Pozzoli and Filippo Tantillo
DEMB Working Paper Series 93,2016
SONIA_ Women’s mechanics [SONIA_La meccanica delle donne_it], 2012
The SONIA project is based on a series of researches on the mechanical industry documented in the Metalnet laboratory and gathers first-hand information through a series of interviews addressed to a group of workers employed by three mechanical partner companies. These interviews would make it possible to compare the narrations and attributions of meaning related to the cluster of Modena's mechanics, work, family and private life, relationships between men and women, inside and outside companies.
What’s the quality of work for women in the mechanic field in Modena? [Quale qualitą del lavoro per le donne nella meccanica modenese?_it] Field research Giulia Piscitelli, What’s the quality of work for women in the mechanic field in Modena ? Field research, DEMB Working PAper Series 101,2016 DEMB Working Paper Series 101
A lathe at school. [Un tornio a scuola] (Homm-sw_Story stories), 2012
Travel diary [Diario di viaggio_it], 2009-2014 and 2015
Through the Metalnet laboratory, a rich documentation was produced on the partner companies of Officina Emilia and on the thousand and thousand specializations, technologies, materials, intersectoral weaves of the mechanical industry in Emilia.
The web application, created by Officina Emilia to document the travel diary, was also used in the project "What mechanical production is it needed to feed the planet?"