Marianna Belvedere
Specialized art historian, heritage education expert, vice president of Spazio Geco Cooperative Society. Curates, together with the other founding members, accounting, planning and fundraising activities. She coordinates an internal working group (MUSEUMS team). She is a partner and vice-president of the Cooperative born in 2018, but since 2013 she has already been coordinating the activities of the association that preceded the birth of the company and has been involved in the development of one of the areas of research and work: digital fabrication at the service of cultural heritage valorization. Since 2023 she has been fully dedicated to the growth of Spazio Geco, closing important parallel working relationships. Her experience as an expert in heritage education and her years of service in the library field enable her to design innovative, high-content user services capable of “opening” sources to a wide audience. In Gecko’s projects, she is responsible for devising the concept behind the enhancement and many other aspects related to creating and displaying content in an accessible sense. Spazio Geco has to its credit numerous interventions in museums, libraries, archives and cultural (and other) institutions of various kinds throughout Italy. Works range from the conception and realization of entire multimedia and interactive displays (e.g., the one for the Museum of Visconti di Belgioioso, Pavia 2024), playful popular paths with digital points of interest (totems) for in-depth study (MVSA experience at the MVSA, Museum of History and Art Valtellinese in Sondrio, the end result of one of the winning projects of the INNOVAMUSEI 2021 call for proposals), to single elements such as 3D puzzles or multi-accessible tactile maps, development of web apps, websites, writing and production of widespread interactive podcasts related to the storytelling of parks and institutions, interactive tactile closets, AI-powered selfie totems, and more. As co-curator of the volume History Goes on Stage, on December 10, 2013, she received the Silvia Dell’Orso Award for the best popularization work inherent to the issues concerning the country’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage (archaeological, historical, artistic, architectural, demoethnoanthropological, landscape) for the year.In recent years, she has lectured on the issues of accessibility and enhancement of heritage at institutions of higher learning (e.g., the course “CMakers+:prototyping for communities” conducted by the Fondazione Scuola Cova in Milan in 2023) and is involved in numerous speeches related to these issues in public occasions of an academic, association, museum nature.
