Os arquivos inmersos no futuro

"The future has already always begun; it is the present. The past is what we are because we are what we have been. More exactly, we are what we remember we were." (Francis Ferrarotti). By cultivating archives through successive activations people and communities define identities. In these activations the meanings of archives are constructed and reconstructed. This meaning making can be beneficial or injurious, turning records into instruments of liberation or of oppression. Archives are thus not a static artefact imbued with the record creator’s voice only, but a dynamic process involving an infinite number of stakeholders in time-space. That is why archives are never closed, but always open into the future. Digital archives will always be in a state of becoming, being created and recreated by technologies of migration and reconstruction, and by the use of social media applications. The future of that archival heritage (whose heritage?) has already begun.