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Archive of the Club of Rome

The Club of Rome is an organization that through research, debates, conferences, lectures, and publications of reports promotes the understanding of the global challenges that humanity and the world are facing. All of these activities leave a valuable trace of potential information on their archive. The goal of this project is to collaborate with the main core of the organization, spreading knowledge that leads to change, by transforming their historical archive into instruments of strategic and cultural innovation by recovering and selecting documents for the creation of a digital archive. A digital archive based on the idea that thanks to digital media, information can reach a vast amount of people, and that through archives, memory can become future, a future where people can make their contribution and spread the word for change

The Club of Rome is an organization founded in 1968, that through research, debates, conferences, lectures, and publications of reports, promotes the understanding of the global challenges that humanity and the world are facing. All of these activities leave a valuable trace of potential information on their archive.

Nowadays their physical archive is located in the office at Winterthur, Switzerland but is neither as rich nor organized as it should be for 50 years of research and work. In addition to this, even though the organization is very strong at making events, conferences, reports, and essays, a huge part of the information and material related to these activities are not available for the public. Speaking in terms of digital information, The Club of Rome has no digital archive, the information on its webpage is very general, and is not as complete or updated as it should be, according to all the work and research accomplished in all these years. After analyzing the physical archive present at the Club of Rome’s headquarter, and based on the desk and field research it’s was concluded that the digitization was a key element for the valorization of the physical archive. The digitalization process presents several advantages, in first place, it is a mechanism of documentary preservation, it allows a more open consultation, valorizing of the existing historical material, enabling a two way consultation, one to be used institutionally by Club of Rome community and the other by the general public. In addition to this, after the field research at the 50th Anniversary conference and the analysis of the State of the art, it’s was concluded that creating a digital platform was the most suitable idea to fully develop the project because it could be possible to update the existing Club of Rome’s webpage, and link it to the digital archive and create a network that connects the information with the social media and other existing archives around the world. In addition to giving the opportunity to the organization to engage with younger audiences, facilitating the spread of information to people all around the world and giving special value to the information. For the reasons mentioned above, this projects proposes the transformation of the Club of Rome’s historical archive into a digital platform of strategic and cultural innovation that potentiate and makes the most of the organization’s core values. This digital platform will be an online and open network of content that spreads the body of knowledge of the Club of Rome within the organization and to the general public, including all the information about the organization, the members, projects, initiatives and most importantly, making a valuable trace of information that comes from the past to have an impact on the future.