Ri-mediare attraverso il sonoro: il caso del “Premio Lucia” promosso dal Lucia Festival e l’Archivio diaristico Nazionale durante la pandemia

This contribution intends to analyze the case of the Lucia Prize, an award established in 2020 by Lucia Festival (Florence), curated by Radio Papesse and by the National Diary Archive of Pieve Santo Stefano for the production of original audio-works based on written materials, such as diaries or correspondence, preserved by the Archive itself. The project was born with the intention of ‘responding’ to the crisis generated by the COVID-19 lockdown in the context of fruition, as well as in the cultural production. On the one hand, the arrest of the production sector pushed the Festival to invest its economies in supporting experimental and independent production, on the other the need, for the Archive, to find new channels of dissemination has prompted the institution to ‘open’ its own collection to the gaze of the participants, who, with their works, re-read the materials originating by expanding the narrative. This strategy of intermediate enhancement fits within a broader project of digitization and dissemination of the heritage brought forward from the Archives still in progress. The Lucia Prize, although still in its infancy, is an example of digital enhancement tool for heritage in participatory perspective, which at the same time is rediscovered as a ‘resource’ for the creative industries. The goal of the contribution is to reconstruct, through interviews and the analysis of audio-texts produced by the winners, the intentions, forms and developments of the project, comparing it with other examples of audio-storytelling of cultural heritage