The «Diffuseum» in Rome

Objects and places have voices. Voices have archaeologies. Some voices are visible, some are invisible, some are historical and some are contemporary. All are fragmentary. We call these voices traces. For us, a language trace is any monument, place, object, wall, corner, urban space, painting, inscription, gra'to, or any other element from any historical period in the public domain which testi$es to the life of languages, linguistic varieties, traditions, events, or anything remarkable that may serve to retrace the history of language cultures. Fragmentary and o%en indexical, language traces resonate with the memory of languages and illustrate the deep and layered relationship between tangible objects and their intangible signi$cance—they represent, in essence, the linguistic dimension of place and material culture