Beyond promoting awareness and fostering public engagement with vernacular photography through exhibitions and educational activities, ARCHIVIO VIVO encourages the active involvement of local communities through the collection of research materials (amateur and archival photographs), creating a documentary foundation that serves both as a repository of local memory and as a resource for new contemporary art projects. Through the projects developed within ARCHIVIO VIVO, the association GU.PHO. – Centro per la fotografia vernacolare APS is also building a stable regional network through a series of satellite initiatives.