The “Barbara Picutti Creative Contest” is a creative format dedicated to MAIRE colleagues, named after the memory of colleague Barbara Picutti, an “engineer and humanist” - as she liked to call herself -, who left her imprint.
The project enhances the company's history and heritage, testing colleagues' creativity and courage to dare: each year a competition is launched, a call to action to “create” something. The object can be an ancient work tool or a project model unearthed in the MAIRE office storerooms, the historical archives or digital vault
drawings and materials, but imagination always rules!
In 2024 the challenge was to write tales about Group’s ancient working tools and project models; in 2025 to recount about the "journey", in all its meanings, starting from the materials of our digital vault!
Scroll through the boxes below to discover the winners and all the stories of the 2024 edition "TOOL TALES" and the 2025 edition "ROUTE TALES"!
“Barbara Picutti Creative Contest” – ed. 2026 Ties tales
In the third edition edition the challenge will be to delve into the Group's archives (through our digital vault) in search of those hidden or forgotten bonds that have shaped individual and collective stories...
“Barbara Picutti Creative Contest” – ed. 2025 Route tales
In the second edition, the challenge will be to browse our digital vault, the Group's Digital History Archive, and be inspired by a project, photo, document or video to write a story on the theme of “travel,” in all its meanings: travel of memory, travel as exploration, business travel or journeys into the future...
“Barbara Picutti Creative Contest” – ed. 2024 Tool tales
In its first edition, the challenge was to write stories, true or fancy, about ancient working tools and historical models found in MAIRE offices. Are you intrigued to read all the tales and experience the award event again?
Our historical equipment
The old work tools of architects and engineers tell a piece of our country's industrial history.
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
This digital vault is an information technology platform where about 20,000 drawings, plans, documents from MAIRE's historical archive have been digitized; it enables efficient and quick consultation of materials by cross-referencing descriptive categories, metadata, vocabulary terms, chronological references and tags.
Register for free and explore the vault!