Photographs exist in real time, by definition instantaneous, but they can also expand temporality beyond measure, collapsing past and present, to offer an emotional coexistence of what has been and what is. Exactly as we find in a family album, where evidence intertwines with illusion and memory fades in the desire for what might appear on the following page. These are the initial sensations that emerge browsing through what essentially resembles a very particular family album, the remarkable story of the Alma Mater, of a University with a magnificent and auratic past, but which simultaneously is able to conjure up a future that is already present, already disseminated in the daily routine of academic life.