The small town of Elva (Cuneo) has been the protagonist of one of the most singualr forms of activity: the hair collecting. The job of the cavié — in local language — was a man who went door to door to trade women's hair for some chlots for instance.

Elvario is a web communicative, curatorial project that is the result of an exhaustive analysis on the caviè's literature and also an on-field study. The project consists in an hybrid between an atlantis and an archive. The Atlante is a long-form storytelling whit a diaristic tone–of–voice.

It is fruible through the interaction with an Elva's territory map and some itineraries highlighted in it which correspond to storytelling chapters. Chapters contains copy in the local Occitan language with interactive translation in Italian, analog photos made by me and some documents of the Museo dei Caviè in Elva as well as extracts from video documentaries on the singular phenomenon.

Archivio, on the other side, is a digitalization of the whole archive of Museo dei Caviè. Here, Documents are signed with tags to navigate through them. Bills, institutional documents and photographies related to the hair collecting and trading are classified per tipology, date, protagonists, places and chapters in which they feature.

Both section benefit of localized data. In the case of Atlante, there are some itineraries which cavié used to walk. An interactive map allows to swipe between them.

In the archivio section documents are localized in an interactive map in which you can choose them directly. All these interactive maps inserted here have been realized through the software Mapbox Studio for the map setting and the Mapbox.js coding language to design their interactions and implement them in a webapp project.