EVOLUTIO
Building the Future for the last 120 years
ARA PACIS MUSEUM, ROME
OCTOBER 7 - NOVEMBER 9
Promoted and organized by Webuild, EVOLUTIO is an exhibition dedicated to the role of infrastructure in Italy's economic and social progress, showing how roads, bridges, dams, subways, and buildings have changed people's lives and fostered the country's growth over the last 120 years.
EVOLUTIO. Building the future for the last 120 years
EVOLUTIO. Building the future for the last 120 years - Making Of
Webuild inaugurates "EVOLUTIO. Building the future for the last 120 years"
EVOLUTIO. What if...
EVOLUTIO. Building the future for the last 120 years
EVOLUTIO: THE EXHIBITION
The Evolutio exhibition illustrates how Italy's progress over the last century has gone hand in hand with the development of infrastructure works—dams, water systems, subways, buildings, railways, highways, bridges—which have led to continuous improvements in living standards.
Having or not having water; having or not having energy; being able to move around or not: these are all conditions that make a difference to people's quality of life. There is a strong relationship between infrastructure and development, and the most advanced countries are those where investment in infrastructure is highest and most stable over time. The Evolutio exhibition tells the story of Italy's social and economic progress.
A history spanning 120 years. A history of Italy's growth through infrastructure. A history of great visions and great infrastructure. A history of ingenuity and know-how.
Divided into six thematic areas, from "The Days: How People Lived" to frame the daily lifestyles of the historical period to "The Path of Italy: The Works," Evolutio sheds light on the radical transformation of a country thanks to engineering and technological advances, recounted through both technical and cultural aspects. And so, at the Ara Pacis, monuments of modernity such as the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens (2016), the Riyadh metro (orange line, 2025), line 1 of the Milan metro, and many others are on display in a sort of novel that lives above and below the world. A hundred photographs and some period and contemporary testimonies evoke the impact that major works have had on Italian society, involving all its components.
The exhibition features images by great industrial photographers, including Gugliemo Chiolini, and socially conscious filmmakers such as Ermanno Olmi, without losing sight of the inspiration that major projects have provided to the world of art and music.
Mostra EVOLUTIO al Museo dell'Ara Pacis - Credits: Moreno Maggi
EVOLUTIO. Building the future for the last 120 years - Making Of
EVOLUTIO: THE DIGITAL MUSEUM
ONLINE FROM OCTOBER 7
Alongside the exhibition, Evolutio also aims to be the native digital exhibition of the major infrastructure projects that Webuild and the companies that have merged into the Group have built over 120 years of history around the world.
The digital museum, online from October 7, traces the evolution of construction and, by presenting these works as feats of engineering and often also of art, becomes a snapshot of how human ingenuity and technology change society, making these structures highly useful for people and territories.
Unpublished testimonials, photos, and videos selected from the Webuild archive: materials from a corporate archive featuring the works of great industrial photography artists.
EVOLUTIO. Infrastructure for human development
EVOLUTIO: The Hidden Heroes
Every infrastructure, every initiative of the webuild group, no matter how visible, striking, or colossal, is made possible through the commitment, passion, and dedication of workers, engineers, technicians... of professionals who collaborate to achieve a common goal.
Heroes who courageously face the challenges that each project presents.
From the Ethiopian forest to the underground of the Alps, thousands of women and men have devoted their lives to a vision, and through collective and harmonious work—a symphony of skills that weaves the strength of hands with the precision of science—they realize works that become expressions of a new collective sense of beauty.
The heroes of this 120-year-long story are not like those of Greek myths; their names do not appear in history books, but they are engraved in stone.
EVOLUTIO. The Power of Work
Stories: le persone dentro e fuori i cantieri. Giuseppe Contardi, Responsabile Archivio Webuild
What would life be like without major infrastructure projects?
Without infrastructure, we would not have the world we know. For the first time, an exhibition recounts the great works that have shaped Italy's history, transforming it from an agricultural country into one of the world's leading economic powers. A 120-year journey to discover who we were, who we are, and who we want to become.
A country's progress is also measured by its investment in infrastructure and its stability over time, and this is a rule that has no exceptions anywhere. That is why 'What would the world be without infrastructure?' is the question that runs through the exhibition.
EVOLUTIO - Come sarebbe la vita senza le grandi opere?
«The project began as a choral narrative: an open story in which infrastructure is revealed as a tool that helps societies progress, navigating a changing world and generating development. It brings together the history of great engineering works that show how the identity of large construction companies is intertwined with the destiny of territories and the lives of people, improving their quality. A choral approach that encapsulates the strength of the collective work of hundreds of thousands of people and the idea that building is never an end in itself, but an act that generates value for entire communities, guiding their development»