The city starts where you live! Relations between memory, identity and territory in the headquarters neighborhoods of CEUs

• Autor(a) principal: Jardim, Elaine Aparecida
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: arq.urb
• Texto Completo: https://revistaarqurb.com.br/arqurb/article/view/29
• topic: Memória de bairro; CEUs; São Paulo (capital); Neighborhood memory; CEUs; Sao Paulo (capital)

The project Meu bairro, minha cidade: você tambémfaz parte desta história, which resulted in the inauguralexhibits of the first phase CEUs (2003-04), was conceivedwithin the Municipal Education Secretariat as a project of memory of peripheral neighborhoods. Developed in the context of the commemorations of the 450th anniversary of the founding of the city of São Paulo (1554-2004) the project fulfilled a twofold objective: to highlight the connections between local history and the wider history of the city, aiming at the inclusion of local memories in the school curriculum of the municipal school system, and favor the positive appropriation of the new school space by the population of its surroundings, then recognized as a building agent of the city. To emphasize these goals, we chose to invert the narrative axis of the city’s history from the center to the periphery, according to the premise that “the city begins where you live”. This discursive operation was based on the testimonies of the residents, which now constitute the guiding thread of this article, in order to address the connections between memory, identity and territory, as well as the definition of memory references, from a different perspective than those guiding the policies of patrimonialization.