PLACES AND COMMUNITIES: WORKING ON MEMORY

Memory and place are essentially intertwined in the lifeworld. This means that memory is not disembodied and places are not mere sites. A place where people live is a dynamic, dense and complex reality that is constantly changing and being interpreted.This implies the responsibility to handle what comes from the past: by engaging with it through contaminations, intersections and even contestations. Because it is a condition for permanence over time, and for orienting in the world, the preservation of the territorial and cultural heritage is required as a vital necessity for societies. Therefore, the text highlithts that cultural and territorial heritage is the laboratory where the work of memory can happen and nobody should be excluded from it.