Elia CANOSA, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Ángela GARCÍA-CARBALLO, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
The recognition official and popular of the citizen´s struggle that led to the disappearance of the shanty town in Madrid, has been fickle and erratic (Pérez & Sánchez, 2009). There has not been unanimity in the way in which the memory of this type of neighborhood should be evoked in a city where they became more than 15% of the houses in the middle of the last century. These variable memory strategies have also been influenced by the period of construction and the type of residents. The memory of the immigrants who arrived in the harsh post-war period who built the earliest shacks in the capital has no parallel with the memory associated with the last places. The prestige of the first neighborhoods, whose inhabitants forged a strong identity constructed in the struggle for water or electricity and against the dictatorship, although it tends to fade, is still recognizable in some symbolic places.
At least eight urban parks in Madrid have been built over the rubbles left after the demolition of the slums. The strategies to give meaning to these new public spaces vary over time depending on the feelings and interests of current city councils and residents in those areas. The requests to museify some material vestige of that urban landscape (Montañés & Gómez, 2020) happens simultaneously with another simpler practices such as the installation of information panels or even with the indifference and rejection.
With the analysis of the memorial strategies promoted in these cases, ours aim is to contribute to the existing debate (Veschambre, 2009 and Didier, 2018) over the relevance of ordinary heritage in cities, on the significance of the self-construction and the collaborative practices associated with these places, the need to regain his memory and the strategies to achieve it.
Mots clés : memorial strategy|slums|museification|urban parks|Madrid
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