Mapping the History of a Territory: Bon Pastor (Barcelona) – Social Remembrance and Heritage Project

Autor

  • Salvador Angosto Associació de Veïns i Veïnes del Bon Pastor Barcelona, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/0208-6107.33.03

Słowa kluczowe:

Barcelona, Bon Pastor, participation, remembrance

Abstrakt

The topic of the article are the complex stages of the formation of the Bon Pastor neighbourhood in Barcelona, and contemporary efforts to create the remembrance space system that would preserve the social memory and historical identity of the place. The author presents how the urban development plans for the district were transformed as a result of major changes in national politics, economy, and social policy, since the 1930s, through 60s and 70s, till today. The article describes the Bon Pastor Civic Memory project as an interesting example of a participatory action aimed at the preservation of local heritage.

The implementation of the Civic Memory project was possible due to the neighbours’ initiative and their cooperation with cultural and academic institutions. The aim of this project is to mark certain points of the territory which possess historically and socially significant value, and to enhance them through public art, urban design and other implementations envisaged. The Association of residents of Bon Pastor (Barcelona) has been characterized, since 1974, for its combative and vindictive nature, at the same time as for its great capacity to launch solidarity initiatives and manage complicated processes to improve the living conditions of residents of the neighbourhood. After the struggles to obtain a health centre, the improvement of communications by metro and bus, and the constant improvement of public space, in recent years, the Association is co-managing with the Barcelona City Council, the radical transformation of the neighbourhood.

The different phases for the remodelling of the neighbourhood, by replacing the so-called “cheap houses” with new buildings, with more spacious apartments and with better material conditions, is coming to an end and now, the possibility opens up, driven by the neighbours and the Museum of the History of the City (MUHBA) to have a metropolitan museographic space devoted to the presentation and study of the evolution of workers’ and popular housing in Barcelona.

Biogram autora

Salvador Angosto - Associació de Veïns i Veïnes del Bon Pastor Barcelona, Spain

Salvador Angosto is an activist, the former president (1975–1980) of the Associació de Veïns i Veïnes del Bon Pastor Barcelona, Spain. He is a Catalan trade unionist and local leader born in a family resident in the Casas Baratas in the Bon Pastor district of Barcelona. He has been greatly engaged in social and political activism focused on improving the living conditions of the neighbourhood and also focused on maintaining the memory and consolidating the historical identity of this area. He gives lectures on the heritage of the Bon Pastor district. He participated in the 3rd International Conference "Aesthetic Energy City. Urban Polarities" organised by the University of Lodz (Department of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy and Ceraneum Centre), the University of Barcelona (Polis Research Centre) and the Urban Forms Foundation on October 25–27, 2018 in Łódź.

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Opublikowane

2019-06-30

Jak cytować

Angosto, S. (2019). Mapping the History of a Territory: Bon Pastor (Barcelona) – Social Remembrance and Heritage Project. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica-Aesthetica-Practica, (33), 37–54. https://doi.org/10.18778/0208-6107.33.03