Abstract

CAMPOS MEDINA, Luis; PEDRERO PAREDES, Cynthia  and  AUBAN BORRELL, Mónica. Attachment, Participation and Territorial Co-production. The Mirada de Barrio Project in Santiago de Chile. RLEC/LJCS [online]. 2023, vol.10, n.1, pp.71-89.  Epub June 30, 2023. ISSN 2184-0458.  https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.4362.

The Mirada de Barrio (View From the Neighbourhood) project was developed by the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende between 2017 and 2019 to establish a new link between the museum and the neighbourhood where it is located: the República neighbourhood in Santiago de Chile. This paper addresses the territory’s production modalities related to the actions implemented within this project’s scope. In this way, we seek to contribute to a discussion that often overlooks the fact that territory is also a sensitive reality and that, consequently, it is important to include it among the focuses of observation of artistic mediation since it expresses one of its most powerful effects. Our methodology relies on the systematisation of experiences and self-ethnography tools, through which we analyse the direct participation of one of the authors in the process. The Mirada de Barrio project provided openness for the collective construction of territory, overcoming the sharing of what is sensitive, which prevails in forms of sociability characterised by mistrust, disregard for forms of appropriation other than private property, and affective disconnection with the inhabited territory. The new link between the neighbourhood and the museum, generated by effective participation, prompts practices of coexistence and cooperation through which a new form of territorial co-production emerges, one that considers sensitive and affective elements previously not consciously regarded by the residents in their daily life in the neighbourhood.

Keywords : attachment; territorial co-production; participatory curation; museum; territory.

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