Between October and December last year, the MIRCo center, along with entities such as Verso, Viento Sur, the Rose Luxembourg Foundation and others, organized the cycle of activities “Atado y Bien Atado”, to commemorate the 50 years of Freedom in Spain. These activities tried to present the Transición and Francoism in a critical way, as well as reflecting on their footprints in the present.
These activities focused on the analysis of the past, always keeping the present as the starting point. And in order to be able to establish a thread between both moments, apart from all the activities we organized (podcasts, symposiums, the congress on political transitions in Southern Europe, etc.), the MIRCo-UAM center, with the Centre d’Estudis sobre Dictadures i Democràcies (CEDID-UAB), Manifest and the other organizing entities from Atado y Bien Atado, we present the Memory Maps.
This platform, open to collaboration from the public, tries to locate in present day maps of Barcelona, the marks and events that shaped contesting political activity during Francoism and Transición. From the workers’ or neighbors’ resistance to political repression, passing through the biggest demonstrations and the places to organize and resist, these maps present memory as an open, collective task, located and situated, based on a participatory methodology and enriched by Public History, Critical Pedagogy, the visual standpoint and Community Development.
Everybody can contribute to enrich this map, using its web mapasdelamemoria.com. As of now, the map of Barcelona is available, but we are working to release the Madrid map as soon as possible.
From MIRCo, we encourage you to discover this platform and to collectively recover the resistance and struggles many compromised people shaped throughout the darkest years of Spanish history.
