3rd Ibero-American School of Mediation in Sites and Museums of Memory

The Ibero-American School of Mediation in Sites and Museums of Memory serves as a platform for mediators, educators, and professionals working in memory spaces and sites. It aims to enhance training in key approaches, practices, and concepts relevant to mediation in these spaces through the exchange of experiences, challenges, and insights, while equipping participants with essential tools for effective mediation.

The organisers belong to:

• Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos de Chile
• Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco donde se encuentra el Museo Memorial y Movimientos sociales en México
• Gernika Peace Museum (Spain)
• Museo de la Memoria de Rosario en Argentina.

This year’s edition (2023) aims to reflect on the link between diverse communities and our spaces of memory both inside and outside our centres.

Among the topics to be addressed both at the exhibition tables and in the workshops will be the following:

• Memory laws in the current context (Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Argentina).

• Links with the community, outside the museum walls.

• Extending the boundaries of the museum. Territories.

• Integrating the community. Participatory curatorship

In addition to the round table where the memory laws of these 5 countries will be discussed, we will also have the following workshops divided into three days of work:

• Daniela Ponte and María Celia Fernández from Colectivo Documenta Baigorria ‘La Calamita, building memory with the community’ – Silvana Hidalgo and Maximiliano Lara from Espacio por la Memoria, la Verdad y la Justicia del Cordón Industrial ‘Las acciones de memoria fuera de los sitios’ (Santa Fe, Argentina).
• Agrupación La Providencia de Antofagasta. ‘How to work outside the site of memory’.
• David González and Anna Pastor from EUROM (Catalonia): ‘Route to exile’.
• Lara Sierra of the Museo de la Memoria de Chile (Chile): ‘We are Memory: from individual memories to the collective narrative’.
• Daniela Cornejo and Paula Honorato of the Museo de Bellas Artes (Chile): ‘Exhibition ‘Acontecer 50 years’ from the perspective of participatory curatorship’.
• Francesco Peroni from Museo Casa de la Memoria, Medellín, Colombia: ‘Participatory curatorship with searchers of the disappeared’.