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enthusiasm of those who find out a reason for pride and satisfaction in taking their heritage with their own hands, with their own hearts, with their own capacities and good will, and who made of this process and this achievement a tool for self-assurance, for the defence of their own rights, for the realisation of their dreams. For this people, a "museum" IS no mystery anymore, it is actually a simple thing, a good thing to do. 2. The "IDENTITY PROJECT" of the 4th Colony This project started in the far west of the region, high upon the hills, in an area encompassing 9 municipalities, or "neighbourhoods", today defined as one of the "Reserves of the Biosphere" by UNESCO. A place where there are no museums, no theatres, no libraries, no shopping centres, but only potato fields and forests, and a working system very similar to those of medieval times. The project started very modestly, by the initiative of the local cultural officer of one of the poorest villages in the area, named Silveira Martins (in honour of a famous political leader who interfered in the settlement of Italian immigrants in the 19th c.). The village was going into an irreversible process of death ... no resources for development in the economical, political or social sense, the youngsters escaping from the fields in search of the great urban centres and a better quality of life. The parents growing old, and fighting to survive. What to do to recover the pace of development, when people did not wanted to remember the shadows of their difficult past and the failure of their settlements, when comparing their own history with those of more successful communities, becoming rich with commerce and the industry of wine. When I first came to the area, as a consultant for the Heritage Office, I was impressed by the helpless situation of these people, and by the syndrome of "identity amnesia" they were suffering from, by their lack of self-esteem and of hope. This was surely a case for a social psychologist, I have thought. Together with the local officer, who had already started a program of annual "forums", getting together all the rural districts of the region, we started a systematic program of what we call "heritage education", a sort of "heritage literacy" program. All the work was based on children and teachers, who could more directly involve the parents and the whole community. The strategy was to work with their own reality, objects and working tools, in a process of observation, of questioning the function and meaning of each element or thing, starting with their own houses, linking these elements to the history and the cultural traditions of people, "rediscovering" their memories, their tragedies, and the values of their lives. We could only work between seasons, since children, teachers and parents are on the fields in 48 I J
plantation and harvesting times. After 8 years of development of the "Identity Project", nine districts in the former 4th immigration colony are involved in this regular program of Heritage Education. What kind of "museology" is being worked upon, there? Objects are identified, collected, studied, preserved in their original places, exhibited in schools and community centres throughout the area, forums of discussion on cultural heritage and on tourist resources to be explored are being held regularly, schools are involved with the work in their "curricula", but there's no "museum" in sight, or in planning ... this would be in my view a kind of "field museology", of "primary museology", in a "pre-historical" or "pre-museological" sense, if you want to take as a starting point the term "museum", as an institution, as the pre-condition for the practice of museology. I'm not sure one could still keep to this "parameter". 3. The "NOAH'S ARCH" project This project is still in its early stages, and I will only describe its proposition and context. The situation has to do, as the name suggests, with a great deluge which is meant to happen in the next 5 years. One of the big rivers which crosses a huge area of the southern country, is going to be damped with the construction of a major hydro-electric plant. The waters of the big lake which will be formed will cover an area of 500 square kilometres. A vast portion of fields, villages, cemeteries, rural "nuclei", and a whole small town will be flooded. Since one year I have been involved in the project of saving the heritage and the cultural . memory of people, and of the management of the environmental changes due to happen. The project is run by the initiative of the Electric Enterprise in charge of the damp construction, and is being developed in association with local authorities and the involved groups. Many programs and actions are already starting, and a whole town has been rebuilt in a higher hill. Again we are starting the whole project with the participation of the communities affected by the Deluge, and with a systematic work of Heritage Education, in order to motivate people to take the control of what is inevitable. The negotiations of land and properties include now the negotiation of the preservation of cultural values, marks, relationships and memories. Against the "electric power", we are trying to build up a generating net of "cultural power". In a few years, I hope to be able to report on how the whole process developed, and on how the Noah's Arch settled on a peaceful mountain. For the moment, all that I can say from these three examples, is my belief in Paulo Freire's theory (the famous Brazilian philosopher and educator 49
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AUTHORS Per-Uno AGREN, Umea Univers
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