Project PONTO BRASIL

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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Our group is participating of a workshop at the Museum of the Person (www.museudapessoa.net), part of the project Ponto Brasil, from TV Brasil. We are learning how to tell stories to other people. I’m going to quote some of the most important things we’ve learnt:

What is a story?
There are several ways to define and interpret what is a story. The objective of a story also can vary: story of the ideas, of a nation, of a given group, story of someone’s life;
In this formation, we will use the concept that every story is a narrative organized by someone, at a certain time, and implicates in a tipoff. And this construction happens, invariably, in the present, for one or more authors (Tecnologia Social da Memória, p. 15).

What is memory?
such as the story, there are many ways to understand what is memory, depending on the area of knowledge, the time and the culture that we consider. The Museum of the Person understands that memory presupposes register, even if this register is made in our own body. It is, by excellence, selective. It gathers the experiences, the knowledge, the sensations, the emotions and the feelings that, for one reason or another, we choose to keep. (Tecnologia Social da Memória, p. 13)

Individual Memory
Each one of us carries inside their experiences and impressions, accompanied by the thing they learned. We don’t keep everything, since memory is always selective. We should highlight that what we judge to be significant or not results from the space and the time in which we live. The stories of each one of us contain the story of groups to which we belong and of the people with who we have relationships.

Collective Memory
it’s the set of registers elected by the group as significants, which establishes its identity, its way of being and living in the world, and comes from its historic and cultural parameters. The possibility of sharing this memory is what gives each one of us the sense of belonging. It’s about a creative and dynamic relationship between the individual and the group. (Tecnologia social da memória, p. 3)