How can we build bridges between generations to promote social cohesion and digital inclusion?
Promoting community dynamism and citizenship!
In 2021, the Museu do Bairro pilot project began: an active citizenship project based on personal artistic intervention, where students are invited to examine and record their perspective on the tangible and intangible heritage of their community.
The aim of the Neighbourhood Museum Between Generations is to enhance communities and boost the social and digital inclusion of seniors in the Alcântara and Ajuda BIPs through intergenerational groups – children, teenagers, adults and the elderly – who make the heritage of western Lisbon more dynamic while increasing media literacy and citizen participation.
Through participatory photography, everyone is challenged to (re)discover their ‘Neighborhood’ – with artistic research to create exhibition content and promote the appreciation of their community.
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Discover, document, interpret and revitalize cultural heritage through photography!
tangible and intangible heritage, increasing participants' sense of belonging and identity.
active citizenship in educational contexts - students, educators and others involved.
the use of digital and artistic tools to promote intergenerational and intercultural dialogue.
personal, family, and community skills, such as media literacy, through the creation of participatory projects.
> Mapping of Groups / Launch of proposals / Identification and diagnosis of participants;
> Preparation of methodology / Session plans (Neighbourhood Museum Offices)
> Dynamizattion of Neighbourhood Museum Offices
(Senior groups initially have 2 to 3 digital literacy workshops; support grants for equipment)
> Group intergenerational laboratories
> Workshops and field trips with the project's younger and elder participants
> Laboratories for democratic participation
> Exchange of experiences and discussion about the community and its riches and needs, through public participation
> Production of itinerant community exhibitions/openings that celebrate each group's work
> Preparation of basic skills and knowledge: Media and Visual Literacy, Stereotyping and Prejudice Today, Hate Speech, Art, Civic Participation and Heritage, Working with the Community
> Kick-off meeting with a budding partnership: local entities and/or partners, educators and social workers, young people and volunteers
> Short training courses in topics such as media literacy and civic participation
> Strategic partner meetings
> Brainstorming and conceptualization of the final campaign with the results of the participating groups' work
> Creation of the campaign and supporting materials
> Spread the social advocacy campaign using the materials
(video, image, photograph and texts/posts produced specifically to accompany the viral distribution) to reach the local and wider universe
> Party/celebration
> Campaign launch event and public presentation of the exhibition
Cultural Heritage can be defined as a tangible and/or intangible legacy that constitute the culture of a group or people.
Just as in a museum we find works that have value (pictures, paintings, objects, etc.), in the Museum of the Neighborhood we will find what we value in the community: the churches, the gardens, the beach, the people, the stories, etc.
Material cultural heritage is made up of tangible and concrete elements, for example, works of art and churches.
Intangible cultural heritage relates to the knowledge, skills, beliefs, practices and customs of communities.
And then there’s the natural heritage: the forests, the coast, the sea or lake.
Project where the populations of the territories of Alcântara and Ajuda are invited to investigate what they value most in this community – the cultural, human, natural, tangible and intangible heritage of their community.
The Museu do Bairro is art and an invitation, where young people and teachers investigate the material and immaterial heritage of the municipality of Oeiras through participatory photography.
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