{"id":28384,"date":"2016-04-28T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=28384"},"modified":"2016-05-11T10:07:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T13:07:36","slug":"vila-autodromo-progresses-with-plans-for-evictions-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=28384","title":{"rendered":"Vila Aut\u00f3dromo Progresses with Plans for Evictions Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Residents and activists gathered in Vila Aut\u00f3dromo<\/a> this last Saturday April 23 to begin the process of creating a museum focusing on the community and its history of resistance<\/a> and removals<\/a>, the Museu das Remo\u00e7\u00f5es (Evictions Museum)<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A group of around 50 people including activists, residents and former residents of Vila Aut\u00f3dromo attended the event to honor the history of the community and help the museum take shape. <\/span><\/p>\n

The idea of the museum, as researcher and activist Poliana Monteiro explained, is “to think about what Vila Aut\u00f3dromo was like before the evictions. We think it is very important to document the community life that [residents] had here, not in a defeatist or negative sense, but in the sense of giving value to something they have had to rebuild and reconstruct ever since the start of the demolitions.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Museu<\/a><\/p>\n

The day started with residents gathering around a map of Vila Aut\u00f3dromo as it had been before removals began. The residents discussed each place they remembered and described the community and the people who lived there. <\/span><\/p>\n

They highlighted places of interest and categorized them into three groups. The first was “sustainability,” social spaces where the residents gathered to enjoy themselves, such as a park or bakery. The second category was “community,” marking spaces used by residents in the fight against evictions. The final category was “saudades<\/em>” (a Portuguese word meaning a feeling of longing or nostalgia) which marked the houses of residents who had left the community but were involved in the fight to remain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Museu<\/a><\/p>\n

The residents then led the group around the remaining buildings of Vila Aut\u00f3dromo and the demolition sites, telling stories and describing what the community was like before demolitions began and during their long fight to remain. They marked out the plots of the houses and looked for remnants of the houses to use as focal points for the creation of museum exhibits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Resident Sandra Maria<\/a> told the story of why “Associa\u00e7\u00e3o de Moradores”\u00a0(Neighborhood Association) was painted on the remaining houses after the original building was demolished<\/a>: “The idea was to show that the Neighborhood\u00a0Association hadn\u2019t ended. They had destroyed the building, but the Neighborhood Association wasn\u2019t restricted to a building… it continued. So we wrote it on all the houses, and we did the campaign \u2018I am the neighborhood\u00a0association\u2019.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Community museums<\/a> are significant\u00a0in preserving the history and raising the self-esteem of a community and its residents through recognition and celebration of their history<\/a> and culture<\/a>, however many are underfunded and threatened with eviction<\/a>. This new community museum in Vila Aut\u00f3dromo will be an important addition, and one that will be meaningful for the lives of favela residents who have been impacted by removals all over the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Vila Aut\u00f3dromo residents and supporters hope to launch the Museu da Remo\u00e7\u00f5es on International Museum Day, May 18. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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