and Contested Urban Urban Contested and Museos de Ciudad e de Museos Historias Urbanas Urbanas Historias Ciudad de México, octubre de 2017 de octubre México, de Ciudad CAMOC Annual Conference 2017 Conference Annual CAMOC CAMOC Conferencia Anual 2017 Anual CAMOC Conferencia Mexico City, October 2017 October City, Mexico Impugnadas Book of Proceedings of Book Histories Libro de Actas de Libro www.camoc.icom.museum ISBN: 978-92-9012-433-7 ISBN: APRIL 2018 APRIL 1 InternatIonal CommIttee for the ColleCtIons and aCtIvItIes of museums of CItIes © Copyright by CamoC: Design: Cover photo: This e-book is available for download free of charge from the CAMOC website () or upon request at: 2 MuseuMs Of CiTies AnD COnTesTeD urbAn HisTOries editor: 3 07 JOAnA sOusA MOnTeirO 08 MuseuMs, MIgRAtIon And ARRIvAL CItIes Museos, Migrac ión y ciudades de LLegada 12 MArCO bArrerA bAssOls “Museología y Migración en la era Trump” [full text in Spanish] 17 MArlen MOuliOu Antes de ‘La Llegada’.. cómo empoderar a las comunidades de refugiados urbano” 26 JOAn rOCA i AlberT “La ciudad informal en el museo de la ciudad [full text in Spanish] 50 Jesús AnTOniO AnD MACHuCA rAMírez “¿Cuentan los grupos indígenas establecidos en la ciudad [full text in Spanish] 66 HOrTensiA bArDerAs AlVArez “ estructurador del tejido urbano en la periferia sur de Madrid [full text in Spanish] uRbAn MeMoRy, AMnesIA And CIty MuseuMs MeMoria urbana, aMnesia y Museos de ciudad 86 JOAnA sOusA MOnTeirO WiTH DAnielA ArAúJO AnD rui COelHO “ 90 lAurA l. ACCeTTA [full text in Spanish] 104 Jennefer nePinAK AnD ClinT Curle “ Humanos 110 ÁGueDA MACiAs De OliVeirA AnD AnA lúCiA De Abreu GOMes “Ciudad extraordinaria, problemas ordinarios: los casos de tres museos de la ciudad de Brasília 4 118 AnneMArie De WilDT “ Urbanas 127 CinTiA VelÁzQuez MArrOni “ pasado en el museo[full text in Spanish] dIsPuted PResent: CItIes And CuLtuRes In ConFLICt eL Presente en disP uta : ciudades y cuLturas en confLicto 140 sArAH M. HenrY “ 148 CrisTinA MieDiCO “Quien destruye museos puede dominar el futuro: Memoria en Arte y en los Museos 159 AleKsAnDrA sAlACH AnD KATArzYnA JArOsz “ 167 bOnGinKOsi “rOCK” zuMA “El grado de impacto de las rupturas en los museos de las ciudad de Sudáfrica patrimonial 179 nAYAT KArAKOse “ sAyIng the unsPeAkAbLe In MuseuMs diciendo Lo indecibLe en Los Museos 186 JeTTe sAnDAHl “ 192 inGA sArMA “ 199 MinGQiAn liu “Museo de Shijia Hutong y las batallas para la preservación histórica 212 CHris reYnOlDs AnD WilliAM blAir “La reformulación de 1968 de Irlanda del Norte en el contexto 5 Contested uRbAn hIstoRIes: soMe eMeRgIng theMes And APPRoAChes Historias urbanas iMPugnadas: aLgunos teMas y enfoques eMergentes 224 elKA WeinsTein “El Museo de la ciudad de Toronto 227 CHAO-CHieH Wu “ 235 sHreen MOHAMeD AMin “Los museos de las ciudades en Egipto como lugares del respeto humano 243 MAsAKAGe MurAnO “ 250 AlinA sAPrYKinA AnD liliA KrYsinA “ 253 JOnATHAn KelleY AnD CHelseA riDleY “ Lawndale biOGrAPHies biografÍas 260 6 frOM THe CAMOC CHAir JOAnA sOusA MOnTeirO 2016-2019 Presidente CAMOC, CAMOC is the Committee of Museums of Cities, one of the international 2016-2019 committees of ICOM, the International Council of Museums. Every year, we organise and present one international conference, as well as other special events on occasion. CAMOC has been organising a conference out of Europe every other year, as we do think and act globally and city museums are clearly growing in number and relevance in the whole world, from Australia to the north of Europe, from East Asia to Latin America. Te experience of holding a conference in Brazil, in the context of the ICOM General conference in Rio de Janeiro, in 2013, was important and fruitful. However, we were still lacking the Latin America Spanish-speaking countries. Mexico City was one of the favourite options, not only for being an impressive megalopolis with amazing heritage but also for portraying some disturbing contrasts. Tus, in 2017, CAMOC organised the annual conference and the second workshop of the ICOM Special Project “Migration:Cities / (Im)migration and arrival cities”. Te conference was made possible through the partnership between ICOM Mexico, the hosting Museo de las Culturas and a wonderful pool of speakers and collaborators. It must be stated that the CAMOC Mexico Conference was prepared under an especially adverse context: just a couple of weeks before the beginning of the conference, the country and district were terribly afected by a deadly earthquake. It took courage and perseverance from our partners, speakers and attendants to make it actually happen and be a success like it was. To all of them, I send my words of gratitude and admiration. One of our goals is to edit and release CAMOC conferences’ proceedings regularly, and thus to give access to its participants and to a wider group of readers, to the texts related to the conference presentations, creating a resource to the future. I want to thank all those who contributed to this publication and to express my special gratitude to the editor, Jelena Savic, who is also Secretary of CAMOC. 7 PersPeCTiVes On CiTies AnD THeir COnTesTeD urbAn HisTOries Editora del Libro de Actas About this publication In 2017, CAMOC dedicated its annual conference to rethinking contested histories in the museum context, thus joining the international recognition of the topic’s importance. Such importance was also refected on the theme of last year’s International Museum Day. Within this thematic framework, and in line with its aim – to be at the centre of the current debate on cities and urban living, CAMOC focused on the discussion of museums of cities and contested urban histories. Our forum took place in Mexico City, an exceptional urban environment that deeply resonated with this issue. Tis Book of Proceedings is the tangible outcome of our Mexico City meeting, containing 26 original texts which represent state-of-the-art refections on diferent aspects of contested urban histories worldwide, from very Mexico City to a number of other cities across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa. In order to promote the crucial debate on contested and traumatic urban histories and to involve more of those interested in city-related matters, for each text in this publication abstracts are provided both in English and Spanish; also, all texts by Spanish-speaking authors are made available in both languages. Te structure and the main themes Te structure of this Book of Proceedings corresponds to the thematic subdivision of the conference, and unfolds through fve chapters. Te frst chapter centres on Museums, Migration and Arrival Cities. Marco Barrera Bassols and Jesús Antonio Machuca RamÍrez rethink the issues of migration, borders and displacement of people, as well as cultural rights, by promoting the perspective of critical museology and museography within the Mexican context. Marlen Mouliou’s approach to the issue of migration is based on both scientifc and personal reference points and how they materialised in a project aimed at empowering refugee communities through museum-like activities. Joan Roca I Albert draws attention to a theme ofen neglected and underrepresented in many large cities’ histories – that of shanty towns, and shows how this matter has been addressed by Barcelona History Museum through the conversion of a former shanty town into one of the museum sites. Te theme of shanty towns has also been addressed as a part of an efort to illuminate the social reality of 20th-century Madrid, undertaken by the Museum of History of Madrid, and elaborated by Hortensia Barderas Alvarez. Te second chapter of this publication is dedicated to city museums’ approaches to the matters of urban memory. In the text by Joana Sousa Monteiro, Daniela Araújo and Rui Coelho, diverse new participatory methodologies and partnership possibilities undertaken by the Museum of Lisbon are presented, as a part of the Museum’s eforts to know the city’s population better, to acknowledge and integrate diverse migrant populations. Contesting and conficting aspects of urban history can be presented through sharing individual stories and displaying objects with 8 biographical narratives, allowing for the recognition of individual standpoints and a plurality of views. Tis approach has long been established in the Museum of Amsterdam; it helps create empathy and resonates well with the city’s super- diversity, as Annemarie de Wildt shows in her text on looking at Amsterdam lives. In Jennefer Nepinak and Clint Curle’s article, acknowledgement of Indigenous Peoples’ cultural memory is addressed as one of human rights. In their piece, the process of dialogue in the creation of the new Canadian Museum of Human Rights has been illuminated. Águeda Oliveira and Ana Gomes dedicate their text to the three city museums of Brasilia. Tese authors explore the origins and construction of a homogenous discourse on the city’s history, and the paradox of existence of a city museum preceding ofcial establishment of the city itself. On the other hand, Laura Acetta contemplates the relation of history and memory as a challenge for a newly established city museum and examines the possibilities of participatory methodologies as a base for the museum’s activities. Te following, third chapter is focused on the cities and cultures in confict. Sarah Henry examines the concept of a museum as a neutral forum to contemplate the inherently contested and controversial nature of a contemporary city. Tis author leads us through the logic of the new permanent exhibition in the Museum of the City of New York, which reveals conficts that have shaped the city and gives visitors an opportunity to envision and debate the city’s future. Cristina Miedico delves into the issues of the destruction of monuments as a strategic tool for wiping out urban memory and values, as well as refecting on the importance of museums as agents of peace.