Heritage and participation for the historical reconstruction of a working-class village in the Buenos Aires province, Argentina

An analysis of an experience carried out within the framework of the National Week of Science and Technology (Argentina) is presented here. It is a workshop that addressed the case of a working-class village that existed between 1940 and 1980 in the vicinity of the Calera Avellaneda S.A. factory. Its disappearance is an example of the process of increasing industrialization of the modern world and of the vulnerable situation in which industrial heritage finds itself. In 2019, starting from the workshop Photography: emotional memory and reconstruction of the past. The case of the working class village von Bernard ”proposed to its former inhabitants the socialization of photographs that recall their life in that town. The results obtained allow participatory addressing of issues related to particular ways of perceiving said heritage by this community of belonging.