Abstract

IBARRA, Macarena  and  BONOMO, Umberto. From the factory to housing protecting working class memory in the "Fábrica Central de Leche", Santiago de Chile. Apuntes [online]. 2012, vol.25, n.1, pp.40-61. ISSN 1657-9763.

This article concentrates in "Fábrica and Población Central de Leche", in Santiago de Chile, as spaces were industrial heritage displays its tangible and intangible dimension and considering the working class memory related to both its life in the factory and its domestic life. This case study is approached by considering the challenges of industrial heritage in Chile that goes from the state of researches around this topic, its own conceptual framework and the lack of normative agreements for its protection. The case of "Fábrica and Población Central de Leche" brings about three main clues that must be considered for strenghing the protection of industrial heritage, in its intangible dimension: scale, temporality and methodology. In this way, the article proposes to approach industrial heritage from an urban scale, further to the industrial premises; in a wider temporal dimension were memory plays a central role in order to recover the history related to those spaces; and with a methodology were different disciplines interplay in order to study and examine the value of this heritage.

Keywords : industrial heritage; intangible heritage; Cultural heritage; Collective memory.

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