It will examine and work with distinct Lisbon's colonial sites of remembrance to debate about another future for memorials distinct from traditional objects, their materialism, aesthetics and iconography that still grant “victors” the sole authority to frame and fix the city's economy of remembrance. The project proposes collaborations between distinct forms of thinking from art practice to academic studies, from theory to practice, to:
- understand the complexities behind the culture of remembrance embed in Lisbon's urban spaces - from the 1933, when the dictatorship of "Estado Novo" begin, until today.
- find strategies on how to use Lisbon‘s statues, monuments, memorials, street names and botanical gardens, as stages, to debate how the city patrimony still highlights colonialism and how its nostalgia influences today's inequality and racism.
- disrupt, counter-monumentalize, create awareness and help to decolonize Lisbon's public spaces while introducing a new memorial paradigm.