In this project we worked with emotional health and family memory. It considered collective
memory and conscience about how history and post-memory build the subjectivity of each one of
us. Students fully participated and influenced in all the stages of the project.
They recognized how empathic understanding can connect different generations and different
cultures.
Through these personal, human, memory-based reflections on history students identified the
strengths and the importance of individual and collective memory for their identity construction.

This art project improved students empathic feelings about their family memories and their sense of
identity. As all students were girls they used in some cases grandmothers, In others
mothers memories. It also improved their sense of group connection by sharing something
very personal. But also opened questions as: How do we make meaning from the past? In which
ways are family memories connected with community, cultural and human experience? How
might a personal story impact our understandings of history?

February 28, 2018.



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