An interactive, free-access digital platform presents, in different formats, stories about the Popular Memory Center.
Agustina Foster Ferrer, recently graduated from the Bachelor's Degree in Social Communication at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, created as a dissertation work an interactive, free-access digital platform that presents, from different formats, stories about the Popular Memory Center that operated in the building of the former Clandestine Detention Center Information Service between 2001 and 2010. .
The Popular Memory Center had the participation of different Human Rights organizations from the city and the provincial state. The platform developed by Foster Ferrer is called “Voices for Memory” and compiles the voices of those who were protagonists, narrating their story, the way they thought about this space, and the importance of the construction of memory as a collective task.
“Throughout my history I have been linked to Human Rights organizations, due to my personal history and my training. My mother was a political activist, so I was born in a house with the issue very present. I entered the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, I began to meet many people, and I was participating in the first Human Rights Commission there. There we managed to carry out the first search and identify the missing detainees who had attended the Faculty,” she recalled.
After completing all the subjects, Agustina began to work at the Human Rights Secretariat that had recently been formed in the Province of Santa Fe. “As a result of this work I began to have relationships with many people from the Human Rights Organizations. Humans and this deepened when the Popular Memory Center began to operate. In 2009, I returned to my degree to be able to carry out my thesis, I chose as a topic the tracing of representation strategies of the past around former clandestine detention centers, and I took the Information Service as my main topic.”
Ferrer Foster realizó entrevistas en profundidad a diferentes referentes de Organismos de Derechos Humanos para que le dieran voz al relato. “Por cuestiones de la vida, no pude finalizar este trabajo en ese momento. Recuerdo que las había grabado en cassettes, los cuales habían quedado guardados en un baúl de mi casa. Cuando el año pasado me reuní con María Soledad Casasola, quién fue en esta nueva oportunidad mi directora de tesina, le dij