Every Friday from 6 to 8 in the evening, we open a space in the Bellvitge-El Gornal Cultural Center dedicated to recovering the memory of the shantytowns of L’Hospitalet. We are starting this History Workshop focusing on the neighborhood of la Bomba. If you want to contribute your testimony and collaborate in writing a history of the informal city in L’Hospitalet, stop by the Cultural Center (Plaça de la Cultura, 1 de Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet).
Why recover the memory of the shacks?
The history of shantytowns has been repeatedly omitted for decades; this has long been considered an irrelevant as well as embarrassing episode of a very distant past that we should forget. However, we can understand the history of the shacks as a history of struggle for dignity led by the most vulnerable social groups and at the same time recognize the value of men and women who contributed significantly to building the city we inhabit today.
What is a History Workshop?
History workshops appeared in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s as a movement promoted by Ruskin College Oxford, which proposed to democratize History and give rise to a history written ‘from below’, by the people. The History Workshop is a meeting place to think about and write history together.
