With the idea of bringing together the most diverse perspectives on the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus, the #MemóriasCovid19 platform began collecting personal testimonies about subjective and individual experiences of isolation. The project is coordinated by Unicamp researcher Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim Maciel and is curated by researchers from nine Brazilian institutions, as well as France and Portugal. Reports will be evaluated in different formats, such as texts, photos, videos and illustrations, and must be sent by filling out the form on the link https://forms.gle/CjrYdaZKnFbMuY7a6.
Professor Ana Carolina highlights that the idea came from the question of what the impact of this pandemic experience is being in individual terms and also how this moment will be understood by History. “The idea for this platform came right when isolation began. History is sometimes mistakenly understood as a linear process. However, certain historical moments, generally crisis contexts, changed their paradigms. In this sense, collective traumas - such as major wars - shaped new perceptions of historical narratives and also of how we conceive our notions of individuals, events and their narratives. That’s what pushed me to reflect on this great crisis we’re going through,” she says.
For her, we are facing a new horizon of expectations and the psychic effects that this will leave us “will change the way we deal with the past and, in the same proportion, how we deal with the future, or with our illusion of what the future would be.” Thus, the platform will make it possible to cross individual itineraries by sharing insights that go beyond objective, factual or quantitative data.
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Reports can be expressed in different formats: photographs, videos, texts, audios, drawings, selfies, videos, objects of affection, or any expression that symbolizes perceptions, in times of isolation. “We are experiencing an unprecedented event in our lives and which is perceived according to subjective aspects. What is your look, what is your expression, what would this moment symbolize for you? It is precisely such plural approaches that we intend to achieve with the Platform”, says Ana Carolina.
The material received will be evaluated and the selected testimonies will be published on the #MemóriasCovid19 Platform. The curatorial committee brings together researchers from various educational institutions in the country, representatives of social movements and European institutions. The project also includes a team of students from the Multimeios program and LABJOR.
The development of the platform is under the responsibility of a daughter company of UNICAMP, Atria Jr from the Limeira (SP) campus.
To find out more, follow the project's social media, on Instagram e Facebook: @memoriasCovid19
