Heritage education, black memory, and football are the topics covered in the first three editions of the Patrimoniar podcast, which the USP Centro de Preservação Cultural recently launched, aimed at reflection and action on cultural heritage.
Each program will offer listeners a conversation with researchers, professionals, and activists on emerging themes and public issues linked to cultural heritage, places, buildings, memories, affections, and practices that make up our identities and memories. The programme is produced monthly by Eduardo Kishimoto and Gabriel Fernandes from the CPC-USP team.
The Patrimoniar series can be accessed via the CPC website and the main digital content aggregators, such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts.
The podcast format is a digital resource for transmitting content that has been very popular in the US for at least a decade. In Brazil, there has been a significant increase in public interest in recent years, especially during the covid-19 pandemic, and today it is a resource widely used not only by traditional media but also by public institutions, museums, and cultural organisations.
Produced in the form of a chat or an interview, according to Gabriel Fernandes, the project’s coordinator, the programs will allow the CPC to promote ‘the lighter, more relaxed extroversion of university knowledge’.
In addition to the podcast, the CPC maintains a Youtube channel with recordings of the main events held and special productions.
For Flávia Brito do Nascimento, director of the CPC, the qualified occupation of different spaces and electronic platforms is fundamental for the realisation of an adequate, far-reaching university culture and extension policy, broadening the scope of discussion on the numerous issues related to heritage preservation and constituting yet another resource for the dissemination of and debate on cultural heritage.
Episodes
Patrimoniar #1
O projeto interação e a educação patrimonial
(The interaction project and heritage education)
In this first episode, João Lorandi Demarchi, a PhD candidate in Education at USP, comments on the Projeto Interação (Interaction Project), a pioneering initiative in understanding heritage education from a critical, progressive, and popular perspective.
Patrimoniar #02
Memória negra no Bexiga
(Black memory in Bexiga)
A conversation with journalist, activist, master in architecture and urbanism, and researcher Gisele Brito about the recent threats to black presence and memory in São Paulo’s Bixiga neighborhood as a result of work on Line 6-Orange of the metro. Highlighting the Saracura/Vai-Vai movement and the right to an anti-racist city.
Patrimoniar #03
Futebol e patrimônio cultural
(Football and cultural heritage)
More than just a sport, football in Brazil is a popular cultural practice that mobilizes affections, memories, identities, and places. In the context of the World Cup, geographers and researchers Alberto Luiz dos Santos and Rodrigo Accioly Almeida talk about this practice that says so much about Brazilian identity.
Translated by Lara Yoshime Shizuko Fukushima.