Policies related to pubic space are interlinked with the struggle over narratives and symbols attached to certain places. The last three years require a serious discussion about the mechanisms of creating and recreating these narratives, and our roles in the production, and consumption, of memory. In the mean times, there is a need to for an understanding of the historicization of the last three years of the revolution and the attachment of their memory to certain places to the extent of elevating these places to the position of the witness on the path of social and political protest. Additionally, the state's continuous competition in creating its own - both historical and spatial - narratives.

The role of documentation and archiving is paramount in creating places for the conscious and the memory - it is a form of resistance in itself. It helps in preserving the conscience and the memory, and in maintaining the possibility and the hope for accountability in the future.

In this session, we discuss the struggle over the narratives of the revolution and the manufacturing of related collective memory, and we explore a number of projects focused on documentation and related to place and memory.

Speakers:
Aya Nassar, a teaching assistant at Cairo University
Abdou El-bermawy, a research consultant at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights - المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية
Mosaab El-Shamy, freelance photojournalist
Rawya Sadek, a visual artist and a freelance translator
Alia Mossallam, a researcher in social history
Mayssan Hassan, programs director at Women and Memory Forum - مؤسسة المرأة والذاكرة

The seminar is a part of a series called "Public Space Revolutionized" organized by the Right to the City and Public Space group and hosted by the EIPR (Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights).