Generational workshops in Brazil: between the socialization of the individual and its stories

This communication will focus on teaching / research / extension project, developed in the City of Londrina, in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil. In the context of this project, "Generational Workshops" are undertaken with the purpose of promoting the socialization of the narratives of the life experience of the elderly living in Londrina. The content enunciated by the elderly, enrich the historical formation of the local community and assist in the process of deconfining of this social group. The contemporary reality, especially in Latin American countries, has led a group of elderly people to isolation and, in many cases, the silencing of their narratives. In this sense, the creation of institutional devices capable of rescuing these subjects and their narratives, collaborates not only with the rescue of the human condition of these subjects, at the same time, cooperates with the (re) significance of their identities. The promotion of the project mobilized public institutions of the city: the State University of Londrina and the Municipal Secretariats of Education and the Elderly. The partners understood the need to create the institutional device "generational workshops" for the valorization of the history, memory, and narratives of those who built the history of the municipality with its symbolic and material repertoires. It organized from weekly meetings; the device had the participation of a group of 15 elderly people, who, weekly, contributed to the construction of a memorialistic collection. After a year of activity, we can affirm the value of spaces for memory sharing, as well as the importance of the library and librarians in sensitizing the community to the receptivity of memorialistic contents.

本研究聚焦于巴西南部巴拉那州隆德里纳市开发的教学、研究与推广项目。在本项目框架内，主办方开设代际工作坊（Generational Workshops），旨在推动隆德里纳市老年群体生活经验叙事的社会化传播。老年群体所讲述的内容，不仅丰富了当地社区的历史积淀，也助力该社会群体打破社会隔绝与边缘化状态。

当代社会现实，尤其是拉美国家的现状，使得大量老年群体陷入孤立境地，其人生叙事也常被湮没无声。在此背景下，搭建能够唤醒这些群体及其叙事的制度性载体，不仅有助于重塑这些个体的人文尊严，同时也助力其身份认同的（再）建构。

本项目的落地得到了当地公共机构的支持：隆德里纳州立大学（State University of Londrina）、市教育局与市老龄事务秘书处（Municipal Secretariats of Education and the Elderly）。合作方均认可搭建代际工作坊这一制度性载体的必要性，以此彰显那些以符号与物质叙事构建城市历史的群体的历史、记忆与叙事价值。

该工作坊以每周例会形式开展，共有15名老年参与者，他们每周共同参与构建一部纪念性作品集。经过一年的运营实践，我们可以确认，用于记忆分享的空间具有重要价值，同时也证实了图书馆与图书馆员在引导社区接纳纪念性内容方面的关键意义。