Individual and Collective Memory, an Artistic and Reflective Proposal with Members of the Community of San Martín Meta, Colombia

Abstract

This article exposes an artistic experiential proposal through creative thinking, reflective education, and the representation of individual memory as a link for the construction of collective memory with members of the community of San Martín, Meta, Colombia. To do this, the researchers considered the hermeneutic phenomenological method in four stages: preliminary, descriptive, structural, and interpretive. This was done through audiovisual awareness of an animated short along with a questionnaire that led to a process of subjective and group dialogic reflection. For their part, the results evidenced an interpretive process based on the past of the participants from individual and collective memory under a significant integrating perspective. This was configured through a process of symbolic creation, which generated a dialectical bridge between the participating community and universal audiovisual materials. Thus, through projects of this type, the researchers intend to encourage other academic institutions in the country to develop more artistic awareness projects through memory. Likewise, it is expected to continue with the project through visual narratives in a text that integrates the experiences lived in this place with the reflective needs still latent in the field of those who participated in this research proposal.