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This article is an overview of the historical and architectural study, as well as the practice of archiving Porto's public washhouses using sensitive cartography. The historical context of the study is presented, as well as the justification for studying the washhouses from the point of view of aesthetics, typologies and cultural heritage. In Porto, these fragments of women's work in various urban environments are abandoned and in ruins, despite the fact that they are still present in the memories of the inhabitants. This archive work is gradually being transformed into an artistic, self-ethnographic work of interpretation, mixing the personal and the public, but also serving as a basis for research into architecture and urban planning: how can we preserve the memory of washhouses? This work is part of the feminist historiography of recent years, which aims to recover the presence of working-class women and their history in the public space.
This article is an overview of the historical and architectural study, as well as the practice of archiving Porto's public washhouses using sensitive cartography. The historical context of the study is presented, as well as the justification for studying the washhouses from the point of view of aesthetics, typologies and cultural heritage. In Porto, these fragments of women's work in various urban environments are abandoned and in ruins, despite the fact that they are still present in the memories of the inhabitants. This archive work is gradually being transformed into an artistic, self-ethnographic work of interpretation, mixing the personal and the public, but also serving as a basis for research into architecture and urban planning: how can we preserve the memory of washhouses? This work is part of the feminist historiography of recent years, which aims to recover the presence of working-class women and their history in the public space.
An imprint of water infrastructures
Chloé Darmon (author)
2024
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
archive , women , public space , washhouses , mapping , Architecture , NA1-9428
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