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A--D -- URBAN MEMORY CULTURAL CENTER

2025/04/18 00:00:00

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URBAN MEMORY CULTURAL CENTER MANIZALES, Colombia

Location: MANIZALES, Colombia

Category: education

Phase: under construction

Updated: 5 June 2025

The Memoria Urbana Cultural Center will be a space for popular education and community meeting, especially for youth groups, where collective work and training will be strengthened. Through workshops and cultural activities, it will promote the defense of human rights and the construction of peace. There, young people, women and children will be able to improve their skills and transform the territory.

Project leader: Fundación Comunitaria Huellas de Vida

What is still needed to proceed?

Finance Still 100% of € 58,000

Skills Stuff Hands Support

Introduction

The First Urban Memory Cultural Center of Manizales/Colombia will embrace the diverse practices, knowledge, and daily experiences of our Solferino neighborhood and Communes 5 and 12. It will be a space for social inclusion, strengthening neighborhood identity, memory, social bonds, and local capacities. Faced with low access to higher education, school dropout, high psychoactive substance use, social stigmatization, unemployment, and scarce institutional opportunities, our youth and adults live in an environment with limited chances for personal growth. The Cultural Center seeks to create an innovative space for popular and playful education, benefiting more than 18,000 residents — especially children, youth, and women — in one of the city’s most youthful communes. It aims to transform the perception of the territory by promoting citizenship, empowerment, and a strong sense of belonging through cultural, educational, and social activities that value local knowledge, support human rights, and encourage peacebuilding. The Center aspires to involve over 10,000 people in its early years, including families, children, young people, and social leaders, through workshops, cultural gatherings, and intergenerational dialogues. It will become an open-access space, a meeting point to dream, create, and transform the community’s future together.

Impact

The First Urban Memory Cultural Center of Manizales/Colombia will be created in the Solferino Neighborhood and Communes 5 and 12, with the goal of becoming a space for social inclusion. Its purpose is to strengthen neighborhood identity, collective memory, social fabric, and the development of capacities in a community facing challenges such as low access to higher education, school dropout, psychoactive substance use, social stigmatization, and unemployment. These issues, combined with limited institutional support, create an environment with few opportunities for the comprehensive development of youth and adults.

The Cultural Center aims to promote an innovative space for popular and playful education, benefiting more than 18,000 people, with a focus on youth and children. The initiative seeks to transform the perception of the territory by fostering citizenship building, the empowerment of youth, women, and children, and the recovery of a sense of belonging. Through workshops, cultural gatherings, and social activities, it will promote the defense of human rights and the construction of peace.

The project will engage over 10,000 people in its first years, including social leaders, families, children, and youth in training activities, job skills workshops, and intergenerational dialogue spaces. Its impact will be reflected in the creation of an open-access space that serves as a platform for dreaming and collectively transforming the community’s future.

Core team

The team leading the construction, where our desires for transformation, our indignations, and the courage to pave new paths, learned and shared over the past 5 years, converge. We are a team of rebellious young people from different professions who have sought escape spaces to commit to defending our community and building peace. Interdisciplinarily, we are committed to building this dream. Kevin in structural design, Felipe in strategic alliances with institutions, Roy in pedagogy and audiovisual media, Luis in law, and Estefania in writing and mediation. All of us, with our skills and capabilities, are committed to life, dreams, and the materialization of this project

Kevin López Rodriguez

Architect from the National University of Colombia, active member of the Huellas de Vida Community Foundation, and co-architectural designer of the project

Andres Felipe Marin

Social Worker from the University of Caldas, Specialist in Critical Pedagogy from the Latin American Center for Critical Thinking in Mexico and UCM, Social Manager, and Leader

Roy Alexander Coca Castrillón

Information Systems Technician from UAM, Family Development student (10th semester) at the University of Caldas, coterminal Master’s student in Social Justice and Peacebuilding, Communications Manager, and Social Leader

Estefania Franco Castiblanco

Social Work student at the University of Caldas, intern at the Huellas de Vida Community Foundation

Luis Tellez

Law student at the University of Caldas, student leader, precursor of the Popular Pre-College University in Quindío, and Legal Advisor

Image gallery

EVENTO DE "NOCHE DE AMOR CON HUMOR" EN EL AÑO 2015, DONDE HUMORISTAS DE COLOMBIA SE UNIERON A NUESTRA CAUSA PARA HACER REALIDAD LA COMPRA DE NUESTRO LOTE, AQUI NACE LA UTOPIA.

PRESENTACIÓN DE "NOCHE DE AMOR CON HUMOR" EN EL AUDITORIO DEL TEATRO FUNDADORES DE MANIZALES

"NOCHE DE AMOR CON HUMOR", SE LOGRÓ LLENAR TODO EL AUDITORIO DEL TEATRO FUNDADORES DE MANIZALES

CERRAMIENTO LOTE - COMUNIDAD

CERRAMIENTO DEL LOTE Y COSTALES DE LA TIERRA RECOGIDA JUNTO A LA COMUNIDAD

PRIMERA INTERVENCION COMUNITARIA DEL LOTE EN EL AÑO 2017, LEVANTANDO TIERRA Y CONSTRUYENDO EL SUEÑO

OLLA COMUNITARIA PARA LA JORNADA DE INTERVENCIÓN AL LOTE

JORNADA EXTENSA DE INTERVENCIÓN, RECOLECCION DE TIERRA EN LA NOCHE Y ASEO DE LA CARRETERA

SEGUNDA JORNADA DE INTERVENCIÓN, RECOLECCION DE TIERRA

TERCERA JORNADA DE INTERVENCIÓN, RECOLECCION DE TIERRA

TALLER CREATIVO CON NIÑOS DEL BARRIO

TALLER CREATIVO CON NIÑOS DE LA COMUNIDAD

REUNIÓN DEL EQUIPO DE ARQUITECTOS EN EL DISEÑO DE LA ESTRUCTURA INICIAL

DISEÑOS INFRAESTRUCTURALES INICIALES

JORNADA DE EMBELLECIMIENTO DEL PARQUE ENFRETE DEL LOTE, CONSTRUCCIÓN Y ADECAUCIÓN DEL PARQUE PARA NIÑOS HECHO EN GUADUAS

JORNADAS DE EMBELLECIMEINTO EN EL PARQUE, TRABAJO CONJUNTO CON NUESTROS NIÑOXS

ACTUALIDAD DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL LOTE, A PARTIR DEL AÑO 2025

Technical drawings

PLANOS

PLANOS

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PUERTA CORREDIZA, PARA EL RELACIONAMIENTO ENTRE EL ESPACIO PUBLICO Y PRIVADO

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PRIMER PISO, ESPACIO DE REUNIONES, GALERIA DE LA MEMORIA Y RECIBIMIENTO A NUESTROS VISITANTES

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SEGUNDO PISO, LUGAR DE LOS SERVICIOS DE BAÑO, COCINA E INTEGRACIÓN, JUNTO A LAS MESAS PARA EL ESPACIO DE TECNOLOGIA E INNOVACIÓN

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ESPACIO INTERIOR DEL TERCER PISO, CON AULAS DE ESTUDIO Y ESPACIO DE ESPARCIMIENTO

Where are we now

We have successfully completed the architectural and structural design of our Urban Memory Cultural Center and have a dedicated team for social, technical, and community management. We are currently beginning the first phase of the foundation, with a direct partner providing financial resources and building relationships with other potential partners for material resources. To complete the project, we need financial support, materials, and visibility to continue construction. Your collaboration is key to making this space for memory, culture, and the transformation of the neighborhood a reality.

An indication of our team’s capacity:

20% funding already raised

70% expertise already found

10% materials / equipment already found

60% builders already found

Finance: € 58,000

The Urban Memory Cultural Center is advancing with Phase 1 (58.268 €), focused on foundation work and led by a dedicated team. In the next 6 to 12 months, we expect to complete:

Foundation laying

First floor construction

Roofing

Installation of electricity and water systems

The space will serve as a multipurpose room for:

Movie nights

Artistic workshops

Memory gallery about our neighborhood

Urban gardening days

Popular education sessions

Games and gatherings with children and youth

A space to share, remember, and grow as a community.

Installation of durable and insulating roof 8,000

Wiring, outlets, lighting 5,000

Pipes, faucets, connection to public system 4,000

Payment to specialized workers 6,000

Costs of supervisors and technical staff 2,000

Safety equipment and protocols 2,000

Small tools and materials 3,000

Land preparation and laying the foundation 16,000

Materials and labor for the structure 12,000

Skills: PR & Marketing, Financial advice

We request funding to complete Phase 1 of the Urban Memory Cultural Center, including foundation work, first floor construction, roofing, and installation of electricity and water systems. This safe, multipurpose space is designed to strengthen the community. Public Relations and Marketing advisors will promote the center, encouraging citizen participation and spreading awareness of cultural and educational activities. Financial advisors will ensure transparent and efficient resource management, guaranteeing long - term sustainability. The center will host cultural events, educational workshops, and activities for children and youth, reinforcing neighborhood identity and social cohesion.

Stuff: Equipment & tools, Materials

Our project requires in-kind donations to support the construction of Phase 1 of the Urban Memory Cultural Center. We need construction materials such as cement, rebar, sand, and bricks for the foundation. We have a partner who lent us a concrete mixer, but we may require other machinery like an additional concrete mixer, concrete vibrators, scaffolding, and power tools (drills, saws) to facilitate the work. It is also essential to hire a specialized technical and operational team, including masons, electricians, and plumbers, to ensure quality and safety. These donations and resources are vital to advance the project efficiently and to high standards.

Hands

We are seeking volunteer masons, electricians, plumbers, and other specialists to support foundation work, first floor construction, roofing, and installation of electrical and water systems in Phase 1 of the Urban Memory Cultural Center. Their collaboration is essential to advance with quality and community commitment. Volunteers will receive certificates and official recognition through letters and formal documents and will be included in the construction memory book as a symbolic act. This book will be shared with all visitors, honoring their contribution to this social transformation and strengthening the sense of belonging.

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