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1 EDITORIAL COVER PICTURE A performed by our network following a didactic approach while always meeting the academic rigour. Observing Memories The Berlin Wall Memorial in pursues one of our objectives: to foster generational and participatory interaction in memory processes. These processes Director Bernauer strasse, northern enrich, strengthen and provide values to the diversity of European citizenry, which passed through the 20th century Jordi Guixé i Coromines Berlin. Image taken through the facing political violence, war conflicts and dictatorships. Despite those handicaps, European citizens were wise enough wall, displaying part of the “dead to build spaces of democracy and common values based on the victories against fascism and injustices, on the fights to zone”/ EUROM achieve wiser and freer societies. To understand memory as a civic tool, as well as an essential part of European policies, Credits Observing Memories Magazine of the European Observatory on Memories fter the publication of EUROM’s first book, Past and Power: public policies on memory. Debates, from global University of Barcelona’s Solidarity Foundation to local (Edicions UB, 2016), it is my honour to introduce the first issue of our electronic magazine: Observing Memories. This publication aims to regularly reflect the transnational, multidisciplinary and active work First issue: November, 2017 Editor Ricard Conesa is fundamental to face the complex crisis experienced by the continent. A united Europe that may seem ahistorical in its post-war and pacifist foundational values, otherwise necessary to pamper, care for and promote without fail the Communication and visual identity policies of memory. These common values of education and understanding of the present are found in the processes of Fernanda Zanuzzi representation and past recovery, the dignity of the victims, and the sites of remembrance. These are the reasons behind the creation of our e-magazine: to observe, compare, analyse, interact, learn, create, disclose, act, question. These are Graphic design necessary practices in the memorial exchange of the 21st Century. The local becomes global if it is transnational and Jorge Penny intertwined with different experiences from very different places, but also from contemporary and many times similar processes. T Editoral Board he in-depth articles at the beginning of the publication have been performed by experts with a wide experience Xavier López, Oriol López, in the critical and analytical thinking of memorial processes. James E. Young describes the interactions among Núria Ricart, Fernando Hernández memory and public space through a bold and brilliant relation of Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews and the 9/11 Tribute Museum at the Ground 0 in New York. Moreover Henry Rousso offers us an interesting reflection on the Advisory Board role that the past plays in the present, and the new challenges involved by the management of memories in the future of James E. Young, Siobhan Kattago, Marcello Flores, Kaja Europe. We can also find in this edition an interview to the sociologist Elisabeth Jelin, who offers us a panoramic view on Širok, Elizabeth Lira, Georges Mink, Enzo Traverso, Martí the evolution of the studies on memory and its current stauts. Through different shorter articles, we also wanted to show Grau, Matilde Eiroa, Stefanie Endlich and analyse conflictive issues such as the presence of symbols of the German dictatorship in the public space (addressed by the Professor Stefanie Endlich); the building of memorials dedicated to the international brigade members in the United Contact States of America (by Marina Garde); or a personal view on the role of oblivion, memory and [email protected] history after the catastrophe (Pavel Tychtl). The story and narrative of the witnesses, public c/ Melcior de Palau, 140 politics at a European level, the interaction of art, memory and audio-visual, as well as the 080014 - Barcelona contributions of new institutions have been addressed through the interview to Constanze [phone] Itzel, Head of the ambitious House of the European History; the reorganization of a Portuguese political prison into the new Aljube Museum, Resistance and Freedom, in www.europeanmemories.net/magazine an article written by its manager Luis Farinha; or a review on the National Museum of @euromemories African American History and Culture written by Zina Precht-Rodríguez, a Columbia University student and EUROM fellow in summer 2017. With the digital format, we also want to include audio-visual projects and proposals, such as in this case, the documentary by Carolina Astudillo on torture, “The unspeakable”, together with a review by Laia Quílez. We hope the reader, either expert or novice, will enjoy these pages that consolidate Jordi Guixé and strengthen our network, a horizontal platform dedicated to the analysis and the permanent Director activation of politics, projects and memory-related activities. Enjoy the reading! Observing Memories ISSUE 1 2 Observing Memories ISSUE 1 3