(Word the parking spots in the city, where a wide audience had the opportunity to limit: 700 interact and weave stories from memory. words) To achieve this purpose, careful and deep listening was essential, understood as “the art of connecting and finding the essence” (Lederach, 2007, p. 114). This was the fundamental task of artists, from their practice of relational art, a device for social transformation. This approach involves a collective and participatory process of creation, and then of active interaction with the public, hence the conversation becomes an important pedagogical resource in this experience. The allusion to the living metaphor, understood as the creator of meaning, caused a turn that favored the imagination, liberation from repetitive memory, opening to a sense of humanity, of solidarity. Together, it was understood that life, death, hope, and pain are communicable to others in the transcendence of the metaphor, since "it carries an emotional value through which it says something new about reality" (Ricoeur, 1975, p. 148). In this case, the curatorship, rather than doing an expert exercise in validating the truth, acted as a bridge and translator, allowing individual creation, while continuing to be so, to enrich itself with the contributions of all and become a collective work. Represen See interactive document in this this link to the end of the page tative https://www.region.org.co/index.php/revista58/tejiendo-sentidos/item/325- material rutas-de-la-memoria-un-ejercicio-de-memoria-colectiva (photos, videos, https://youtu.be/IC8GOhj3DqE links) https://youtu.be/9GSNhQrdU0o 16