Best Practice no 3 : International (Colombia) Topic of “Rutas de la Memoria” the best practice Exact Medellin, Colombia. Location Memory Collective Memory type Since its foundation, in 1989, “La Corporación Región” has had as its work axis the investigation on urban conflicts, the damages and losses suffered by millions of people victims of unexpected and inexplicable deaths in the prolonged armed conflict in the country, the accompaniment to organizational processes and incidence in the public debate on the rights of victims and the promotion of peace-building initiatives. With this trajectory, “Mayo por la vida” was an opportunity to generate actions oriented to society, as we witnessed the weakening of our collective memory and the fragility of our memories, and as Restrepo states, “without the memory of suffering, the future becomes every increasingly fragile; without the memory of injustice, it is repeated in the present ” Way of The initiative is an exercise in living memory, where history, museology, art, expressio anthropology, architecture, pedagogy, life learning, inherited knowledge, set out n to understand the past, interpret the present and prefigure another memory in (Interven the future. tion Type) Senses Aesthetics illuminated the understanding and perception necessary for the mainly collective and shared production of senses, managing to capture the whole more activated than the parts, a vision necessary to connect the memory and the soul of social change. Impleme “La Corporación Región” conceived and carried out Memory Routes in 2013, ntation between May 20 and 24, and between September and November, in response to Date the invitation made in the framework of May for Life, a citizen initiative that included the support of the Mayor's Office of Medellín and which sought, through cultural events and support for grassroots initiatives, to mobilize and sensitize citizens about the fundamental value of life. 14