The urgency of this intervention arises from the rapid erosion of local identity within the contemporary urban landscape, specifically under the pressures of gentrification and turistization. As a curator and researcher at the UAM Madrid, my voice is activated from the friction between academic discourse and the lived reality of communities facing cultural displacement. We are witnessing a systemic flattening of the city, where memory is often treated as an obstacle to profit rather than a foundational human right. This piece is a response to that flattening—a necessary rupture in the seamless narrative of urban progress. It addresses the "socioplastic" need to reshape our environments not through top-down mandates, but through the tactile, messy, and urgent demands of collective memory. By situating this work within the framework of the Human Rights and Culture Congress, we acknowledge that the right to a city is inextricably linked to the right to preserve one’s cultural ecology against the homogenizing forces of global capital. At the core of this project lies a process-based investigation into the material residues of the neighborhood—a method of "urban gleaning" that transforms discarded narratives into active socioplastic structures. The process begins with the systematic collection of oral histories and physical artifacts from sites slated for redevelopment. These elements are not merely archived; they are reconfigured into modular, mobile installations that drift through the city. This operational logic treats the artwork as a living organism: a series of translucent panels and soundscapes that mutate based on their physical proximity to the public. Each module functions as a sensory bridge, sequencing memories of local labor and domestic life into the very streets from which they are being erased. The work behaves as a feedback loop, where the material density of the past is layered over the sterile surfaces of the present, forcing a physical encounter with what has been made invisible.
