OIC_SESSION 13
11-06-2026 [new date]

The micro-narrative: innovative methodologies and practices in heritage interpretation

Session Proponent:
Fabiana Dicuonzo (CITCEM/Education and Societal Challenges – ORCID 0000-0002-4247-0225)

Summary of the session:
How can micro-narratives generate interdisciplinary methodologies for the study, analysis and interpretation of heritage? This workshop aims to investigate the concept of micro-narrative within the framework of the doctoral projects of three researchers, whose disciplinary areas – museology, architecture and visual arts – are not conceived as autonomous and closed domains, but rather as expanding fields, crossed by a methodological dialog of an interdisciplinary nature. This approach gives rise to experimental practices aimed at analyzing heritage, both material and immaterial, historical and contemporary, through the involvement of the micro-voices that constitute its deep structure. Adopting art and practice-based research, in this workshop the three investigations propose the micro-narrative as a critical reading key to understanding society, both in its historical and contemporary dimensions, and to imagining possible future scenarios, through differentiated languages. Inspired by the Augustinian conception of time – articulated in the three presents: the past (memory), the present (perception) and the future (hope) – these investigations assume a “misaligned” temporality, where past, present and future are not presented as separate entities, but coexist subjectively in a complex and dynamic relationship, in which time is transformed into a participatory process of reconstructing the meanings of the present. Through distinct but convergent approaches, the three investigations propose to build interpretative tools capable of addressing specific micro-themes as analytical keys applicable to broader issues, restoring to heritage a plurality of voices and meanings that are often marginalized.

Communications:
Fabiana Dicuonzo (CITCEM/FLUP) – Microcosm of the Meeting: Methodological Approaches to the Museum as a Public Space

Fernando P. Ferreira (Space Transcribers) – Factory as memory: Weaving affective stories

Juliana Wexel (Center for Research in Arts and Communication, University of Algarve) – Who is born first: myth or poet?

Moderators-commentators of the session:
Proposed by the proposers: Giuseppe Resta (CEAU, FAUP, U.Porto – ORCID 0000-0001-8489-5291)

Appointed by the CITCEM Executive Committee: Maria Manuela Restivo (CRIA – Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia – Ciência ID 2D15-251D-F76B)

Face-to-face (FLUP, Meeting Room 2, Floor 2) [new location] | 14h30
Organization: Carla Sequeira (People, Markets and Policies), Joana Lencart (Sociabilities and Religious Practices)

See the program here