The proposal for the Memory Museum seeks to visualize and experience conflict and memory through a pedagogical journey aimed at healing, clarifying, and dignifying. It is conceived as a garden of hope, created by and for the victims: a space of silence and pause to reflect on the past and sow the future.

The project invites visitors on a ritual journey that weaves together the museum’s three core functions:

• Healing Function: recognizing and honoring the victims in a garden inaugurated by the affected communities and symbolically re-inaugurated by each visitor.
• Clarifying Function: through open and interconnected public spaces that foster free expression, diversity, and reflection.
• Pedagogical Function: through a varied journey connecting work, contemplation, and community encounters, from the ground level to a rooftop terrace that opens to the surrounding territory.

Visitors are called to ask themselves: Why did it happen? Why did we allow it? How can we ensure it never happens again?
Thus, the garden becomes a living narrative: an ongoing ritual where the silenced voices of the conflict find space to speak with dignity and respect.

The proposal envisions a cyclical pilgrimage, where life is reborn through the act of planting and caring. Beginning with an initial ceremony—where victims sow the first seeds—the project envisions an expanding network of green corridors that reconnect the garden with the broader territory, following the path of water from the hills to the sea.

Drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s concept of primordial images, the garden stands as a symbol of human longing for reconciliation and permanence—a mythical Eden.

In a country deeply marked by social, geographical, and historical fragmentation, the museum offers continuity through living voids, acknowledging both the short timescales of human experience and the longer rhythms of natural growth.
The ritual becomes the place. The garden becomes memory.