Transformación simbólica de los espacios urbanos de Quito. Estudio de caso las lavanderías públicas como proceso de cambio en la memoria histórica del ayer y hoy

Abstract

In this academic article an investigation is developed about the symbolic transformation of the urban areas of Quito. Taking as a case of study three public laundry stores from different neighbourhoods of the city such as: San Roque, Tambo del Inca and Nueva Aurora, these study objects as a process of change in the historic memory of yesterday and today. This topic is deployed into five different articles on: social memory, hidden tale of laundry cleaners; public space as legitimate or legal; symbolic transformations of space and society; orality and community environment; and communication as a tool for promoting social memory; these issues depending on the speech axis that allow the creation of the narrative. Communication is expressed as a strengthening exercise of social memory, something that goes beyond the transmission of knowledge in orality or gestality, analysed communication as a transformer involved in social processes, enriching and strengthening methods implemented in the neighbourhood, family and individual organization.