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The weavers of memories (I)
Is the archive an intrinsically passive space, condemned to the mere collection and preservation of past remains? Or can it be a proactive entity?
These questions, which have apparently been answered in the affirmative, both in theory and in practice, in the field of social and humanistic disciplines, do not seem to have been answered so clearly in the natural sciences. At least that was the feeling I had when I started working at the Charles Darwin Research Station, a privileged research space located in the Galapagos Islands and managed by the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF). There I took charge, among other areas, of the scientific archive: a collection with unique contents, relatively well preserved despite the adverse climatic conditions prevailing in the area, and largely ignored by the researchers working at the Station: a multicultural group of academics belonging to various branches of the natural sciences, and leaders in their respective specialties at the international level.
Articles
Notas desde el páramo [Notes from the wilderness]
Agenda Cultural UdeA, 308, May.2023, pp. 11-15.
A short essay, in Spanish, about the importance of language in rural territories, written by a librarian from the Chingaza páramo, near Bogotá (Colombia).
Other publications
Marine Iguanas: Between Land and Sea
This document, dedicated to the marine iguanas of the Galapagos Islands, combines a series of photographs by British researcher Godfrey Merlen, preserved as slides in the audiovisual collection of the Library, Archives & Museum of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands (CDF), with a selection of historical texts on the archipelago that are part of the "Historical Bibliography" of the Galapagueana digital project. The book is part of the "Galapagos Memory" series, published in digital format from the CDF library.