Desenhando Memórias em Espaços Solidários: um registro de emoções no abrigo de idosos Vila Vicentina

The article proposes reflections on interdisciplinary relationships that consider space, emotion and memory. It explores aspects of design’s cultural influence and social responsibility, possibilities for dialogue with other areas of knowledge, and the ability to weave relationships between knowledge. A creative project experience in the field of Social Design is set in motion, whose theoretical principles and methodological practices underlie a photographic essay. The unique experience resulted in the book “Old memories, memories of life”, inspired by the affective reports of fourteen elderly people housed in Vila Vicentina, a space of ‘a solidarity happening’. Although displaced from their origins, the sense of reality is not lost and the new space becomes definitive for reminiscences of the past to live with the present and propose a look to the future.