A Mambembe Museum of Image and Sound as an interactive exercise between the synchrony and diachrony of public spaces in Campos dos Goytacazes

Abstract

Based on the assumption that Extension Projects aim at the social role of universities, this Project was designed by participants working with different methodologies in the field of History: in archival and bibliographic research. The initial research aimed at building and disseminating a catalog of radio production by Rádio Cultura de Campos. An analysis of the sound material was undertaken in order to recognize modernizing projects in Brazil in the early twentieth century, observing elements that characterized the Political Culture of the 1930s, under Getúlio Vargas: nationalist and industrializing politicies in Brazil. The collection of Rádio Cultura returned to the streets of the City through a small radio that reproduced a model from the 1930s, but with current technological resources such as “USB port”. Our work is based on interactive methodology consisting of updating the joint analysis of the research process and its results. With the approval of the UFF Extension Program, it received a scholarship holder and more volunteers. We then set up a dismountable structure and our mambembe Volante Museum emerged. The extension project was joined by scientific initiation research and academic monographs.