Valoración del centro histórico de Sitioviejo en el municipio de Titiribí-Antioquía como categoría de patrimonio industrial

Abstract

Sitioviejo historic center is one of the very few old Colombian mining complexes still standing with most of its physical and architectural features still in place, making it a benchmark of the country’s and region’s historical memory. Its legacy in the collective idea of society has been tangible and intangible evidence of the social, technological, and economic development on the region for many centuries, turning it into a geological, industrial, and mining heritage site given its interactions with natural, urban-architectural, cultural and social appropriation contexts. From a methodological point of view, an integral and holistic view of the cultural heritage is proposed, aligned with the essential values associated with the three categories already described. The process has included research and critical examination of multiple primary and documental sources, physical space field surveys, interviews with ex mine workers and older locals, innovation workshops, creation and re-creation of memory and collective ideas of the community and neighbors to create a sense of identity and determine the shared values based on heritage as a resource and commodity that society can embrace. The main goal of this investigation is focused around the assessment of the historic, archaeological, urban and architectonic complex of ‘Sitioviejo’ in Titiribi, Antioquia, in the industrial heritage category as well as the acknowledgement of its influence supported in the thesis of industrial heritage as an embracing, complex and multidimensional category, and on the basis of promoting a viewpoint which considers historic, contextual-territorial, socio-cultural, technological, urban-architectural and scientific values.