Pasigueños may now actively participate in immortalizing local history by sharing their personal photos and narratives about Pasig City through the digital crowdsourcing website, Memorya.
Pasig Memorya, which will be formally launched on Monday, Aug. 29, aims to preserve a multi-layered collective history of the city through the various perspectives of its people, and instill within each citizen a stronger Pasigueño identity.
Citizens are encouraged to upload old pictures – the older, the better – of the city, and tell the stories behind them in the online portal.
The project is spearheaded and implemented by the Pasig City Museum.
“Ang proyektong ito ay napapanahon dahil mahalagang malaman ng mga kabataang Pasigueño ang mga mahahalagang impormasyon at alaala tungkol sa kanilang lugar na pinagmulan (This project is timely because it is essential for our youth to know the history of the city they are from or born in)” the museum’s statement read.
It was made possible in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Philippines, and Grupo Kalinangan, a non-profit organization that specializes in cultural heritage preservation and management.
The Pasig Memory website may be accessed through this link: https://memorya.pasigcity.gov.ph.
The guidelines on uploading and viewing photos in the portal may be viewed on the Pasig City Museum Facebook page.
Cultural Mapping Project
Pasig Memorya is part of Pasig City’s Cultural Mapping Project, a multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at “using local culture and heritage as drivers for sustainable economic growth.”
Last March 2022, Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto held a virtual meeting with the City Council Committee for Culture and the Arts and Pasigueño historians regarding the mapping project.
The local government resumed the project in 2022 after being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The first phase of the mapping project concluded on July 28.
An initial inventory of the city’s “cultural properties” was completed, and a “local cultural profile” was identified through a series of surveying, fieldwork and validation activities, according to Grupo Kalinangan.
The group made use of the cultural mapping application, Mobile Heritage Online (MoHOn), which they developed.
The application aided the project in data collection, in compliance with the guidelines of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts Office (NCCA) cultural mapping toolkit.