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This paper seeks to make a preliminary reflection on the memory paths originated from facing the environmental catastrophe occurred in the districts of Bento Rodrigues, Paracatu de Baixo and Paracatu de Cima, located in Mariana, Minas Gerais, in November 2015. Through the traumatic experience of the disaster, the destruction of the villages, covered with toxic mud, how the citizens socially construct space and time? The main form of struggle of the affected cities' residents is the acts of memory, as they call them: texts, videos, newspapers, profiles and websites, which represent a way of speech (expression, communication) to those who did not suffer the trauma. As well as a form to reach the public sphere, so they can incorporate their narratives silenced by the action of the company responsible which does not recognize most of these citizens as victims of the disaster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the memory project organized by Aarão Reis when he led the New Minas Gerais State Capital Building Commission. The term memory project seeks to identify the interest and effort in constructing and preserving a given meaning of the present, for future generations, which manifested itself in a careful archiving and monumentalization of all sorts of remains capable of recording the importance of that event for history. The project directed its attention specifically to the instruments and supports that based the form of representation of temporal experience of individuals. In this particular case, three elements stand out: the preservationist interest, monumentalist interest, and the association of the images of Aarão Reis and Belo Horizonte. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]