Street Art in Aveiro: City Walls as Dialogic Spaces of Collective Memories and Identity

In urban centers around the world, street art has become an unavoidable element of landscape. Located in west-central Portugal, Aveiro is no exception to this trend, and form been used enhance cultural vibrancy a place where tourism one most important economic pillars. Seeking look beyond value as product, by combining observations photos from field research with bibliographic documental data, well residents’ responses on social media, paper adopts autoethnographic approach offer exploratory, (self-)reflexive perspective how evolved into phenomenon that contributed locals’ identity (re)construction. Drawing Jan Assmann’s memory theory, it argued can be understood communicative memory, ephemeral vehicle our history, knowledge, traditions practices, that, retelling story who we are, stimulates awareness selfhood feeling belonging community.