The work began with partial traces and signs that were revealed to us by the city in a variety of primary and secondary sources such as maps, drawings, paintings, photographs and even texts. It involves the retrospective vision of the city of the past, which started with the study of several layers that had formed in the urban system in question; which leads to a work that is primarily stratigraphic and archeological. According to Agamben, "we can provisionally refer to as "archeology" that practice which, in all historical investigations, rather than considering the origin considers the emergence of a phenomenon and should, for this reason, face again the sources and tradition" Agamben, 2010. In this context, and in hopes of identifying the problem, we have superimposed several inventory maps of the city of Santiago throughout its history7.
Se trata de una visión retrospectiva de la ciudad del pasado, que parte del estudio de las distintas capas que han sedimentado en el sistema urbano en cuestión; lo que conduce a un trabajo principalmente estratigráfico y arqueológico. Según Agamben, "podemos llamar provisoriamente 'arqueología' a aquella práctica que, en toda indagación histórica, trata no con el origen sino con la emergencia del fenómeno y debe, por eso, enfrentarse de nuevo con las fuentes y con la tradición" Agamben, 2010. En este contexto y en el horizonte de identificar el problema, hemos superpuesto varios planos del inventario de la ciudad de Santiago a lo largo de su historia8.