Editing a publication that gathers and organizes the materials from the Vicus Albus Museum, a community-managed history museum located in Vicálvaro, one of Madrid’s most traditional working-class districts. Once an independent town before being incorporated into the city in 1951, Vicálvaro has a strong neighborhood identity shaped by decades of local activism, industrial labor, and collective organization. Almost entirely maintained by its founder, González Gálvez, the museum has since 1982 gathered over 400 objects and approximately 96,000 documents — tools from the old cementera, photographs of neighborhood festivals, school notebooks, municipal records, and hand-drawn maps.

Supported by the Community of Madrid’s Creation Grants (2022), Atlas de un Barrio gathers this extensive archive at a turning point: the founder’s retirement. The book functions as an artistic investigation into urban memory, tracing an ontology of everyday objects—from neighbor-collected documents to historical records—to rethink the neighborhood’s identity through a choral, self-managed narrative that resists institutional loss.