With the intention of founding a space for memory and
reflection, the Fundación Memoria Histórica
y Social Argentina proposed in 1991 the creation of
a forest in commemoration of the victims of State terrorism.
The landscape project was developed by the Foundation
and Memoria Abierta, Acción Coordinada de Organismos
de Derechos Humanos, and proposed in 2003 to the Secretary
of Production, Tourism, and Sustainable Development
of the City Government of Buenos Aires.
Finally, the Sub-secretary of the Environment, through
the Program of Participative Design, proposed to destine
six of the forty hectors corresponding to the recuperation
of the urban environment of the Indo-American Park
in the south of the City to the Walk of Human Rights.
The design was agreed upon by neighbours and consists
of the creation of 20 small mountains with twenty
trees on each one as a tribute to different groups
of people that disappeared during the last military
dictatorship in Argentina.
The 20 mountains, a plaza of reflection and the paths
that connect each part comprise the Walk of Human
Rights: a space for community, a space for tribute
to the 30,000 disappeared.