COLLECTIVE MEMORY ARCHIVE
2023
4x4 meter drawing
The workshop is based on the idea that architecture and cartography is not only about measurable units, but is very much a subjective interpretation. We are all different from each other and therefore experience the world differently. Based on our surroundings, we create meaning and contexts. We sort out what we don't need and keep that in our memory which for one reason or another has made an impression.
We have created a Collective Memory Archive that will tell a story about Krabbesholm and which will replace the measurable reality with our subjective experience. The students have acted as cartographers and together created an archive of memories. A transformation which acts as a new understanding of a map.
The workshop consisted of several ‘acts’ that attributed to the collective memory archive information, which together formed a basis for a fragmented memory archive in constant change. A fragmented collection of memories from Krabbesholm. The narrative is based on very concrete spaces or elements and follows the sporadic and fragmented nature of memory.
All students' stories are finally compiled into a new city, a memories representation of Krabbesholm.
”(...)I argue that each of us carries around an architectural imaginary world constructed in our memory that is different, parallel and even compatible with the physical site. This everyday and ordinary occurrence makes us all architects and curators of our individual built and imagined worlds.”
- Shelly Hornstein
