Collective memory | Counter Memories Surfacing counter memories in New Rochelle
Runke Luo | Wanjiku Ngare
Collective memory | Co
Surfacing counter memor
Runke Luo | Wa
ounter Memories
ries in New Rochelle
njiku Ngare
“MEMORY is what has been, of acts of co abdicated - [which] affects th
------- Nobel Laure
“COLLECTIVE MEMORY is ho
------- Deli
ommission or omission, of a responsibility he future conduct of power.”
eate Wole Soyinka
ow groups remember the past.”
a Wendel
“I want to preserve the territory, I feel that our want there to be thriving Black communitie footnote in a Wikipedia page, we’ve a
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r [Black] Territory is being encroached upon. I es in New Rochelle. I don’t want us to be a always been here from the beginning.”
eslie Gasken
COUNTER MEMORIES are constituted by unacknowledged hist a more inclusive na
"Memory is seared through with emotion and personal feeling telling us something more than just facts. I'm talking here abou powerful conveyor of politics a
tories, told by marginalized sources, and are actively vigilant for arrative of the past.
g. It connects to others. It captures history in a particular way, ut memory not as something static; but something dynamic' a and affect." ------- Delia Wendel
Informed by the work of Dr. Delia Wendel, Assistant Professor of International Development and Urban Planning at MIT
I. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
II. RECOG
GNITION
III. REPAIR
I. ACKNOWLE Memory Containe
EDGEMENT: er & Pavilion
MEMORY CONTAINER
MEMORY PAVILION
gothic & peak
shed & flat
gabled & hip
gambrel & mansard
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CONTAINED: Memories within
Black Pasts, Presents, and FUTURES
Memory Patch Station
Black Pasts, Presents, and FUTURES
AUDIOBOX: I want to hear you Memory Patch Station
II.RECOGN Memorial s
NITION: system
MEMORIAL SYSTEM & ONLINE PLATFORM
HARNES
COUNTER M
SSING
MEMORIES
III.REPAIR
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