BENVGBU3 Individual Design Response
MEMORIES AND THE FUTURE MEGA PRIMATAMA The conflict that happening in Medellin and Beirut was devastating and yet leaves a huge scar for both citizens. On recent days, both cities starting to left what was their city and move to the future, with the development of infrastructure and transportation, but the past identity that left the city in segregated areas is still on concern, even it was brought by the new type of border making. This intervention on design will be connecting the different levels of both cities through the creation of public spaces. The intervention itself will encourage people to understand what their past was, where they are now, and introducing the future without borders to integrate people with different backgrounds. The design response will be brought by creating a sculpture on the significant locations that showing the past, present, and the future of the city through the work art. By building the memorial on where the background of border making practices happened or when the history happens, it could reach the commemoration of the past, and the hope for the future to create the better relationship on the citizen level and also interparty level. By activating public space as the place for the memorial, it can build the integration of the society through building resilience and trust. The memorials and its public space will be provided and build by the public and private sectors. The visitors will be usually people from the segregated neighborhood that come together and use the public place where the memorial standing. The significant locations on both sites will be measured by the significance of the place itself that reflects the border making practices such as where the people segregated and where the significant incidents related to the city’s bitter past.