Hear Jamaica Pond a presentation by Qinqin Wu
Hear Jamaica Pond
WATCH VIDEO REEL HERE
People here are doing repetative activities regulary on the path around the pond
WATCH VIDEO REEL ON PEOPLE’S ACTIVITIES HERE
-Memory has a spatial location attached to the site with an object -Sensory experience and memory are both transitionary -People leave some memory here at the pond everytime -The repetitive activity might enhance the memory of the site expeirence
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Existing memorial artifacts are -detached from the pond’s path -suspend from people’s daily activities
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-exclusivly mention the elites and historical transition. -a frozen past is made for tourist pilgrim -The design did not consider the site environment might change
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However much our current concerns with memory may involve a displaced fear of the future, and however dubious the proposition may now strike us that we can learn form history, memory culture fulfill an important function in the current transformation of temporal experience that has followed in the wake of the new media’s impact on human perception and sensibility. Andread Huyssen, Present Past: Media, Politics , Amnesia
Mediated Cultural Heritage: experience the staged sound of past on site February 8, 1923: Tonight I fulfilled my vow to go skating. The weather being ideal, skated for several hours on Jamaica Pond. Only a small part, however, due to yesterday's snow, was available In addition the ice was rough and cracked in places, and several times, in trying to display my speed, came close to breaking a bone or two. It was uncomfortably crowded, too, it being the night of the annual municipal carnival. The fireworks and band concert went off without a hitch, and a couple of races were held.
Hear the Past of the Pond
walking
sound: narrative+sound effect
perception
IMMERSIVE STORY PACKAGE LOCATED TO THE POND
Hear Jamaica Pond
path
interactive story
engagement
the will to remeber
Indentify the Archives of Past, Recent past and Present
dancing and skating
1859
latern festival
carnival
1880
1919
1923
1990
2006
2014 people’s interpretation of the present could be transitionary, playful or fragmented
ice factory
skating
How does Hear Jamaica Pond Works 30 Seconds of Any Sound from Jamaica Pond Could Be Recorded and Uploaded. “Arriving at Green Street in little more than half an hour, we walked onto the Pond, where we found a crowd of people skating. 1855”
Locate Sound to Somewhere of Jamaica Pond.
“jamaica plain produce more than 5,000 tons of ice per day in 1874”
“fishing are jumping like crazy tonight” 2013.7.3
“Spring! ” 2014.4.24
“sunny branches”
+ document your story
2014.4.19
Explore the Jamaica Pond with Your Smartphone and Earphone.
Jamaica Pond
Hear Jamaica Pond
TRACE THE MEMORY of JP POND
YOU ARE PART OF THE HISTORY
How to Add a Story to Hear Jamaica Pond 30 Seconds of Any Sound from Jamaica Pond Could Be Recorded and Uploaded.
Locate Sound to Somewhere of Jamaica Pond.
Explore the Jamaica Pond with Your Smartphone and Earphone.
the story of skating carnival
A Poem about Jamaica Pond
the Jamaica Pond Album It could be applied to different purpose, catering to the need of different audiences and seeking collaborations with various organizations.
modes of exploration
public access
pond’s memory
your own memory
digging the past
explore the present
themed tour
horror story
poetic story
Jamaica Pond Poets
historical story
Jamaica Plain Historical Society
shuffle the story
There is too little and too much present---Lubbe’s argument about the shrinking extension of the present points to a great argument that : the more the present of advanced consumer capitalism prevails over the past and the future, sucking both into an expanding synchronous space, the weaker its grip on itself………
Andread Huyssen, Present Past: Media, Politics , Amnesia
Conservation is not the purpose, but the medium. It encourages people to go back to the site and engage with the stories which the memories are evoked from. It allows people to inspire and move each other personally and interllectually through empowering them of a new medium to express, communicate and explore perceptual capacities as human beings and the qualities of our urban habitat.
Hear Jamaica Pond