Liberia Memorialization Project The People’s Memorial: Remember and Retell
LiberiaMemorialization
Project
The People’s Memorial:Remember and Retell
Digital MediaMemorialization
• Using databases to show context and linkage (through linked and webbed design)
• Dynamic Stories that are scalable and generated by algorithms
• Creating individual and group spaces that promote repeated updates (using Moses and other tools)
• Vastness (of browsable content and in visualization.)
• Print out and create physical memorials
• Promote memory and context
• Promote identity
• Navigation by Memory or by Story
• Palimpsest
Searching and Browsing
• Promote individual memory by searching by name
• Browse by region or village (main organization)
• Browse by memorial site or event
• Show links to other events, geography and timeline
• Print out to create physical memorials for village, site, or country
The typographic crosswalks were installed in May 2007 at four locations by the ad agency DraftFCB Lisbon for the advocacy group Associação de Cidadãos Auto-Mobilizados with support from Liberty Insurance and JC Decaux. The action generated a bit of media attention to the issue during “Safe Street Week.”
In the Concorde station of the Paris Métro, the tunnel for line 12 is decorated with tiles spelling out the text of the Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, a foundational document of the French Revolution
Non Virtual Memorials
• Print out by region, village, or memorial site
• Print outs are pre-designed and formatted
• Can be stencils or Low Tech
• Print outs can be permanent - print out to a metal or plastic fabricator device for attachment to wood or concrete
• Print out a family history or web
• Print out an individual memorial
• The List of Names as memorial
Markus Dochantschi: 911 submission
Web of relationsIndividuals, village, nation
Personalization and individual stakeholders
• Encourage individuals to update info• Encourage individuals to add video
commentary• Memorial turns into a personal and
family history site to encourage interaction over time
• Add photos and links
Vietnam Online Memorial
9/9/09 12:32 AMRonald Babcock, 1LT, Army, Tucson AZ, 27Feb71 04W008 - The Virtual Wall®
Page 1 of 5http://www.virtualwall.org/db/BabcockRL01a.htm
Submit an Addendum to this Memorial
Ronald Lester Babcock
First LieutenantB TRP, 7TH SQDN, 1ST CAVALRY, 1 AVN BDE
Army of the United States08 October 1945 - 27 February 1971
Tucson, ArizonaPanel 04W Line 008
The database page for Ronald Lester Babcock
17 Jun 2003
Ron, I have a rubbing of your name on the Wall inWashington. Little did we know when we were in flight schooltogether what the future would bring. I think of you often and
The Memorial as a living document
• Family and individual history can be updated by the individual or institutions
• Persistent use of genealogy by liberians and the Diaspora
• Connection to a timeline
• Add video records to documentation
• Add personal stories and photos
Spontaneous Memorialization
• Non-digital memory
• Memorial creation and recreation
• Rituals
• Creation of personalized oral narratives as a memorial
• Memorial events and anniversaries
Ready Made Memorials
Navigation by story
• Interactive - Video and multimedia can be navigated through web linkages (see example)
• Passive - video can be selected by type and dynamically generate a short film
Story Generator Scrub
• Adjust by area• Add documentary footage• Adjust length• Add photos• Adjust dates
Text design examples
Thank you
Chris Burden The other Vietnam Memorial