Recollection

What is the relationship between memory and place? Our past experiences have a significant role in how they stretch into the present time.

This research uses personal experiences with the city of Brno as a foundation to discuss remembering places from the past and further how can memory of an architectural space be used as a new form of reconstruction. Using memory-images of specific places as the focus area for exploring the variations of technology and media for communicating memory-images.

Additionally how can the collected data be used to reconstruct an architectural space based on memory. In order to understand how to collect data from memory I investigated the different forms of documentation and space capture how can different analog media be translated into digital forms.

The short film is a compressed collection of data that has been captured in various forms of the same architectural structure. Furthermore through the use of different softwares, the analog & digital content have been transformed into objects that live in the Unity 3D space. 

The data collected from an architectural location, place based on memory is influenced by various media. Where does all of this data go? What if the content that we collect and save was a place we could enter and experience? As designers we are able to create worlds and experiences that otherwise were not meant to be seen but once we enter a place of collected data, the place is in our memory altering our memory of the place we once visited. What we collect and the tools we use to collect the data influence the way the location is represented as a place. Memory is influenced by the media collected. The way you remember this location transforms into a hybrid form.

Where does all of this data go? Where is it stored? How can we access it and use it for recollection of memory? What if the context we collect and save was a place we could enter and experience? If we could enter a world that has a foundation in reality but it has been reassembled together from pieces that we collected. Seems to be a familiar place but strange and surreal. This is Rašínova Street, the street that turns into the coffeeshop where I ordered the cappuccino and looked across the street at the architecture from what appeared to be the 18th century. But is it the same place? Or it’s merely a representation? The pieces of media are juxtaposed together creating a structure, collaged together only through the pieces that were mostly remembered and collected. Influenced by the top view of google images. I never saw the above view of the building but I imagine it looks something like this. As designers we are able to create worlds and experiences that otherwise were not meant to be seen. But once we enter a place created through collected data, the new experience enters our memory altering what and how we remember a place we once visited.