Collective Memories of Shared Space and Experience in the Creation and Inhabitation of Virtual Studio

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Digger Nutter ◽  
Victoria Payton
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memories ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Virtual Studio

Counter-monumentality and the vulnerability of memory

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Outward Appearance ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation

Monuments have been a staple of archaeology since the beginning of the discipline and have been used as case-studies for a diverse range of topics. In recent years, monuments have been considered particularly often in studies of social memory. By materializing memorial ambitions, however, the creation of monuments provides a venue for collective memories to be challenged. Despite their outward appearance of strength and permanence, monuments additionally render the memory of their creators vulnerable and open to contestation. In particular, the practice of counter-monumentality, or active and deliberate interventions in traditional monuments, illustrates how the erection of monuments exposes the inherent fragility of memory. Examples from the present and the past demonstrate these points: a statue of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Baltimore, Maryland, and a corpus of monumental statues from southeastern Anatolian and northern Syria during the Iron Age.

Trauma or Entertainment? Collective Memories of the NATO Bombing of Serbia

Südosteuropa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krisztina Rácz
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Nato Bombing

AbstractThis article addresses trauma, its absence, and the creation of a collective memory among the contributors to the journal

The Destroyer and the Peacemakers, 1984–1990

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Howlett
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
End Of History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Temple

This chapter explores the 1980s Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' schism by the ways individuals mapped the Kirtland Temple within their sacred universes. Such mapping involved revelations about temples, conferences at or near the building, the construction of worship spaces near the temple, the creation of eschatological maps about the temple and its role in the end of history, and the creation of collective memories through commemorative rituals. In this, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members followed practices that had helped establish their church's collective identity in previous decades. What was different, of course, was the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' schism that allowed for an opening to extreme, even violent, mappings of the Kirtland Temple. The chapter then recounts the history of Jeffrey Lundgren, his apocalyptic group, and his violent mapping and actions.

scholarly journals Imaginings on Sydney’s Edge: Myth, Mourning and Memory in a Fringe Community

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-140
Author(s):  
Ian Willis
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Fringe ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
Cultural Myths ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Country Town

Sydney’s metropolitan fringe is a theatre for the creation and loss of collective memories, cultural myths and community grieving around cultural icons, traditions and rituals. European settlement took the dreaming of the Aborigines and then had its own dreaming removed by an invasion from the east in the form of Sydney’s urban growth. The re-making of place in and around the fringe community of Camden illustrates the destruction and re-construction of cultural landscapes. Locals dream of retaining the aesthetics of an inter-war country town and in doing so have created an illusion of a historical myth of a ‘country town idyll’. In the new suburbs of Oran Park, Mt Annan and Harrington Park urbanites have invaded the area drawn by developer spin, which promised to fulfil hopes and dreams and never really lives up to the hype. Unfulfilled expectations mean that Sydney’s rural-urban fringe is a zone of transition where waves of invasion and succession have created perceptions of reality and all that is left is imaginings.

Community archives and the creation of living knowledge

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Simon Popple ◽  
Daniel H. Mutibwa ◽  
Andrew Prescott
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Community Archives ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ordinary Citizens ◽  
The Way

This chapter describes the community archives and corresponding developments over the course of the 20th century. It tracks the rise of an ‘archival multiverse’, which has transformed the way in which collective memories are curated. The growth of the archival multiverse reflects many intellectual, cultural, technological, social, and political currents. The most significant of these developments is the growth of community archives and the active participation of ordinary citizens in their formation. As community archives have become more widespread and influential, the professional archive community has started to radically rethink many of its own assumptions about how archives are created, preserved, and made available. This chapter briefly considers this phenomenon, asking what the notion of ‘community’ entails within this context and how archives have ‘turned’ in its direction. Finally, the chapter looks at how digital tools have helped to shape the growth of community archives.

Urban Cultural Heritage: Managing and Preserving a Local Global Common in the Twenty-first Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirosław M. Sadowski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
First Century ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century

As we approach the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century—at the moment when more people live in the cities than anywhere else—there comes a time to ponder on the role and the condition of urban cultural heritage. In times of growth, urbanization and rapid development, the city may be described as a modern battlefield of cultural heritage protection, often faced with the choice between protection and conservation, or destruction and redevelopment. This article seeks to analyse the means of protection of urban cultural heritage—a common, which is local (it takes a vital part in the creation of identity) and global (it is a part of a universal heritage) at the same time—in the international law, and to look into ways of its successful management. The first part of the article looks at the concept of the urban cultural heritage, and the second part examines the two main UNESCO conventions concerning cultural heritage protection, namely, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, to establish whether or not they are successful tools in protecting the urban cultural heritage. The third part focuses on analysing a new approach towards urban cultural heritage advocated by UNESCO, based on the 2011 recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL), giving examples of its successful (Amsterdam, Ballarat, Cuenca) and unsuccessful application (Stockholm, Hong Kong, Macau). In the fourth part, the author suggests ways of effective governance of the urban cultural heritage in the twenty-first century, from the viewpoint of sustainable urban development, focusing on the role of cultural heritage in the city’s growth, and in the creation of identity and collective memories. The concluding part of the article seeks for an answer to the question of a need for a new UNESCO convention.

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