Description
With digital technologies, everyday life has been increasingly embedded in digital media. The medialisation of memory is thus an ongoing negotiation of and interplay with emergent technologies. For instance, the new media, such as social networks and digital editing techniques, enables the copying, dissemination, and reproduction of digital archives, thus transcending the relationship between media and everyday negotiation of memories by remixing digital archives with interpretations. As for urban spaces, on the one hand, the sensible distance has arguably been changed and polarised into either too far (the ideological image or traits from the internet) or too close (the personal realm). The in-between, the sense of life in everyday urban spaces is getting diluted. When these shaped senses and memories reflect into the place-making, it would appear as a “void in-between”.On the other hand, the reproduction of memories would also be a new form of engagement, a ludic and creative way to provide critical thinking on the experience of urban spaces. As such, rather than putting digital technologies against place-making, this article aims to explore a potential approach to utilising digital technologies to enhance place-making, particularly for the dismissed part, the everyday urban spaces. Instead of focusing on the technological sides of data capturing, analysing and visualising, this article intends to pay more attention to the theoretical discussion on the way in which people relate with everyday urban spaces through digital technologies and new media.
| Period | 18 Jun 2022 |
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| Event title | The Place of Memory and Memory of Place |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | London, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |