The study of memory is already a highly occupied space as it a place we all visit, dive into, pass through, get enveloped and taken over by or touch everyday. A lot of the memory studies in the public realm that I have encountered so far are about mass or public remembrances or the redefining or subverting or forgetting of publicly set up "monuments". But what I'm interested in is the more private remembrance narrative built around the public space. It may be a corner where I had a first kiss that is now recontextualised as public space as a memorial to a mass remembrance.
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