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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