Week 1 - Class
21 July 2017
Today we had our first class in Semester 2. We pretty much had a long lecture covering all the important stuff and the staff introduced themselves to us with their expertise.
After that we went to our Streams and we presented our Matrixes to each other
The feedback I received from peers and tutor was helpful.
My answer:
Memorials in that context are usually for a group of people (war memorial etc.) or a well known person (Massey Memorial in Miramar for Primeminister Massey and his wife).
Why do memorials have to be that way now? Even commoners should have the choice to be remembered. And also the way remember people is changing. We remember people online, might as well make it more in a context and not for everyone in public to see (which a peer of mine, had bad experience with, with a deceased friend of his). My aim is not only preserve memory that would get lost in a digital environment, but also changing the way we remember people!
Today we had our first class in Semester 2. We pretty much had a long lecture covering all the important stuff and the staff introduced themselves to us with their expertise.
After that we went to our Streams and we presented our Matrixes to each other
The feedback I received from peers and tutor was helpful.
- what if you as the individual are not interested in making your own memorial or you can't do it yourself because of disability/not technically talented? are you able to nominate a friend/family member to help you out, make one for you under your consent?
- Set your project up in an open-ended, speculative way if that is what you want. don;t do it at the very end!
- how would you motivate to do this? will this be provided with writing your will?
- Pick a culture to focus on, and then (open-ended!) it could roll out for other cultures. One culture to test, if it works, continue to provide for others.
- Andre's Provocation: "Memorials are usually set in a specific location" and something else which I understood as that memorials the way I propose them would possibly not be attractive to people influenced by western culture.
My answer:
Memorials in that context are usually for a group of people (war memorial etc.) or a well known person (Massey Memorial in Miramar for Primeminister Massey and his wife).
Why do memorials have to be that way now? Even commoners should have the choice to be remembered. And also the way remember people is changing. We remember people online, might as well make it more in a context and not for everyone in public to see (which a peer of mine, had bad experience with, with a deceased friend of his). My aim is not only preserve memory that would get lost in a digital environment, but also changing the way we remember people!
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