Memory processes have been imagined and communicated through a variety of spatial and visual metaphors that construct an architecture of internal memory places. What are the relationships between internal states that configure memories and the material spaces of external lived environments, with particular reference to connections maintained between the living and the deceased?
How are the living and the dead provided with shared spaces through efforts of memory?
How are we commemorate and remember?
Home can act as a place within which time’s passage becomes fixed or condensed, where ‘fossilized duration’ is ‘concretized’. Even after twenty years, the memory of the house where we were born can reanimate in us the feelings and gestures we knew at that time.
‘Memories are motionless and the more securely they are fixed in spaces, the sounder they are'(Ranum, O. (1989) ‘ The Refuges of Intimacy’)
‘The site of our intimate lives can be revisited imaginatively’ (Bachelard, G. (1994 [1958] ) The Poetics of Space: The classic look at how we experience intimate spaces, Boston: Beacon Press.)