Meaning, Memory and Amnesia | uniformnovember
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Meaning, Memory and Amnesia | uniformnovember
architects are now taught to design houses, not homes, thus contributing to the uprooting that feeds into our growing inability to genuinely connect with the world. There is a “poetics of home”—linked to memory, emotions, dreams, identity, and intimacy—that functional architecture and “modern living” have foreclosed
Arturo Escobar • Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
Ruins can be potent "containers for emergent forms of inhabitation in a damaged world." Relating to ruins as more than nostalgic, fetishized objects interrupts our memory cycles, reminding us that place can be remade in imaginative ways even when conditions are harsh.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Kei Kreutler, in Artificial Memory and Orienting Infinity, reframes cultural memory systems—rituals, archives, architectures—not as storehouses of facts, but as technologies of orientation. Their purpose is to help agents navigate an overwhelming and shifting landscape of relevance. Memory in this sense is not for preservation but for direction—for
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