invisible grounds

Riccarda Cappeller
architect. urban designer. author. researcher. curator

THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE WRITTEN IN SPACE
installation | 2017

The urban research project was based on the question how to capture the memory of an absent place. Departing from the place of a former music hall in Dalston Junction (London), a neighbourhood characterized by gentrification and rapid change, the memories of people were collected by writing.
They were brought together in order to recreate a collective memory in the form of a newspaper and a podcast.

Over a period of two months, installations were realized at regular intervals in public spaces to encourage exchange and remembrance and to create a small archive of narratives between today, yesterday and tomorrow.

site writing urban research
everydaylife documentation
public interrogation
recording urban memory

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