Print Email Facebook Twitter Time is haptic Title Time is haptic: Exploring a tactile connection to forgotten histories in Utrecht’s Domplein Author Kirby, Grisha (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity) Contributor Tanović, S. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Project AR2A011 Date 2023-04-20 Abstract Current approaches of abstraction and conceptuality in the discourse of memorialisation can be useful to commemorate contemporary events, but the inherent flaws andshortcomings in the misuse of abstraction are insufficient in the quest of establishing a connection with the distant past. This thesis acts as a call for a different direction for thecrystallisation of memory. By looking beyond contemporary history, we can understand more about our spiritual connection with our ancestors from bygone eras. To aid thestrengthening of our spiritual ties to history I have diagnosed a new spatial typology of memory; the encounter-monument. The encounter-monument is the accidental monument; the fossilised memory; the physical and spiritual encounter with history. The encounter-monument is the scar tissue etched into stone that has survived, morphed and re-moulded over the centuries. The encounter-monument is the relic that we may come across in our day-to-day lives that jolts us back through history. They are the encounter with a stranger’s signature and date in the cover of a book that has been lying in the attic for decades. They are the slowly dissolving names on forgotten gravestones. Encounter-monuments are the sense of histories both recent and distant, passing before our very eyes. They plug us into the timeline of existence. This thesis explores the Domplein in Utrecht as a case study for the ineffective use of abstraction to commemorate its profound history, and through the use of various artistic media, propose a new direction for its focus. Through photographs, plaster casts and frottage drawings, I present a spiritual argument for tactility as a method of commemoration. Subject AR2A011MemoryTactilityDomkerkDompleinUtrechtAbstractionMemorials To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7a1721b7-67fc-4d74-aa25-d4834c0d9c2d Part of collection Student theses Document type student report Rights © 2023 Grisha Kirby Files PDF Grisha_Kirby_History_Thes ... Haptic.pdf 107.04 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7a1721b7-67fc-4d74-aa25-d4834c0d9c2d/datastream/OBJ/view