Openness is a matter of Ilumination: The relation between postmemory fiction-writing and spatial studies through the novel Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

This thesis explores the influence of space on the formation and preservation of postmemory through the literary novel Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, adapted to screen by Liev Screiber. The starting point of the research is an attempt at a better understanding of the roles of reality and fiction in the case of Trachimbrod,...

Building Biographies through Heritage Repurposing: Socio-spatial Research in Shipai Village under Rapid Urbanization

Chinese urban village has attracted much discussion as an urban phenomenon by sociologists and architects. It was transformed from a traditional village gathered by clans with blood ties to an urban enclave focusing on a land-profit economy. At the same time, with the migration of locals and outsiders, the collective memory has changed from a...

Digital Traumatic Memory: The Reflection on Digitization in the Contemporary Memorial Museum

Our world is shaped by digital technologies. Since the first commercially available computer was released in 1951, a digital revolution was started across contexts - exposing new ways to connect disparate fields. Digital geographers Sarah Elwood and Katharyne Mitchell concluded that digital approaches inevitably change ways of knowing,...