Design of Remembrance is a method of working with memory through collected traces, images, and objects.

It begins with the small things that remain from an experience: notes, tickets, wrappers, photographs, sketches, receipts, fragments, and other personal artifacts. Seemingly ordinary, these traces can carry the atmosphere and details of a journey or event long after it has passed.

The practice brings these fragments together through drawing, writing, collecting, arranging, and making. Their arrangement becomes a way of looking back at an experience while also discovering connections that were not visible at the time.

Design of Remembrance turns memories into tangible forms — travel books, postcards, collages, mnemonic objects, and other personal records.

The Approach

• Collecting traces — Gathering small objects, images, notes, and fragments connected to an experience.
• Mnemonic keys — Using words, images, objects, and personal signs that can reactivate a particular memory.
• Drawing and writing — Recording details, impressions, and associations by hand.
• Composition — Arranging visual and textual fragments to discover relationships and create a coherent form.
• Making — Transforming collected material into books, postcards, collages, objects, and other tangible forms.

The method has also been explored through workshops, inviting participants to work with their own collected materials and create personal structures of memory.

Design of Remembrance is a way of giving memory a tangible form.