Spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods
Spomenik (‘monument) is a digital memorial architecture that transposes in time otherwise hidden cultural memories of atrocity. Spomenik was designed as a simple digital audio guide, embedded in a remote rural location (Kočevski Rog, Slovenia), and working without the infrastructure normally presen...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Published: |
MIT Press
2018
|
| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49299/ |
| _version_ | 1848797968144007168 |
|---|---|
| author | Kirk, David S. Durrant, Abigail C. Kosem, Jim Reeves, Stuart |
| author_facet | Kirk, David S. Durrant, Abigail C. Kosem, Jim Reeves, Stuart |
| author_sort | Kirk, David S. |
| building | Nottingham Research Data Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | Spomenik (‘monument) is a digital memorial architecture that transposes in time otherwise hidden cultural memories of atrocity. Spomenik was designed as a simple digital audio guide, embedded in a remote rural location (Kočevski Rog, Slovenia), and working without the infrastructure normally present at national memorial sites. By resurrecting voices and cultural narratives of the deceased, positing them back in to the landscape through digital means, Spomenik opens a dialogue about the events of the past, in relation to networks of the living, exploring the role of voice and agency, as serviced through design in the act of memorialization. We contribute a detailed case study of a design-led inquiry about digital memorialization and digital preservation of cultural heritage, and a reflective account about the nature of legacy and the extent to which it is (and perhaps should be) necessarily bound to networks of collective memory, mediated through designed cultural tools. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T20:12:18Z |
| format | Article |
| id | nottingham-49299 |
| institution | University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus |
| institution_category | Local University |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T20:12:18Z |
| publishDate | 2018 |
| publisher | MIT Press |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | nottingham-492992020-05-04T19:26:50Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49299/ Spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods Kirk, David S. Durrant, Abigail C. Kosem, Jim Reeves, Stuart Spomenik (‘monument) is a digital memorial architecture that transposes in time otherwise hidden cultural memories of atrocity. Spomenik was designed as a simple digital audio guide, embedded in a remote rural location (Kočevski Rog, Slovenia), and working without the infrastructure normally present at national memorial sites. By resurrecting voices and cultural narratives of the deceased, positing them back in to the landscape through digital means, Spomenik opens a dialogue about the events of the past, in relation to networks of the living, exploring the role of voice and agency, as serviced through design in the act of memorialization. We contribute a detailed case study of a design-led inquiry about digital memorialization and digital preservation of cultural heritage, and a reflective account about the nature of legacy and the extent to which it is (and perhaps should be) necessarily bound to networks of collective memory, mediated through designed cultural tools. MIT Press 2018-01-15 Article PeerReviewed Kirk, David S., Durrant, Abigail C., Kosem, Jim and Reeves, Stuart (2018) Spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods. Design Issues, 34 (1). pp. 67-83. ISSN 0747-9360 https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/DESI_a_00477 doi:10.1162/DESI_a_00477 doi:10.1162/DESI_a_00477 |
| spellingShingle | Kirk, David S. Durrant, Abigail C. Kosem, Jim Reeves, Stuart Spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods |
| title | Spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods |
| title_full | Spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods |
| title_fullStr | Spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods |
| title_short | Spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods |
| title_sort | spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49299/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49299/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49299/ |