Collective memory is stimulated from past events, narratives, and inherited stories. It is not a lived or individually experienced moment, rather constructed by learning, passing on through generations. Collective memory of the wall as an architectural typology in Detroit consists of a physical and abstract tool for racial segregation and separation of the city from the suburb. Through the integration of the photograph to the traditional methods of drawing and model, Building From Memory presents a collection of new past and future  memories that alter existing associations with the wall in the Jefferson-Mack neighborhood of Detroit’s Eastside. The constructed memory of a shared past then becomes the platform for an endless series of autobiographical experiences that start to re-define the space's emotional memory.

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Advisors: Luben Dimcheff

Erin Pellegrino  
 

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