Mechanisms of memory - Architecture as a catalyst and container of collective memory
(2025) AAHM10 20251Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- What makes a place meaningful to a community, and what happens to those meanings when the city changes? This thesis investigates architecture's role as both keeper and creator of collective memory in urban environments.
Building on sociological theories, this research explores how memories are stored in the built environment, not as static entities but continuously formed, repeated, and transformed over time. Rather than approaching memory as something to be preserved or erased, the thesis proposes architecture that actively engages with memory as a dynamic social process.
Through a conceptual spatial intervention, the project interprets the mechanisms of collective memory to create a platform that facilitates memory-making in urban... (More) - What makes a place meaningful to a community, and what happens to those meanings when the city changes? This thesis investigates architecture's role as both keeper and creator of collective memory in urban environments.
Building on sociological theories, this research explores how memories are stored in the built environment, not as static entities but continuously formed, repeated, and transformed over time. Rather than approaching memory as something to be preserved or erased, the thesis proposes architecture that actively engages with memory as a dynamic social process.
Through a conceptual spatial intervention, the project interprets the mechanisms of collective memory to create a platform that facilitates memory-making in urban contexts. By treating memory as a collective, evolving process, this thesis offers an alternative approach to urban renewal that values local narratives without monumentalizing them, instead creating spaces that acknowledge the past while remaining open to continuous reinterpretation and renewal. (Less)
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- author
- Dybeck, Malin LU
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- organization
- course
- AAHM10 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- language
- English
- id
- 9212479
- date added to LUP
- 2025-09-29 12:35:37
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- 2025-09-29 12:35:37
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abstract = {{What makes a place meaningful to a community, and what happens to those meanings when the city changes? This thesis investigates architecture's role as both keeper and creator of collective memory in urban environments.
Building on sociological theories, this research explores how memories are stored in the built environment, not as static entities but continuously formed, repeated, and transformed over time. Rather than approaching memory as something to be preserved or erased, the thesis proposes architecture that actively engages with memory as a dynamic social process.
Through a conceptual spatial intervention, the project interprets the mechanisms of collective memory to create a platform that facilitates memory-making in urban contexts. By treating memory as a collective, evolving process, this thesis offers an alternative approach to urban renewal that values local narratives without monumentalizing them, instead creating spaces that acknowledge the past while remaining open to continuous reinterpretation and renewal.}},
author = {{Dybeck, Malin}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Mechanisms of memory - Architecture as a catalyst and container of collective memory}},
year = {{2025}},
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