MEMORY AND

TRAUMA 2
 Final Project: Use your knowledge of
memory to make the world better
◦ Typical Research Project
◦ How do and should we deal with celebrities
that have failed us, “troubled identifications”?
◦ Analyze a memorial or museum and uncover
something unexpected about how it asks you
to remember.
◦ Analyze another media text that pushes us to
consider memory in unique ways.
◦ How have different communities responded to
the fast chaos of Covid-19 through nostalgia
(from knitting to bread baking)?
◦ How have Donald Trump and Joe Biden used
conflicting memories of the US in their
presidential campaigns?
◦ What is neostalgia and why does it matter?
◦ Memory and Design: Research and
discuss a hypothetical provotype. ◦ For Your Future Career:
◦ What could be done about the How will knowing about
conflicting monuments or the memory help you in your
sooner on campus? What’s your
solution? future career.
◦ What kind of social media design
might cause users to interrogate the ◦ How can I teach about
ways Facebook or Twitter ask us to
remember (remember 4 Photos)? memory in an English
◦ How can slow design and culture be class?
employed to calm fast culture?
Think craft. ◦ How are memory and
◦ What recommendations do you marketing/advertising
have for trigger warnings?
related?
◦ What might new devices and
technologies designed to be
inherented rather than thrown away
with the next update look like?
Trauma and
The Selfie
◦ What is the selfie?
◦ Selfie at traumasites (Pearl Harbor, concentration camps,
etc.): proof of pilgrimage, witness and affect.
◦ Dark Tourism: Why do we travel to these sites in the first
place? Why do we photograph them outside the selfie?
◦ Witnessing: Observe the witness and testimony of others,
to respond and comprehend one’s relationship to com-
munal trauma and social suffering. To keep memory and
lessons of events alive.
◦ Is the etiquette of traumasites culturally coded?
◦ Anne Frank would have been a Belieber?
◦ Can and will the commemoration of trauma change
across time? (see veteran’s day vs. armistice day)
◦ Armistice: an agreement made by opposing sides in
a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.