This book explores new approaches towards developing memorial and heritage sites, moving beyond the critique of existing practices that have been the traditional focus of studies of commemoration. Offering understandings of the effects of conflict on memories of place, as manifested in everyday lives and official histories, it explores the formation of urban identities and constructed images of the city. Topographies of Memories suggests interdisciplinary approaches for creating commemorative sites with shared stakes. The first part of the book focuses on memory dynamics, the second on Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, and the third on physical and material world interventions. Design practices and modes of engagement with places of memory are explored, making connections between theoretical explorations of memory and forgetting and practical strategies for designers and practitioners.
Part I. GROUNDWORK: Revealing Place and Memory
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Contortions of Memory
Part II. FOCUS: Excavating Nicosias Buffer Zone
Chapter 3. Tracing Times in Place
Chapter 4. The Reserve of Forgetting
Chapter 5. Remains of the Day
Part III. POIESIS: Designing for Emotional Bodies Chapter 6. Modes of Engagement
Chapter 7. Materializing Metaphor
The strength of the book is in the tracing of events in time and place, with Anita at home in the cultural mapping and the case-study of the Nicosia buffer-zone. This is, indeed, an important contribution in itself but, with a bibliography that is rich and engaging, more references need to be devoted to the theories of cultural mapping and the attributes that are necessarily relevant to each particular geo-cultural contexts. (Michael l#"
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