About
There is a tension between the personal, multilayered, multisensory, and embodied nature of remembering a place, and the ways that such recollections are mobilised for collective reframing of the past, present, and the future. In places that people render as important – for example, where people's significant life events have unfolded – this tension becomes especially salient.
Based on our ongoing visual ethnographic work with communities affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Textural Fragments of a Place Memory: A Collage Film Workshop at the 2025 International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) Conference explores how the different textures of personal place memories can be care-fully shared while ensuring the privacy, dignity, and well-being of those who carry them.
In this workshop, we will draw on works such as Georges Perec's Les Lieux and Situationist International's dérive as inspirations to explore collage filmmaking as a mode of inquiry into this space. Workshop participants will create their own collage films by combining visual elements they encounter in different places to depict their textural memories of a place of personal resonance.
The workshop will provide opportunities for critical discussions around relevant theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as artistic experimentations. Suwon will serve as the focal site for unexpected encounters to explore and gather visual fragments, which are then integrated into a collage film illuminating the affective textures of place memory in ways that attend to ethical imperatives of care and collaboration.
Workshop Details
Date: Thursday June 26, 2025
Sessions: 9:00-10:15 & 10:30-11:45 (double-session )
Location: TBC by IVSA
Organisers
Kana Ohashi
(Ph.D. in Media and Governance) is a visual ethnographer and currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, Tokyo Keizai University, Japan. Her research interests include people’s experiences of moving home, transnational communication, and visual ethnographic methodologies.
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi
is an Associate Professor in Civic Interaction Design, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands. Their current practice-research explores the dynamics of creative practice as feral care: its potential to arouse societal transformation in different cultural and more-than-human contexts, and; experimental and co-creative ways of forming relational spaces to make sense of indeterminacy, plurality, and entanglements towards change.
Keisuke Shimakage
is a design researcher and currently working as an Associate Professor at Department of Media Architecture, School of Systems Information Science, Future University Hakodate, Japan. His research interests include Inclusive Design, Investigative Aesthetics, Speculative Design.
Participate
Interested in participating in the Textural Fragments of a Place Memory workshop? Let us know by completing the form below (or you can go directly to the form: https://forms.gle/RwFjbbgC9mocHrCv7).
🍄 Please complete the form by 2025/06/10. Selected participants will be notified by 2025/06/15. 🍄
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