Work in progress: memoryscape of post-recovery space

This Thursday sees the latest in our Work in Progress seminar series. The speaker is Dr Sana Murrani from the University of Plymouth. She will be speaking about the process of research and findings in her participatory mapping project, Creative Recovery, which looked at the journeys of everyday life of home and homeland of 12 refugees and asylum seekers in the UK where the construct of memory overlapped the construct of home and the maps became the journeys to post recovery space or memoryscapes. These memoryscapes contributed to the self-perceived recovery from trauma and loss. Sana’s research, which straddles the fields of spatial memory and cognition, critical urban theory and spatial practice, is focused on the understanding of the creative ways in which people respond to conflict and displacement spatially.

The seminar is from 16.30 to 18.00 on Thursday, 24 October in JHB307.