שבוע סדנאות - Memory Monument / Eric Moed

Memory Monument invites students to critically explore how public memory is created, contested, and represented democratically, narratively, spatially and materially. Participants will directly engage together with a unique participatory tool - Memory Monument - a memory game, that doubles as a lexicon of over 100 contemporary, radical, and even invisible global monuments and memorials. Students will work in small groups to investigate local public sites of contested or collective memory, study archival materials, and through fieldwork and iterative making, develop new conceptual interventions which respond to each context’s layered histories and narratives. The workshop combines lectures, research, design, and collective discussion to rethink whose stories are told in public space and to imagine ‘Future Memories:’ new forms of how they are memorialized. No prior experience with monuments or public art is required, only curiosity and openness to collaborative questioning and bold ideas.

This intensive three-day workshop introduces participants to the theoretical, historical, and experiential dimensions of public memory through Memory Monument, an interactive lexicon and participatory platform created to support critical engagement with existing and proposed monuments and memorials. Through lectures, discussion, site inquiry, and hands-on making, participants will develop new frameworks for interpreting public memory and generate their own conceptual interventions for several chosen Jerusalem sites.

Eric Moed (b. 1987, New York, NY) is an interdisciplinary designer and educator known for large-scale public art and design installations in the US and EU. His practice exists at the intersection of public art, architecture and design, examining the relationship between memory, narrative and society. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture, a Fellow at the Urban Design Forum, and a member of the Memory Studies Association. Previously, he was a founding member of the MIT Media Lab’s Poetic Justice Group and a member at the New Museum’s cultural incubator NEW INC. Eric holds a Master’s in Design Studies from Harvard Graduate School of Design with a concentration in Art, Design, and the Public Domain and a Bachelors of Architecture from Pratt Institute. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vogue, NPR, and more. In 2020 he founded New York-based design studio Office of Open Practice.

https://www.officeofopenpractice.com