Abstract
Toby Butler
University of East London
Memoryscapes: experiments in deepening our sense of place
This talk is concerned with the reflective practice of creating location-specific new media trails to “spatialize” oral history. The speaker has created a series of 'memoryscape' trails which interpret public places with the use of sound and oral history recordings. He will discuss his experiments in giving present–and past–residents a voice in the interpretation of rapidly changing districts of in London. Toby Butler is a senior lecturer in London history and heritage at the University of East London and co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. He has worked with community groups on oral history projects in London, Wales and India.
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