기억의 형상 : 메모리얼 디자인

The act of remembrance is to recall something, which unavoidably involves diverse contextual interpretations of one situation. When it goes beyond the personal realm and addresses collective memory, then naturally followed by the issues of historicism and its representation. Loss is the fact of no longer having something or having less of it than before, which connotes the state of being absent. To commemorate is to remember an incident, that had been occurred in the past, memorialized in relation to the present moment and the future tense: therefore it is an affirmation of continuing life. It investigates what to remember and how to remember and why. Memorial design is essentially a public procedure and is based on consensus, therefore filtering out the diversity of sociocultural values of various parties involved in a situation. This is the very predicament of its innately didactical form and its ideological function that have been frequently mishandled and misused with political intents. Indeed, its indexical materiality can fixate one's viewpoint, framing out the complexity of a situation and even reinvent. Its inevitable process of institutionalization have generated anti-memorial sentiments which provocatively have challenged the traditional conception of memorial and transformed how we think about the act of remembrance itself and its embodiment.