Memory Co-Space

“Memory Co-Spaces” is a cross-disciplinary project that combines oral history methodology with spatial augmented reality (AR) to explore how personal and communal memories can be spatially re-experienced and reconstructed within their original environments. Grounded in the Dongming Neighborhood of Shanghai, the project collects residents’ life stories, emotional landscapes, and spatial narratives, and re-embeds them into physical space using photogrammetry, AR overlays, and interactive mapping.

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The project responds to a fundamental limitation of traditional oral history: the loss of spatiality in narrative forms. Memories, once recorded through text or sound, often lose their connection to the physical environments that shaped them. In contrast, Memory Co-Spaces restores these memories to their places of origin by building an interactive narrative environment where people can move through and encounter memory as part of spatial experience.