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The other day while making myself a cup of tea next to a meeting here at BRIG (which is where RIG and ADG make their home during working hours) I was mentioned as “…and Jim does mass graves…” to which I too quickly and smarmily added “But wait! I also
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If you would have asked me just even a year ago if I would be addressing a public hearing in European Union Parliament, I wouldn’t have even understood the question I don’t think. To think that what basically began as an idea, and a not even a terribly
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Rolf and I have somehow managed to have been invited by none less than a vice president of the European Union Parliament to speak at a Public Hearing in the EU Parliament called “What Do Young Europeans Know About Totalitarianisms”. Aside of course from the widening of what we’re
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So in a couple of short hours, or probably less, last week I’ve managed to get my work that I’m doing for the Spomenik project on no less than ten Slovenian news outlets, thanks in large part to the brave and media-savvy work of our partners at the
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“So what are you up to today?” asks curious fellow designer person. “Oh, you know, a little genocide in the morning, a lot of emailing people that probably don’t care, and then I have to do expenses,” I respond. The curious fellow designer person usually responds with an uneasy
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This is some of the documentation taken by Rolf Wiesemes and I 16 Dec 2010 on our field research in Slovenia. [slickr-flickr type=”gallery” search=”sets” set=”72157625620790455″ items=”20″ descriptions=”on” use_key=”y”]
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At one of our meetings at the National Holocaust Centre with whom we’re working on the Pervasive Monuments project, Adam Moore, our resident information scientist and geo-spatial guy said something that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. Here’s the summation to the best of my
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The Pervasive Monuments project is in full, almost incomprehensible swing, and the swirling mass of ideas, issues and things to consider seems to multiply by the second. We’ve been looking at is the notion of a monument, or rather, a digital or “pervasive” monument as not just a static
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There are many things I never knew about Rwanda and could have guessed and many others that I could never in a million years guess. One of them is that I’ve had some of the best pizza I’ve ever had there. While it sounds incredibly trite, especially considering
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View Larger Map So tomorrow is a ludicrously early start to Kigali, Rwanda via Brussels for research work for the Pervasive Monuments project. What started as Spomenik, now has taken on a paralell project looking at public memorialisation and technology in education in post-genocide Rwanda. On top of having been