Memory Postcard is a VR workshop investigating the memories connected with items of furniture that have disappeared from our lives. During workshops, participants create paper sculptures of an item of furniture that holds significance for them. We invite them to make a piece of furniture from their past that they no longer have. The sculptures are then scanned with photogrammetry and inserted into a VR environment. The participants also record a statement describing their connection to the furniture item on their personal devices to sit alongside the sculptures. The effect is of a gallery of ephemeral objects that become more solid and real as the participants explore them in the liminal space of virtual reality.
The simple task of customising a paper template with an approximation of the colours and textures of the furniture already has the effect of remembering the significance of furniture in our lives and how the people and experiences we recollect relate to the domestic environment.
By translating it into a space where it can be enlarged to life size and for the participant to be able to re-encounter their visualisation as a solid object has the ability to create new memories and perspectives.
NOTE:
A personal smartphone is needed to participate in workshop activities.
PRESENTERS:
Isobel Knowles
Van Sowerwine
