(right)- space frozen in a miniature, like a loop, keeps repeating.

Direct viewers gaze to invisible elements, such as image construction and institutional space.

Memory Mechanism

“Memory is the means by which we draw on our past experiences in order to use this information in the present." (Sternberg, 1999) 

1.MEMORY ENCODING
Information can be encoded through sound(short-term), visual, and meaning (long-term).
2.MEMORY STORAGE
3.MEMORY RETRIEVAL

Memory can be corrupted by trauma, brain injury, or repeated stress.

Cognitive Psychology

Photos of my childhood home

I tried paper-crete...

I found some polyester foam...

The polyester foam used for packaging filled the gap between the product and the "box". It acts like a negative foam, revealing the marks of the things (thats not present).

The memory foam pillow reveal the shape of the body. softer. Like foam in sofa.

Papercrete is a mixture of paper pulp and concrete ( cement and sand). It's a lot more fibrous than concrete, almost have this organic quality.
turn waste into something constructive, concrete is a building material, adding paper waste gives it a sort of context?

Catriona Robertson,
used paper-crete and paper clay, recycled materials. kInda reference to monuments

视觉元素：地上的花纹地砖，花园的形式，昏暗的楼道，彩色条纹挡雨，防盗窗条纹

小区的四个大花盆

Study of the mind as an information processer, build up cognitive models of information processing that goes on inside people's minds.

Topography

Geomancy -地理全书，风水探穴

Geomancy actually uses the topography to identify where the Qi is. The best location is where the Qi is the strongest.

Memory = a fluid/ever changing intinty

Similar to the cognition process, kinda resting between the set values.

Study of shapes and features on land surfaces.

Guan Xiao

Combined ready-made industrial material and crafty/ traditional Chinese symbol ( tree roots, ceramic). However, these Chinese symbols are carefully modified to not really remind the Grandpa generation lol
There is an interesting contrast between the clean factory manufactured material/hand touched the material.

I can see she borrowed visual elements from Chinese tales, folklore. The experience is fragmented because we live in an age of fragmented experience.

This house was a microdistrict. A microdistrict is a residential complex, which was developed by the Soviet Union. This concept was introduced in 1957 to China and is still a part of Chinese urban life. Most citizens are still living in a microdistrict. A Xiaoqu is often a walled and gated community.

Its interesting how the imported concept is still lasting in China, a former Socialism state. It feels like the Socialism past hasn't faded away. an interesting cultural/ political gap. It shaped so much of people's lives that one doesn't even notice.

There is a sci-fi looking ball in the center of Xiaoqu, I bet there were loads of hope and dreams pumped into it when it was built in 2000. The old gym and social space have been altered, the chairs are leaking water and the public toilet stinks.

In recent years, Xiaoqu is so much linked with social status and your ability to pay.

http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/17143/1/The%20Housing%20Model%20xiaoqu_Wallenwein.pdf

Urban Planning of Xiaoqu in 1950s - 1960s

Chinese checkers

These Chinese checkers look similiar to the Urban Planning and the tiles on the floor. I am intrested in its form., many small forms, repeat and eventually form something greater.

Enclosed area - a separation of public life and private life
Ancient city in China - cosmological and ritual center. Traditional urban planning ideal includes axiality (轴对称）and cardinal orientation (东南西北轴线).
Spatial organization - the status of power
City = microcosm

Insulation Wool and Peter Sloterdijk's Foam

Foam = individuals form a foam/ an island; a particularly boundary set in the area. (a hand's performance; the sum of voice in a community; the images/motif of a place?) 
Insulation = process of island-formation; membrane given;boundary given

Islands :
1.aboslute islands ( beyond bi-dimensional, an absolute boundary)
2.the atmospheric islands ( the temperature regulation/ heating system)
3.the anthropogenic islands ( self-generating and developing life in specifically prepared contexts)

Insulation wool - thermal and acoustic insulation. Trap sound and heat.

HEAT - thermal insulation - use materials to reduce rates of heat transfer
SOUND- acoustic insulation - reducing the intensity of sound

Mongolian nomads used felted and woven wool pads as an insulating layer on the floor and wall in yurts/ger.
Yurts are mobile, round tent, covered with skins and felts.

Insulated Neighborhood - chromosomal structures formed by the interaction of two DNA loci.

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