The Walls within: Inhabiting Remnants of Urban loss
Loss is inevitable in the wake of war and modernisation; the idea of restoring the ‘what was’ becomes fragile, but re-inhabiting the remains can re-establish the layers of memory that existed before. The wall we rebuild becomes both a metaphor and materialises the palimpsest of cultural history: creating surfaces that hold past traces yet create spaces for more. To inhabit the walls, then, is not an act of nostalgia, but rather to engage in the continuity of time and memory; using the historical and eroded condition of the site as an embedded element to build a resilient form.
