Final project submissions bring together local history, family memory, archival traces, difficult pasts, migration, place, testimony, digital media and questions of democratic access to history.
Access & preservation. Where participants supplied publication-ready files, the exhibition preserves a local archival copy within this website rather than relying on Google Drive. Platform-based works such as StoryMaps, timelines and web exhibitions are embedded in their project pages when available, with a direct-open fallback for accessibility and platform compatibility.
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The forgotten history of the 1943 Feldkirch Freight Train Escape reveals the current German- centric gap in Holocaust education. Through this example, a narrative of active subversion in intense surveillance networks is discovered. By re…
Explore project →Shushi Beyond Reach explores what happens to collective memory when physical access to a place is lost while the material environment that carries that memory is also transformed, endangered or destroyed. Moving between 1920, 1992, 2020…
Explore project →In 1862, 25 families established the Jewish community of Monor. This prosperous congregation had their own synagogue and institutions, while the local Jews played an active role in the town’s economic and social life. However, the anti-J…
Explore project →The story of my grandfather, father and uncle working in public labour in 1949 leaving their home from Kilkis (Dipotamos) to Serres (Vrontou).
Explore project →This project examines the 1944 Kokkinia Blockade and traces how the local community preserved and contested its memory through monuments, film, plaques, and commemorative practices from 1956 to the present. It asks “who owns memory?” by…
Explore project →English In 1954, more than 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war from the Korean War came to Taiwan and were publicly represented as “Anti-Communist Heroes” within Taiwan’s Cold War political narrative. Decades later, their experiences of war,…
Explore project →Trend progression recorded on Japanese wartime propagandic magazine Djawa Baroe (1943-1945)
Explore project →Our Children | আমাদের শিশু — A Living Memory Archive is a digital public-memory project examining what happens when a child-related tragedy becomes intensely visible in the social-media public sphere and then gradually recedes from colle…
Explore project →What Remains: My Family Memory and the Ethiopian Red Terror explores how family memory survives when a person’s story is left largely untold. Through objects and fragments connected to my father’s imprisonment during Ethiopia’s Derg regi…
Explore project →What the “Water Remembers” is a photo essay centered on a visit to the Great Falls of the Passaic River and the surviving mill buildings of Paterson, New Jersey, in the United States. Prompted by an encounter with a textile lantern slide…
Explore project →My story is situated in contemporary Delhi and concerns the culinary memories the city preserves in the present. I have tried to examine of varieties of rotis in Delhi (India's capital city, with a long migrant history) as archives of mi…
Explore project →This digital public history project traces the historical presence of the Jewish community of Ioannina through selected places in the city. Focusing on Jewish neighbourhoods, religious and educational sites, the deportation of 1944, and…
Explore project →Juan José Cabezudo (c. 1800–1860), an Afro-Peruvian cook in early republican Lima, is widely considered Peru's first openly queer public figure. This ten-slide Instagram carousel follows the successive portraits of him from the watercolo…
Explore project →A memorial monument, which was built at the same place where the massacre took place, up to the hill is not only a monument but also a reminder to the memory for all the people who resist. The local events every year, at the 13th of Dece…
Explore project →A story about the island of Salamis and how its people relate to its classical past.
Explore project →This photo essay follows the Hatay Assembly Building, locally known as the Meclis, through eight photographs I took between November 2022 and April 2026. It brings together historical sources and my memories of it as a social space, my f…
Explore project →a walk thorugh the Hearo's path and questions of memory and its constrction
Explore project →This short film reconstructs the fragments of my grandfather Georgiy Vystavkin’s life: a Ukrainian taken to Germany as a forced laborer and held in four Nazi camps. Through archival records, newspaper fragments, historical traces, and fa…
Explore project →One photograph of A.S. Trikki from the 1950s combines different archival sources. Rather than telling the complete history of Trikki, it will use one image to explore how soccer was remembered within one local community.and asks what it…
Explore project →Drawing on archives, feminist historiography, survivor memoirs, literary representations, and digital humanities, the project interrogates how the 1947 Partition has been remembered, regulated, and spatially narrated by the state and by…
Explore project →Inspired by our own family histories, this project explores two interconnected migration experiences: Greek political refugees who settled in Poland after the Greek Civil War and Polish emigrants who left the country during the communist…
Explore project →The project is a digital exhibition featuring four extracts from an interview with Rosa Garcia Alcon. Rosa is a memory and justice activist for the right to truth, justice and reparation for Francoist crimes. She is also actively engaged…
Explore project →Who Remembers Grandma Kansas? explores the recovery of a Black family ancestor whose presence survives more fully in family memory than in the official archival record. Beginning with the fragments surrounding “Grandma Kansas,” the proje…
Explore project →A short web story about the checked woven plastic bag known across West Africa as "Ghana Must Go". The name comes from Nigeria's expulsion of Ghanaian and other West African migrants in January 1983. The story follows the bag from an ord…
Explore project →Anton Wilhelm Amo Heritage: Sites of Memory presents the Anton Wilhelm Amo Heritage Audio Archive as a translocal and community-led public-history project concerned with the contested memory of the eighteenth-century African philosopher…
Explore project →What can the journey of three Argentine born German siblings to Germany and back tell us about Germanness abroad and the Second War World beyond German borders? What happens when an imagined homeland becomes a place you need to leave? Fo…
Explore project →When change is NOT the only constant: poverty: how one’s lived experiences/historical memory of the 20th C are still the reality in the 21st Century in the Western Balkans geographical region. Visibilise emotional memories: the story spe…
Explore project →Talk to the Past is an interactive audio story created within the EVZ-funded project “Who Owns Memory?”. Through a rotary telephone, users connect to the memories of Mieczysław Gnojek, who was deported from Poland to Germany for forced l…
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