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Through the Dynamic Memory Lab, the CPPD engages in varying collaborations to create temporary exhibition modules that make different dimensions of plural cultures of remembrance visible.
Applying an open laboratory approach, the Dynamic Memory Lab develops its content through an exploratory process and reacts to the dynamics of remembrance cultures in the form of a spatial intervention. The project is process-led, expandable, changeable – like memory itself. It creates a space for communicating and recognising individual stories and historical events that too often receive little attention within the discourse of remembrance politics. The modular spatial system was conceptualised and designed by the architect Jan Bodenstein and the product designer Yair Kira.
2.—14. August 2023
The first Dynamic Memory Lab was opened in collaboration with RomaTrial e.V. on the grounds of the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin on 2 August 2023, addressing the topic ‘Codes of Memory in Sinti* and Roma* Communities’. The catalyst for the exhibition was Roma Holocaust Memorial Day.
Curated by Hamze Bytyçi, theatre and media pedagogue and president of RomaTrial e.V., the exhibition made codes of memory from Roma* and Sinti* communities visible, commemorated them in the exhibition context, and reconfigured them in the process. The participatory design of the Dynamic Memory Lab invited visitors to the exhibition, as bearers of memory, to reflect upon their own codes of memory, to share their stories, and to locate them within the framework of our plural societies.
