- New alliances
Public history has shown that oral sources - mostly in the forms of A/V interviews - can add an additional perspective to the more common “chronology of events”: that of a choral story. Through a direct relationship with the context and its people, what emerges is not a linear story, but rather a network of stories strongly connected with the landscape: its working places, houses, roads, public spaces. AFOr aims at establishing a new method of analysing these aspects through the prototyping of an open source archive of oral sources. Enhanced with tools mutuated from various disciplines (IT, linguistics, public history, machine learning, urbanistic and urban morphology), the archive opens up new ways of accessing, interpreting, and re-using the sources (e.g. to map the memories onto a real geographical map, or to create educational and touristic itineraries), while creating a direct link between spaces and memories and offering a scientific help to shape the future of the neighbourhood.
During the recording moment, from the street to remember how the neighborhood looked like in the past
Recording interview: account of the life of an ex-craftsman now a painter and sculptors in his studio
Recording interview: tale of the life of an ex-craftsman among his tools and his photographs of a lifetime
Recorded interview: mother and daughter describe the construction of a house and a family through photographs and publications when the neighborhood was founded.
AFOr map: representation of interviews, places mentioned, and connections between community members. Interviews are geo-referenced to the locations where they were recorded.
