Share Your story


image (c): Mojdeh and Sasha Simic
 

Describe a memory that is tied to a place.

Where is this place? Does it still exist? What aspects of the city/space erodes or strengthens your connection to the memory? What does this place make you feel?

  • Respond with a text, a question, a picture, or drawing

  • Submit using this form or email your story.

  • Read some of the stories people have shared about their place memories.

After a d.talks event, what’s next? Share Your Story is conceived by d.talks volunteers in partnership with Advocates for Equitable Design Education and the Calgary Public Library. Hosting small conversations on the mezzanine during the Land and Memory event in November, we realized we weren’t ready to close the digital door and call it “done”. Developing the themes emerging in the public conversations, we’ve expanded and narrowed into a single question, a call to describe a memory tied to a place.

After a d.talks event, what’s next? Share Your Story is conceived by d.talks volunteers in partnership with Advocates for Equitable Design Education and the Calgary Public Library. Hosting small conversations on the mezzanine during the Land and Memory event in November, we realized we weren’t ready to close the digital door and call it “done”.

Developing the themes emerging in the public conversations, we’ve expanded and narrowed into a single question, a call to describe a memory tied to a place.



 
 

share your story

Describe a memory that is tied to a place

Respond with a text, a question, a photograph or drawing

 

Where is this place?

Does it still exist?

What aspects of the city/space erodes or strengthens your connection to the memory?

What does this place make you feel?

 
The Circle As a pure geometrical perspective, a circle represents the non-Euclidian infinite flow. For Lakota people and First Nations in North America the circle represents the Hocokah. A place to share one’s journey where everybody learns from ano…

The Circle

As a pure geometrical perspective, a circle represents the non-Euclidian infinite flow. For Lakota people and First Nations in North America the circle represents the Hocokah. A place to share one’s journey where everybody learns from another’s experience and all beings are interrelated. A moment when your story alongside others creates a larger narrative. The narrative that forms places, friendship, community or the small things that make life an enjoyable journey.

Text by: Sergio Veyzaga, a Calgary resident with cultural ancestral roots from the Aymara people of the Andes. Image © Mojdeh Kamali and Sasha Simic, 2021.

 

Committee

This project is conceived and developed by d.talks and AEDE volunteers and in particular: Veronica Briseno Castrejon, Alfred Gomez, Mojdeh Kamali, Joy Olagoke, Sally El Sayed, Sasha Simic, Darshan Tailor, Sergio Veyzaga and Vincent Yong.

Find more about AEDE’s work here.

Watch the screening of Land and Memory event.