Mnemonica: The Artwork Remembers

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: 'Mnemonica' is a conceptual design methodology for integrating a remembering artwork into the public realm using interactive design. It conceived of an artwork that employs sound, light, kinetics and interactive data-based systems to create new sensory relationships between people and place, building a sense of belonging to the larger community through the built environment. The research was presented in the form of a poster to the Korean Institute of Interior Design's (KIID) 10th International Invitation Exhibition, where it received an award based on its interior design approach. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: 'Mnemonica' explored how an artwork could interact with the community, and which actively turns away from preconceived architectural solutions that determine and constrict behaviours. It considers new ways through which artworks might become place-making agents - as a means through which people and environment co-create meaningful community. The method considers an artwork that remembers, and institutes relationships of care between people and environment, by encouraging community interaction, which consequently becomes an expression of community. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: ​'Mnenominca' was submitted to KIID's Invitation Exhibition - a multifaceted design event held on an annual basis with the aim of evolving into a specialised academic organization with an interdisciplinary perspective - where it was awarded a certificate of merit. It is part of a larger project by an interdisciplinary design research team, which developed in into the artwork 'touchstone' which was installed for the City of Casey in 2017.