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Modes of Engagement

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Modes of Engagement, presents memory and heritage projects that use stable elements and material artifacts, such as buildings and urban infrastructure, in a manner that supports dynamic and flexible engagements with the past. I describe here my 2012 exhibition in Nicosia, which included a series of visually layered maps, drawings, and 3D installations designed to illustrate their creation by many individuals remembering the past in different ways. Other examples of projects from Bosnia, Israel/Palestine, South Africa, and North America describe how scholars, designers, heritage practitioners, and community organizers can work with various groups in order to more effectively tell complex stories rather than polarized versions.

Where do memories reside? Where are they enacted, embodied, and performed?

The aroma of coffee is a return to and a bringing back of first things because it is the offspring of the primordial. It’s a journey, begun thousands of years ago, that still goes on. Coffee is a place. Coffee is pores that let the inside seep through to the outside. A separation that unites what can’t be united except through its aroma. Coffee is not for weaning. On the contrary, coffee is a breast that nourishes men deeply. A morning born of a bitter taste. The milk of manhood. Coffee is geography.

Memory for Forgetfulness, Mahmoud Darwish, 1982.

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Bakshi, A. (2017). Modes of Engagement. In: Topographies of Memories. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63462-3_6

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