Xin Hui Lim

To investigate the role of smells in remembering loss of cultural elements

We wanted to foster more conversations between the Pittsburgh community, visitors, and the hill district community. Memorialize the community space, items and people who were displaced, through a mixed media light display and projection technology triggered by tiles.

A web extension, Vault, that would allow a visualization of one’s deletion of personal content from their Facebook. This visual and/or sound effect would be something cathartic or satisfying. In addition, the sense of satisfaction (instead of emptiness, from deletion of content) could be further emphasized with a sort of abstraction of the content that was deleted.

Create a data representation that acts as memory cue