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This chapter develops around a community mapping methodology and its fieldwork. Community-centred visualisations, growing out of emplaced stories and affects, may be able to channel otherwise elusive imaginaries and the ephemeral mnemonic spaces encountered in fieldwork. For Ricoeur, telling stories can give shape to ephemeral, intangible elements of everyday life. What of the intangible elements of everyday life and storytelling that are remembered collectively and individually, but do not necessarily leave a physical trace? This chapter engages with one such visualisation, a memory-map of the village of Kibblesworth in northeast England, populated with the present and past imaginings of a community of people and of an open-air museum. The museum embodies the imagination of place and of local/non-local memory construction, as it prepares to ‘reassemble’ and exhibit a terrace of prefabricated concrete houses removed from Kibblesworth in the new 1950s town.
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Notes
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In this project, I take co-researchers to mean a pool of 80 current and past residents of the villages of Kibblesworth and Old Ravensworth in greater Gateshead who donated their time, memories, and expertise to the design and production of Remaking Beamish and who were the primary authors of the community memory mapping side of the project.
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Here, by academic researchers and curators, I refer to heritage professionals whose professional duties entail paid activities and projects, which community co-researchers usually engage in on an unpaid and voluntary basis.
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De Nardi, S. (2019). Community Memory Mapping as a Visual Ethnography of Post-War Northeast England. In: Drozdzewski, D., Birdsall, C. (eds) Doing Memory Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1411-7_10
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