The memory project – an ethnographic design research experiment

Memory is an essential function. We use it to function normally in the most mundane interactions.

A question in conversation is remembered and an answer is given reply. The questioner remembers the question they asked and places then interprets in that context.

When you sit down your body remembers how to sit. It is a visceral memory?

A pen may be just a pen or it may be a pen that has been given as a gift and retained because it has an attached memory.

Sometimes you forget to bring your mobile phone with you when you are going out. Mis-remembered?

A more formalised memory is contained in a mounted photo frame on the mantelpiece.

The project Memory should be undertaken using a simplified ethnographic design research method.

The overall objective of the project is to propose new memory related products and services.