Memory Community
记忆社区
A Memory Factory for Living Community based on Abandoned Factories
基于废弃工厂的居住社区记忆工厂
2019
Introduction
Memory Community A Memory Factory for Living Community based on Abandoned Factories
Advisor: Yang Zhenjing
- Teammate of Original Project: Yang Han
Individual Design Development based on Collaborative Studio Work with Yang Han
95% Individual Idea and Drawing
2019 Spring, Chongqing
Content
“Invented Tradition is taken to mean a set of practices, normally governed by overtly or tacitly accepted rules and of a ritual or symbolic nature, which seek to inculcate certain values and norms of behavior by repetition, which automatically implies continuity with the past.”
Eric Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition, 1992
“Community is Imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.”
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Community, 1991
[1] Community Production Mechanism - Deconstruct the Replacement of Public Community in China
Based on the community theory of Anderson, the imagined community is not a type of community, but a cognitive process to perceive the existence of the whole community. The process is stimulated by repetitive self-organized activities and traditions, and it is also a part of the community production. Without related process, community may not be built or formed successfully.
When we try to use the community production theories to understand status quo of nowadays physical public community in Chinese cities, we could find that real estate is the most common and modern community built with strict capital interference and calculation, which finally makes it fail to be a good living community. Generally, the real estate will not care about whether residents in the real estate living community do have the same spontaneous behaviors, interests or traditions with other residents or not, based on their business benefits. On the other side, residents also don’t have the right to choose their ideal neighbors. Moreover, out of economic thoughts, real estate is always designed to be a block with lots of compact living units without large public living space and open boundary to other street blocks. All these factors lead to the lack of self-organized activities and traditions in most real estate living communities in China.
Internet community is replacing the living community to serve as a public sphere, as the real estate living communities are not built successfully. Although with some limitation to the global internet, the internet community and several domestic social media provide open platforms for citizens to have spontaneous discussion and invent internet-based traditions for their online community. The internet community is also one with commercial mechanism, which is not a system with strict capital control and interference, making netizens have better chances to generate repetitive activities and traditions and finally build a community.
[2] Memory Factory as a kind of Medium - Reconstruct Physical Community through Community Imagination Construction
This project explores to reconstruct the local physical community based on the imagined community theory. Through the community imagination construction, physical community is expected to be built within a series of mechanical processes. Each mechanical process in the imagination construction is based on Production, Transportation, Exchange and Storage of citizens’ individual memory.
引言
记忆社区 基于废弃工厂的居住社区记忆工厂
指导教师：杨振菁
- 原项目合作者：杨涵
基于与杨涵合作工作室作品的独立设计深化
95% 个人创意与图纸
2019 年春，重庆
内容
“被发明的传统，是指一套通常由明示或默示规则所支配的实践，具有仪式或象征性质，旨在通过重复灌输某些价值观与行为规范，而这自动意味着与过去的延续。”
Eric Hobsbawm，《传统的发明》，1992
“社区是想象的，因为即便是最小国家的成员，也永远无法认识其大多数同胞，与他们见面，甚至听闻他们，然而在每个人的心中都存在着共同体这一意象。”
Benedict Anderson，《想象的共同体》，1991
[1] 社区生产机制——解构中国公共社区的替代
基于 Anderson 的社区理论，想象的共同体并非一种社区类型，而是感知整个社区存在的认知过程。这一过程由重复的自组织活动与传统所激发，也是社区生产的一部分。若无相关过程，社区可能无法成功建立或形成。
当我们尝试用社区生产理论理解当今中国城市实体公共社区的现状时，可以发现房地产是最常见、最现代的社区形式，在严格的资本干预与算计下建造，最终难以成为良好的居住社区。一般而言，房地产并不关心居民是否与邻居拥有相同的自发行为、兴趣或传统，这源于其商业利益。另一方面，居民也没有权利选择理想的邻居。此外，出于经济考量，房地产往往被设计为拥有大量紧凑居住单元的街区，缺乏大型公共生活空间及向其他街道街区开放的边界。这些因素导致中国大多数房地产居住社区缺乏自组织活动与传统。
互联网社区正在替代居住社区，充当公共领域，因为房地产居住社区未能成功建立。尽管全球互联网存在一定限制，互联网社区及若干国内社交媒体为公民提供了自发讨论的平台，并为线上社区发明基于互联网的传统。互联网社区同样具有商业机制，但并非严格资本控制与干预的体系，使网民更有机会产生重复性活动与传统，最终建成社区。
[2] 记忆工厂作为一种媒介——通过社区想象建构重建实体社区
本项目探索基于想象共同体理论重建地方实体社区。通过社区想象建构，期望在一系列机械流程中建成实体社区。想象建构中的每个机械流程均基于市民个体记忆的生产、运输、交换与储存。