Data as memory: Contemporary memory collection practices in extended interiors

Abstract

This essay puts interiority to work as it examines the transformation from analogue memory collection housed in physical artifacts to the contemporary practices of digital memory collection where memory is packaged and preserved as data. Smartphones in particular offer a different mode of connectivity to extended interior spaces as technology re-defines the collection memory and the ways in which we remember. This essay follows and unravels extended interiors for how they operate shaping space and the human behaviors within those spaces.

Keywords:

• Interiority
• extended interiors
• smartphones
• technology
• data as memory
• becoming
• contemporary collection practices

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Sonya Grace Türkman

Dr. Sonya Grace Türkman is an Assistant Professor in the Interior Design department at The University of Nebraska - Lincoln. As an international scholar and design educator her research focuses on the physical and digital modalities of design education studying the extensions of interiority enabled by new technologies and the ways in which technology can improve creativity in the design process. Dr. Türkman holds a PhD in Art from The University of Georgia, a Masters degree in Interior Design from The Savannah College of Art and Design and a Bachelors of Business Administration from The University of Georgia. Website: www.sonyagraceturkman.com, Email: [email protected]