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Baksbat (Broken Courage) : A Memorial for Reclamation Pann, Jenny Hoangkim

Abstract

Baksbat (broken courage) is a memorial project situated on an abandoned airport site in Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia. The project asks if memorials are poems in built form, could spatializing poetry in design be applied to evoke memories in Cambodia and in the diaspora as a way of healing? The memorial explores cultural metaphors of post-violence as the emotional domain for conceptualization and traditional ceremonies as means of materialization. The project reframes the memorialization of historic violence as a personal and public process. Specifically, to address the dissonance between the state narrative of atrocity and the accumulating public anecdotes. The project shifts the memorial towards built registrations of memory over time that facilitates both the remembrance of history and reclamation of land. The project is a vision of a memorial that reveals the complex layers of history but lets the people write the poem for themselves.

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Title
Baksbat (Broken Courage) : A Memorial for Reclamation
Creator
Pann, Jenny Hoangkim
Date Issued
2021-12
Description
Baksbat (broken courage) is a memorial project situated on an abandoned airport site in Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia. The project asks if memorials are poems in built form, could spatializing poetry in design be applied to evoke memories in Cambodia and in the diaspora as a way of healing? The memorial explores cultural metaphors of post-violence as the emotional domain for conceptualization and traditional ceremonies as means of materialization. The project reframes the memorialization of historic violence as a personal and public process. Specifically, to address the dissonance between the state narrative of atrocity and the accumulating public anecdotes. The project shifts the memorial towards built registrations of memory over time that facilitates both the remembrance of history and reclamation of land. The project is a vision of a memorial that reveals the complex layers of history but lets the people write the poem for themselves.
Subject
Memorial; Memory; History; Violence; Poetry; Reclamation
Geographic Location
Cambodia
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2021-12-24
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0406121
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80506
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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