The interdisciplinary project 'Places of Memory and Mnemonics' pursues an interest in the significance of the built environment for memory practice in society and culture. It focuses on how we use the environments to organise, retrieve, and disseminate memories. Against the background of this interest the project will study the potential to make films with digital video technology to provide with an alternative academic medium.
Mattias Ekman has presented work from his project at several international conferences and two book chapters will appear in print in 2011, published by Routledge and Rodopi, respectively.