ABSTRACT
The convergence of such disparate concepts as memory and space in a single field of research (as is observable in numerous spheres of the humanities) is to a certain degree conditioned by the specific features of the contemporary cultural situation; in particular, by the changing dynamics of our surroundings, which are undergoing ever more frequent transformations. The rapid transformations of spaces one has grown accustomed to, the disappearance of the habitual landscape and the formation of new surroundings intensify the onlooker’s feeling of time. That which only yesterday was now and constituted an element of present-day reality, today becomes then, a thing of the past, to be forgotten or, perhaps, remembered. In this way the topic of memory turns out to be closely connected to issues of the conservation (or reconstruction) of a reality that is either disappearing or already has disappeared.
