ABSTRACT
Paris 19: Mobility, Memory and Migration attempts to establish a multimedia framework that investigates 'collective memory' as a porous and multilayered product, thereby introducing a medium for conversation and growth that can question, propose and affect arts practice, architecture, education, self-organization, campaigning and policy. This chapter describes how the project used audio-visual media techniques to investigate storytelling formats that people could create and share. Photo-elicitation and narrative filmmaking techniques were employed to examine how people connect and disconnect in the neighbourhood, in relation to shifting social and infrastructural change occurring in North East Paris. At the time the project was carried out these ideas had not been explored in this manner. Therefore, connecting concepts of 'collective memory' with the shared histories, communal values and geographical concerns of migrant communities in France in this way, leads to new critical discourse about spatial division, structural change, social and cultural memory, conflict, cohesion, citizenship and migration in contemporary French society.
