Activity 1: Summarize your experience as a group.
This can be an online space as a discussion board or note-taking software. Or it can be a poster in a classroom.
Activity 2: Exhibit a site of memory
Create an exhibition of one site of memory you visited and showcase them to your class. This can be on a poster or using a digital tool. Add critical thoughts and reflections.
Activity 3: Individual research
Look at all the sites of memory presented in your class. Compare them and think about:
- What sites of memory are relevant to what social groups? What social groups are represented more often and what social groups are represented less or not at all?
- What are the memories/ histories represented in the sites of memory. What are dominant narratives?
- What narratives are not represented or left out?
Activity 4: Share your thoughts
Share your findings from your individual reflection in a small group.
- Why are some memories represented more than others?
- What can we learn about a social group from sites of memory?
- Who is creating memorials and what are their reasons for (not) creating them?
Activity 5: Sites of memory and memory politics
Imagine you are the major of your town. You can create a site of memory. What site would it be and how would it look like? Explain your reasoning behind it.
Activity 6: Share your ideas for new sites of memory with your class.