Dr. Rebecca Dolgoy presents on climate witnessing at Memory Studies Association

Lab co-director Rebecca Dolgoy presented on the Ingenium Environment Collection on a “climate witnessing” panel at the annual Memory Studies Association Conference. This year’s conference took place from July 14th to July 18th in Prague.

Her presentation outlined Ingenium’s approach to developing the environment collection which, in addition to acquiring new objects, proposes an approach to reading the existing collection through the lens of climate. There are currently four distinct albeit connected climate narratives in the collection: 1) the technologies/systems/behaviours that have created and contributed to climate change; 2) the technologies/systems/behaviours that respond to climate change; 3) ways of studying climate change; 4) witnesses to climate change. In addition to outlining the collection, the presentation addressed ongoing efforts to develop these re-examinations.

Research will be shared in a forthcoming publication of the Memory Studies Review.