This project explores the tension between rapid urban development and the subtle erosion of emotional and cultural landscapes. Using the metaphor of "brokenness," it reflects on the disappearance of urban villages and the fading of communal memory spaces. Drawing on Jan Assmann’s theory of cultural memory and the concept of lieux de mémoire (sites of memory), the work examines how physical disintegration often parallels emotional dislocation.
The project reimagines broken structures not as symbols of decay, but as vessels of memory—remnants of lives, stories, and identities embedded in place. By embracing both damage and repair, The Dual Properties of Brokeness proposes a poetic resistance to forgetting—an invitation to feel, to remember, and to question the cost of progress.