Fragments of Memory : Blackpool
Who does the city remember?
Fragments of Memory reimagines civic space as an infrastructure for collective care, sensory navigation, and cultural continuity, centering the experiences of the ageing community and people living with dementia. Set in and around Blackpool’s Grand Theatre, the project challenges the static rituals of heritage by proposing memory as a live, spatial practice - not preserved in stone, but enacted through movement, routine, and pause. The Memory Corridor becomes a connective threshold between old and new, designed to support recall through light, material, and rhythm.
Rather than offering spectacle, the project foregrounds the value of the everyday: markets, community rooms, co-working, and moments of stillness - all choreographed to honor slow navigation and informal gathering.
By reclaiming ritual as design strategy, Fragments of Memory resists speed, clarity, and exclusion. It proposes a softer civic typology - one where remembering together becomes a public act, and architecture performs care through space.
