name

Johanna Hörrmann (johannahoerrmann)

country

germany

university

Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig

department

Communication Design

university address

Johannes-Selenka-Platz 1
38118 Braunschweig

university country

germany

url

http://www.hbk-bs.de

id

0010973

title

Memorabilia. Mapping my family / Lebenslinien

professor(s)

Prof. Ulrike Stoltz, Prof. Klaus Paul, Arne Zerbst

rank

665

tags

editorial design information architecture typography

year of making

2009

project url

http://johannahoerrmann.de/projekte/memorabilia/

uploaded

2010-07-07 16:10:24

"We found you! This map has traveled to you to tell you something about our families and ask you about your story. Open the map, leave your mark and share your journey of life."

Memorabilia is a collection of traveling maps that are handed on from loved one to loved one, uniting a family’s locations, anecdotes and paths of life. As a family atlas, Memorabilia can inspire exploration, spark memories, treasure our families’ history and pass it on. This is where I’m mapping my family.

Based on my families’ present paths of life, I developed folding maps of Germany, Europe, North America and the world. Each map is enclosed in a folder providing bilingual texts which introduce the unsuspecting recipient to the project and offer step-by-step instructions to participate. Reusable envelopes make it easy to forward the map, its further route can be tracked on an accompanying project website. A binder stores blank maps as well as the ones that have returned.