Spatial Memory

PROJECT STATEMENT

Spatial Memory enacts playfulness, community, and cognitive recall. It offers visitors an opportunity to rediscover the joys of childhood play while promoting and fostering a connection between individuals and their environment. The interactive installation recreates the working mechanisms of bead maze children's toys, on an impressive scale.

Playing with a bead maze in the doctor's waiting room as a child is the inspiration for this project. By enlarging the scale and transforming it into an interactive installation, visitors are encouraged to use their entire bodies to maneuver the beads along the tracks. This physical engagement will trigger both motor memory and episodic memory. Spatial Memory activates not only the conscious and unconscious memories of visitors, but also generates a physical memory within the grounds of the University of Connecticut Avery Point campus.