Spomenik: resurrecting voices in the woods

Spomenik (‘monument) is a digital memorial architecture that transposes in time otherwise hidden cultural memories of atrocity. Spomenik was designed as a simple digital audio guide, embedded in a remote rural location (Kočevski Rog, Slovenia), and working without the infrastructure normally present at national memorial sites. By resurrecting voices and cultural narratives of the deceased, positing them back in to the landscape through digital means, Spomenik opens a dialogue about the events of the past, in relation to networks of the living, exploring the role of voice and agency, as serviced through design in the act of memorialization. We contribute a detailed case study of a design-led inquiry about digital memorialization and digital preservation of cultural heritage, and a reflective account about the nature of legacy and the extent to which it is (and perhaps should be) necessarily bound to networks of collective memory, mediated through designed cultural tools

Roundtable Discussion: Help Save the Next Girl

Help Save the Next Girl is an organization started in 2010 by the parents of Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student murdered in Charlottesville in October 2009. The organization\u27s primary goal is to sensitize young women and girls to predatory danger, especially in college and university settings. This roundtable discussion has two purposes: It is intended to provide an opportunity for members of their own campus chapters to network with members of other chapters and share ideas for programming, recruitment, fundraising, and similar initiatives. It is also intended to help students whose campuses do not have an HSTNG chapter learn about how to start one