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 ==== Memory Code ====
-Title of the book by Lynne Kelley. Ways of encoding environmental, ethological and cultural knowledge directly into the environment (or objects).
+Title of the book by Lynne Kelley. Ways of encoding environmental, ethological and cultural knowledge directly into the environment (or objects). Oral cultures tap into two immensely powerful forms of human memory for storing knowledge:
+  * our memory for geography: we may not be great at remembering list, but we are amazingly good at remembering places. Imagine your house. Almost nobody struggles to remember where the living room, bedroom, kitchen, toilet are, or even the furniture in those rooms. Modern memory champions still use this technique known as a memory-palace. Often the greek [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci|method of loci]] is pointed out as its origin, but that vastly underestimates how fundamental these principles were, stretching over tens of thousands of years of human history and across all continents.
+  * our memory of character: you may forget someones name, but you never struggle to remember someones personality. The expression that indigenous peoples “think stones and mountains are alive” they give them character.
 ==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ====
 Notes on a research program in collaboration with Sjef van Gaalen and Creative Coding Utrecht.
-=== Stage1 Landscape as Mindpalace ===
+=== Stage1: Landscape as Mindpalace ===
-<blockquote> Not only was his knowledge not reproduced in books like the ones he nevertheless wanted to write with me, but it had nothing to do with authorship. Knowledge didn’t originate with individuals, and the concept of mind was irrelevant. Knowledge was on the outside; it was held in ‘living Country’. And humans had to get together to animate this knowledge. - Stephen Muecke and Paddy Roe </blockquote>
+//Not only was his knowledge not reproduced in books like the ones he nevertheless wanted to write with me, but it had nothing to do with authorship. Knowledge didn’t originate with individuals, and the concept of mind was irrelevant. Knowledge was on the outside; it was held in ‘living Country’. And humans had to get together to animate this knowledge. - Stephen Muecke about Paddy Roe//
+=== Stage2: Hiking with Monsters ===
 ==== Hiking with Monsters at ArtEZ 2020/2021 ====