PROJECT DESCRIPTION

AMA Constructing Memory Interactive Art Book showcases the stories of 100 victims of state violence in Nicaragua and their families' demand for justice. Through QR codes the audience can access video testimonials, photographs, and maps (hand-drawn maps and GIS) that localize the murders of each victim, and 3D replicas of altars created by their families to honor their loved ones with objects that belonged to the victims.

The book aims to translate the museum experience into a portable object and transgress the Nicaraguan state of repression and censorship and reach wider audiences outside Nicaraguan borders including Nicaraguans in exile and diaspora. The AR experience design proposes collective rituals of mourning to remember the victims.

This AR experience is part of a larger transmedia participatory digital project titled “AMA y No Olvida”, trans. “Love and do not forget: Memory Museum against Impunity” that was created in collaboration with the families of the victims organized in the Association Mothers of April (AMA), with a human rights and participatory approach, to support the families' organizing efforts, dignify the victims who have been denied justice and as a way to challenge the climate of impunity that the regime wants to install.

PROJECT INFORMATION

Entry Type: Series / Campaign Entry

Channel: Cross-Media

Primary Role of the Designer: Designer as activist

Client Relationship: An in-house on-going relationship

Intention of the Project: Introduction of a new product, service, or program

Development Budget: Less than $2,500

Production/Execution Budget: Less than $5,000

Source of Funding: Nonprofit/NGO/trust fund

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CREDIT INFORMATION

Creative Director: Emilia Yang Rappaccioli

Art Director: Blandón

Designers: Blandón

Researchers: Margarita Vannini, Sylvia Ruth Torres, María Patricia Lindo Jerez

Developers: AR Creative Production Emilia Mason, Experience Design Ana Carolina Estarita Guerrero, Developer Alanna Cassias Foilose

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Photographer: Ana Sequeira, Camaleoni Mapache, Jambado, Salvador Zelaya

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Other Credits: 3D Artist Juanita Rubio

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