Holocaust Memorial Day installation
Students and Ex-Students from MA Industrial Design worked with the MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments course to create an installation for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day.
The 27th January commemorates the day in 1945 when Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. This year’s theme is The Legacy of Hope and the installation played a central role in the event at Guildhall.
The installation consisted of 20 life-size 3-sided obelisks (steles?) constructed from slabs of solid wax. Each contained a candle to be lit by survivors of the Holocaust and survivors of subsequent genocides who were accompanied by young people from across the Capital.
Project Team (MAID): Ryan Barkataki, Nick O Neill
Project Team (CPNE): Sam Willis, Abi Shapiro, Pamela Parker, Pearl Sun, Jing Jing Ha, Matt Haycock, Stephanie Ip
Design Production: Vincenzo DiMaria, Bruno Taylor
Project management: Tricia Austin, Sarah Featherstone architects, Sam Willis.
Images: Courtesy of project team and HMD (holocaust memorial day trust).
