Spatial Imaginations: The Reconstruction of Memory

Abstract

This thesis explores Vietnam in 2150 in the aftermath of a devastating flood that erases the past, present, and future memories of the country. Using storytelling as a tool, the thesis will retrace history to reconstruct the contours of the country as a way of remembering. It will re-examine the nature of unreliable memory as the starting point to rewriting the story of the past. Through these reimagined histories, how can the future that has yet to happen, be remembered differently? Presented in three different forms, the thesis remembers Vietnam as many different countries.