Homes encode memory spatially so that rooms hold distinct pasts

Evidence

The old house, for those who know how to listen, is a sort of geometry of echoes. The voices of the past do not sound the same in the big room as in the little bed chamber.… Among the most difficult memories, well beyond any geometry that can be drawn, we must recapture the quality of the light; then come the sweet smells that linger in the empty rooms. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1518

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s ‘Grafting & Growth’ essay on how physical structures carry meaning; also connects to Proust’s madeleine and phenomenology of memory. — connects to: Embodied memory and felt landmarks constitute a profound knowing of place — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 40