Abstract
Landscape often functions as the final carrier of suppressed memory of mass violence. This pilot project aims to test and (further) develop a new research model, based in a digital research environment, that enables historians to expose, analyse and visualize the continuous interaction between infrastructures of mass violence, landscape and memory. The web-based application involved 'named nodegoat (nodegoat.net) 'is developed by LAB1100 in collaboration with the main applicant in order to combine small-scale spatial-chronological visualisations with a networked analysis of memories and site appropriations. In this project the 1965 anti-communist violence in Semarang functions as case study. This Indonesian city is geographically marked by an officially forgotten 'chain' of places of mob violence, temporary detention, interrogation, torture, murder and mass burial. It therefore offers an ideal opportunity to map a 'memory landscape' by collecting individual memories, connecting them to specific sites, and exploring the contemporary appropriations of these sites. Students from the Environmental and Urban Studies Department of the Universitas Katolik Soegijapranata (UNIKA) will collect the required data during a workshop that combines oral history and anthropological site research. The digital research environment in turn will enable us firstly to archive, reconstruct and visualize autobiographical trajectories through time and space, secondly to trace more general structures in the organisation of mass violence, and thirdly to link this information with localized public memory.