Where My Street Remains
Layer 03 · Interactive media project
Home remembered through people.
Where My Street Remains uses voice notes, personal photographs and evolving maps to reconstruct Gaza as remembered by those who live there. Developed as an augmented reality installation and film, it combines mapping, testimony and visual storytelling to preserve memories of places that have been transformed, damaged or erased.
The project asks how people remember home when not only houses, but entire geographies, are destroyed or rendered unrecognisable. It responds to the erasure of Gaza’s urban cultural heritage by foregrounding memory, place and survival.
A street can remain in a voice, an image and the relationships that made it home.
Project voices · CIE Annual Report 2025
Project method
Testimony becomes a living map.
Personal images and recordings locate everyday life within streets, homes and landmarks. Together they form an evolving record of belonging that conventional maps cannot hold on their own.
The project brings these materials into film and an augmented reality installation, connecting intimate memory to the wider history of Gaza’s urban heritage.
Development pathway
From memory to public form
The work moves carefully from collection and co-creation toward an installation and film.
Voices and images
Voice notes, family photographs and remembered places are gathered with project participants.
Evolving maps
Personal memory is connected to changing urban geographies through mapping and visual research.
Installation and film
The project is being developed as an augmented reality installation and public film experience.
2025–2026 development
Project milestones
- Asem Al Jerjawi was evacuated from Gaza and the pilot entered a new production phase.
- The pilot received support through Immerse\Interact, the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Netherlands Film Fund.
- The team is preparing public presentation and further film development.
- Further funding is being sought for the next production phase.