When Home Is A Traceable Memory

The project “Home as a traceable memory” seeks to explore the routes taken by individuals to move from area of conflict to safer lands or to temporary hosting countries until the conflict in Sudan resolves. It aims to document complex interplay between land use, and community support roles in conflict, using maps and motifs derived from unease. Verbal recommendations played a significant role in the movement of people and their choice of routes during the war, this project follows the same approach where it will rely on storytelling and interviews for data excavation. The term “Safe Passages” has been on use since the 2018 revolution as a means to communicate secure information and allow for movement during protests. During the war it continues to appear on social media interactions when enquires were published about the best routes to leave Khartoum. This movement had a few demonstrated routes that people took whether they were leaving from Khartoum to other states or to other countries outside of Sudan. The same has been prevailed for those leaving from other states like Aljazeera. These routes of movement have resulted in the birth of temporary or transient cities that act as a passage. The project seeks to study, visualise, and analyse these routes and how these cities came to be what they are in the shadow of conflict. The project follows routes as they reach a temporary position, it does not focus on a final destination, yet it questions the motives behind the choice of movement.