Flashback Shanghai is an archive of my memories associated with certain places in my hometown Shanghai China. Every week, I create a web design entry based on my recollection at a location in the city that is special to me. It can be a bike ride on a road, a stroll at at a park, a contemplation at a coffee shop, etc. Apart from documenting the dates and the geographic locations, I document my emotions and miscellaneous objects I saw along the way (or any conversations and encounters with people) by using symbols, emojis and illustrations. Photographs from my camera roll are present in many of my entries, as I think they are precious momentos that weave the mood and the imagery into visual collages. In some entries, I come up with a bilingual catchline or a line of poem in English and Chinese that summarizes the piece of memory, adding a poetic sense to the page. At the end of the project, I take all of memory pieces and integrate them into a map of my urban memory. In this post-pandemic era, I wish to create sincere iterations on the concept of urban memory that restores my memoryscape COVID-free.
We will start our journey from my home, Shuicheng Rd. station...