Presence in particular is a type of memory that many people engage with in many different ways... Their presence at places can be marked in a variety of ways. When people make a phone call they are often 'checking in... letting people know where they are, where they have been, where they are going to be i.e. their presence at different places.
Places can be captured visually or descriptively.... by means of photography, video, writing and storytelling. Susan Weinschenk, Pd.D writes in 100 things every designer should know about people on page 76 that 'People process information best in story form.... Stories are very powerful.They grab and hold attention. But they do more than that. They also help people process information and they imply causation.'
Things can be of any size, they are be carried around or left in a particular space. They can either have a utility, emotional value or be just for fun. It could be said that everything that doesn't fit into those categories is just junk. Things which are fun might also have an emotional value; being connectors to positive experiences. Things with utility are necessary to people. They could be carried around or left in a convenient place for easy usage. They can be captured in the same way as anything else. They can have 'scars' of usage or be personalised or customised. I wouldn't have thought that people would capture memories OF things especially of things that have emotional value, instead the things would be the physical manifestations of memories i.e. memento's. As explored earlier, 'things' can be links to memories of people, places or points in time.
Memories of people can take any form..... from the physical to non-physical. A keepsake, a photograph or even a smell.
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