Archaeology Research Seminar – Mapping the Invisible: Walking, Memory, and the Traces of Fear | Dr Stelios Lekakis

You are cordially invited to the next Archaeology Research Seminar, where Dr Stelios Lekakis will present his lecture entitled “Mapping the Invisible: Walking, Memory, and the Traces of Fear.”

This talk introduces a transferable methodological framework that combines walk-and-talk interviews, phenomenological analysis, and mobile-based digital recording. The approach captures lived experience as it unfolds in space, with particular emphasis on pandemic heritage and climate change.
Participants were invited to walk along familiar routes while reflecting on memory, change, and environmental perception. Using a digital application, they mapped their trajectories and annotated specific locations with text, images, and audio.
This hybrid methodology enables the spatialisation of subjective experience and supports processes of co-curation “from below.” By bridging embodied walking practices with digital traces, the framework offers an innovative tool for participatory heritage research, climate studies, and commons-oriented documentation of everyday landscapes.