Listening to the Troubled Waters

The history of Lypyrtti, an old pilot village in the southwestern coast of Finland, is for many villagers a story of depopulation of a vital community during the last fifty years. In 2005 the villagers of Lypyrtti expressed their interest in collecting the oral history of their village. This material is gathered, edited and released in the context of research on the topic of 'narrated environment', which draws attention to the interdisciplinary methods and theories of the practices of place making

Active listening · Archaeology · Geography · Media studies · Oral history · Sociology · Communication · Data Analysis and Archiving · History · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis