Witness That Place is a locative media project that explores interactivity through a series of online mappings and marked site-specific locations in the city indicating stories of trauma in public spaces. Working with the psychogeography of the city we are interested in the city's ability to repair itself from, what Nigel Thrift calls "urban trauma", (Nigel Thrift: But Malice Aforethought: Cities and the Natural History of Hatred, p.135, 2005).

We understand that sometimes these city spaces resonate with us and that it is personal. We have bad memories, we are reminded, we are triggered by place, and we even change our trajectories to avoid certain sites in the city. Witness That Place explores the possibility of changing the psychogeography of the city as well as the city's ability to repair and maintain itself.

We are interested in creating an alternative geography of the city which makes visible, memories of broken hearts, accidents, assaults, etc. Through the project's restorative counterpart - the "witnessing" of that place, the project attempts to create an active community that acknowledges each other's trauma, and, in a sense, explores the possibility of repair and maintenance of the heart and soul of the city.

Through this process, we have understood that notions of trauma, violence, memory and space, are about perception and we offer no judgment on people's interpretation of the above.