How do we remember violence that has shattered us? In this workshop, we explore how memories of traumatic incidents are often fragmented, isolated, and left to the individual to bear.

The Grenfell Tower fire was a national tragedy. Its truth cannot be fully grasped through timelines or spatial analysis alone, but must also be understood through its impact on those who lived through it.

We introduce situated testimony—a bespoke methodology developed within Forensic Architecture—as a tool for building collective memory. Using digital modelling and spatial reconstruction, we revisit the site of the incident to reassemble fragmented experiences. This approach allows us to speak across difference, and to articulate a shared truth in spaces such as tribunals.

Together, we will explore how this practice opens pathways to accountability, reparation, and the intergenerational transmission of memory—so that what happened is neither forgotten nor carried alone.