Jacqueline Fair
Jacqueline Fair
For Nostalgia’s Sake
This project investigates the role of nostalgia in our collective memories through storytelling, sensory experiences, and personal artifacts. Presented as a physical collage-based narrative publication, the work explores how physical objects, space, sound, and design function as vessels for emotional truth, memory, connectedness, and continuity.
Through a series of interviews with family, friends, and members of my community, this work gathers both the personal and the collective, asking: What does nostalgia mean to you? These stories highlight the often-overlooked intersections between personal history, collective identity, and our outlook on the future.
Rooted in design studies, this project merges qualitative research, storytelling, poetic narrative, and graphic design resulting in a living archive, a tangible collage of moments meant to be held, heard, felt, seen and shared. Nostalgia, in this context, is reframed not just as longing for the past, but as a tool for understanding self, building intergenerational connection, and shaping human legacy.
Ultimately, this work affirms that memory matters: how we remember, what we remember, and why it is our duty to share it.
This is truth.This is remembrance.This is storytelling as preservation
For nostalgia’s sake...
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