Intangible heritage and the built environment: Using multisensory digital interfaces to map migrant memories

This chapter explores the development of the arts and heritage project Mapping Memory Routes of Moroccan Communities and the theories behind its practice as research approach. Focusing on the process leading to the creation of the immersive multisensory installation Zelige Door on Golborne Road, it discusses the role that participation and digital technologies can play in developing research in contested and precarious social situations. The project demonstrates how communities, often excluded from the official heritage discourse, can benefit from methods that support democratic decision-making processes sustained by collective acts of belonging, forming new imaginaries and affecting changes in heritage practices.