Theme: Memory as Wound and Compass

Focus: Cities as containers of trauma and memory. Healing requires remembrance. Colonialism, displacement, dictatorship, apartheid, and war are wounds that also hold regenerative potential.

Research Basis: Memory as both Wound and Anchor; Remembering as Regeneration principle.

Thematic Action Ideas: Peaceful & Compassionate Cities (restorative justice, compassion charters, collective trauma healing).

Key Question: How can cities hold memory not as grievance but as guidance?

Expected Outcomes: Shared practices for collective trauma healing; pathways to transform memory into regenerative civic guidance.