Individual Memory
Life experiences, career decisions, pivotal events, and stories left untold.
Life history · Memoir · Personal timeline
SOCIAL MEMORY PROJECT / VOL. 01Every life is part of its time
SOCIAL MEMORY, KEPT HUMAN
Lived memory.
Shared history.
Ren Jian Jing Wei begins with human interviews and trusted sources. Through Zhongyipu, our social memory platform, we connect lived experiences across individuals, families, organisations, places, and industries so that everyday voices can be preserved, understood, and passed on.
INTERVIEW EXCERPT / TEXT
“I first left home when I was nineteen...”
ARCHIVE FIELD / 001
SOURCES CONNECTED
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WHAT IS ZHONGYIPU
A memory
never belongs to one person alone.
It connects families and organisations,
places and times.
Zhongyipu is more than a database. It is a social memory system that preserves sources, maps relationships, represents differing accounts, and supports long-term stewardship.
6memory layers
100%source traceability
∞room to grow
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From one interview to a memory archive built to endure
FROM STORY TO ARCHIVE
FOLLOW THE PROCESS
AUTHORISATION / 01
Set the boundaries first.
Then open a memory.
Before an interview begins, we establish who will narrate, which parties are involved, what sources are in scope, who the audience is, and how withdrawal works. The authorised contributor decides what can be made public and what remains within the family.
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Consent & Source ChecklistZYP—001
SourceRelationTimeAccess
“Tell me first who will be able to see this memory.”
Narrator / Original sources / Consent scope / Preservation
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From one life to a connected map of social memory
MEMORY LAYERS
ONE STORY, MANY LINKS
Family Memory
Intergenerational ties, migration paths, family values, and shared experience.
Family archive · Visual family chronicleSchool Memory
Stories of students and teachers, campus life, and changing educational traditions.
Oral school history · Alumni memory archiveBusinesses & Organisations
Founding journeys, key contributors, technological change, and organisational culture.
Corporate oral history · Experience repositoryCommunities & Cities
Neighbourhood change, local traditions, and traces of shared everyday life.
Community memory map · Urban oral historyIndustries & Eras
Technical inheritance, professional experience, institutional change, and generational transition.
Industry oral history · Professional lineageTHE MEMORY NETWORK
Select a point.
See how memories
connect.
One experience may belong at once to a person, a family, a school, and a city. Zhongyipu preserves these connections while keeping differences between accounts visible.
PERSON · INTERVIEW ARCHIVE
One narrator's life as a thread
We begin with one person's experience, identify memory points linked to family, place, school, and work, then connect them with the accounts of others for context and corroboration.
Source status: awaiting narrator confirmation
A human interview is more than a recording. It is an act of understanding context, finding threads, and caring for memory.“
We do not sum up
a life for anyone.
We give the time back
to the narrator.
Interviewers build trust, navigate emotion, and ask deeper questions. AI is used only to make archival work more efficient.
AI WITH SOURCES
AI connects sources.
It does not speak for people.
AI can support transcription, map relationships, build timelines, flag conflicting sources, and retrieve material. Every significant account should remain linked to its original source, and where evidence is absent, the system must say, “I don't know.”
Confirmed by narrators or relevant parties Original sources remain traceable Access and retention can be controlled
Text interaction demoWhich source supports this answer?
Demo response: it comes from an interview transcript and photo captions confirmed by the narrator. A live system would link every answer to its original source and never present an unrecorded claim as fact.
Source demo: interview transcript 03:08:16 · Awaiting narrator confirmationThis is an interface demo. It does not access a microphone or live AI model.
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Different layers of memory, different forms of record
SELECTED DIRECTIONS
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES
The examples below are anonymised concepts. Published projects require permission from narrators or relevant parties, with source and editorial status identified separately.
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A HUMAN-CENTRED ARCHIVE
Technology connects sources.
Clear boundaries make memory trustworthy.
01Significant accounts link back to original recordings, photographs, documents, or other sources
02Different accounts of the same event coexist; disagreements and unverified details remain visible
03Authorised contributors decide who has access, how long material is retained, and whether it can be downloaded, transferred, or withdrawn
04AI-generated content is clearly distinguished from original accounts and never invents unsupported answers
START WITH A CONVERSATION
Tell us what kind
of memory you want
to preserve.
It may be a family member's life, a school's history, an organisation's experience, or the shared memory of a neighbourhood, city, or industry.
About 2 minutes3 simple stepsDetails used only for this first conversation