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The Study of Forgetting
A field investigation by Niva Shah, 2025
This book studies how memory is recorded, reconstructed, and lost. It gathers fragments from psychology, design, and philosophy to explore the quiet patterns of forgetting. The year 1885 marks the beginning of scientific efforts to measure memory, when Hermann Ebbinghaus traced the slow decay of recall through repetition and time. Yet long before those experiments, forgetting existed as a natural architecture of the mind, shaping what survives and what fades.
Each fold unfolds as a surface of thought. Some retain information clearly while others blur or dissolve. The texture of the paper, the spacing of the lines, and the shifting light across the surface mirror the instability of memory itself. Forgetting is not failure but a form of design that allows meaning to emerge from what is lost.
The Study of Forgetting
A field investigation by Niva Shah, 2025
This book studies how memory is recorded, reconstructed, and lost. It gathers fragments from psychology, design, and philosophy to explore the quiet patterns of forgetting. The year 1885 marks the beginning of scientific efforts to measure memory, when Hermann Ebbinghaus traced the slow decay of recall through repetition and time. Yet long before those experiments, forgetting existed as a natural architecture of the mind, shaping what survives and what fades.
Each fold unfolds as a surface of thought. Some retain information clearly while others blur or dissolve. The texture of the paper, the spacing of the lines, and the shifting light across the surface mirror the instability of memory itself. Forgetting is not failure but a form of design that allows meaning to emerge from what is lost.