This note was written on June 4, 2017
• The specifically planned environment therapy element of an archive begins with a recognition of the complex nature of "experience" as such, the explicit concern for what being a holding place of past experience means generally, and what it means more particularly where there is history of trauma and deprivation.
• The specifically planned environment therapy element of an archive begins with an explicit recognition that past experience is a dynamic phenomenon, and that archives are a "living" thing. An archive is a container for complex emotions, and a locus for disputes and claims around rejection and belonging.
• The specifically planned environment therapy element of an archive begins with an explicit awareness that experience is complex, and that being a holding place of past experience gathers that complexity into one place.
• A specifically planned environment therapy archive begins with a recognition of the complex nature of "experience" as such, and particularly of the dynamic role of new experience and past experience where there is a history of trauma and deprivation. There is a recognition that being a holding place for past experience makes an archive whose collections revolve around deprivation and trauma a container for complex emotions, and a locus of both belonging and rejection.
