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This website was created under the responsibility of the project group "GeDenkOrt.Charité – Wissenschaft in Verantwortung" of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Directorate

Prof. Dr. Karl Max Einhäupl
rachel.seeling@charite.de
+49 30 450 570 001

Prof. Dr. Thomas Beddies
gedenkort@charite.de
+49 30 450 529241

Postal address

Projektgruppe "GeDenkOrt.Charité– Wissenschaft in Verantwortung"
c/o Vorstand der Charité– Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Campus Charité Mitte
Charitéplatz 1
10117 Berlin

Projektgruppe "GeDenkOrt.Charité– Wissenschaft in Verantwortung"
c/o Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin
Campus Benjamin Franklin der Charité
Thielallee 71
14195 Berlin

REMEMBER Artist Group
Concept and Realisation

Sharon Paz
Jürgen Salzmann
Karl-Heinz Stenz
and Danielle Ana Füglistaller

Host

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Zentrale Postanschrift: Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
Campus of the Charité
The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is a public institution and is represented by the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

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Content

Projektgruppe "GeDenkOrt.Charité – Wissenschaft in Verantwortung"
c/o Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin
Campus Benjamin Franklin der Charité
Thielallee 71
14195 Berlin

Webmaster

For technical questions, please contact: gedenkort@charite.de

Implementation

Concept & design: Andrew Fynecontry-de Bana
Technical implementation: gravity&storm GmbH

Photo Credits

REMEMBER Artist Group: Sharon Paz, Jürgen Salzmann and Karl-Heinz Stenz

Disclaimer

Liability for Contents

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User Guide

Before you begin

Get the ‘REMEMBER’ app

The app is available in the following formats:

1. Download-App

   • Available for download on iPhone and Android devices
   • Available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store
   • bei erfüllten Systemvoraussetzungen wird die Download-App für die volle Funktionalität der REMEMBER-App empfohlen.
   NOTE: For REMEMBER’s mobile app to be fully functional, the following system requirements must be fulfilled:
   • Operating System Requirements
     • iOS 11.3 or later / Android 4.4 or later
     • A minimum of 200 MB for installation
   • Required Settings:
     • Unlock GPS tracking to be guided to the path’s stations on the map
     • Unlock the camera to experience the app’s augmented reality content and to scan the sculptures providing you with each station’s content

2. Web Version (limited functionality)

   • Allows you to experience REMEMBER’s ‘Memory Path’ without having to download it beforehand (technical restrictions apply)
   • Operates over a web browser
   • Requires a permanent internet connection

3. Borrow a Tablet (limited availability)

   • Borrow a tablet from Charité with the app already installed on it.
   • For Information on the tablet loan contact the Berlin Museum of Medical History at Charité.

Settings

Please choose between:

• Download (recommended)
• Streaming

In the download option, all the app’s video and audio material will be downloaded onto your device.
You will also choose your preferred language and resolution setting:

• German or English
• 1080p (600 MB) / 720p (300 MB)/ 480p (170MB)
• Add subtitles if needed

The download time depends on your connection speed. Please leave REMEMBER app open and active whilst downloading!

In the streaming option, all the app’s video and audio material will be streamed via an internet connection. You can also select the video resolution:

• 720p (300MB) / 480p (170MB)
• Add subtitles if needed

Your device must be connected to the internet while walking the ‘Memory Path’ on the Charité grounds. It is best to connect it to a Wi-Fi Hot Spot whenever possible.

PLEASE NOTE:
A good internet connection is not always possible on the Charité grounds. It is therefore recommended to choose the download option instead.

Under ‘Settings’, you will be able to add subtitles and change the resolution and language settings any time.

Walking the ‘Memory Path‘

Introduction Video > Finding the Stations > Scanning the Sculptures > Experiencing the Stations >>>

• Introduction Video

  The introduction video will show you how to experience the ‘Memory Path’ and explain how to interact with each station. Although the video begins automatically, you can start them manually in the menu.

• Finding the Stations

  You can begin REMEMBER’s ‘Memory Path’ anywhere on the grounds of Campus Charité Mitte. The order in which you experience the stations is up to you. The app’s interactive map leads you to each station and gives you your current location. Using multi-touch gestures, you’re able to move the map and zoom in and out of it. For the app to be fully functional, however, you must give it permission to access your device’s camera and location.

• Scanning the Sculptures

  You will find a ‘REMEMBER Sculpture’ at each of the six stations. As you approach one of the stations, tap the pin on the map, a SCAN button will appear on your screen. Push it and the app’s scan mode will be activated.
  

  

  To retrieve the station’s media content, position your device in front of the ‘REMEMBER Sculpture’ so that a live image of the sculpture’s barcode appears on your screen. Upon doing so, you will immediately start interacting with the station.
  NOTE: This requires you giving the app permission to access your device’s location and camera.

Interacting with the Stations

Persecuted Science

• This station’s media content features augmented reality (AR) images. After being shown an introductory video, the app’s AR-browser will appear on your screen.
• Point your device’s camera at the building as seen in the picture below. The station’s AR content will only be fed to your device if you are holding your device vertically.
• By touching one of the silhouettes appearing on the screen, you will be given biographical information on that person. Tap the screen to continue the tour.
  
  

Neurology and Psychiatry

• A ‘video-walk’ has been designed for you to interact with this station. The video walkthrough can only be experienced at one location (Bonhoefferweg 3). In the video, the surroundings will match the surroundings of this specific location, giving you the impression of a live image.
• To experience the video walkthrough correctly, you will need to start the video directly in front of the ‘Neurology and Psychiatry Sculpture’.
• The video also begins at this location and leads you in and through the building while it’s being played.
• Follow the path filmed in the video. In other words, walk as if you were standing behind the camera and filming what you see in the video.
• While walking, focus on the architecture around you, not on the people in the video.
• Wearing headphones is highly recommended.

What to do if you go the wrong way or do not know where to go during the video walkthrough?

• Press PAUSE.
• Rewind the video using the scroll bar until you reach a point at which you were still ‘synchronized’ with the video walkthrough.
• Go back to this location and face the image shown on the screen.
• Press the PLAY/PAUSE button and continue the walkthrough video.

Gynecology

• After the introductory video, a 360° video will appear on your screen.
• Turn your body with your device to immerse yourself with the video’s content.

Learning and Teaching

• In the video, you will see a caretaker. Follow his path into the courtyard. If the door to the courtyard is locked, just continue watching the video from outside.
• After the video, a virtual “Volksempfänger” (=people’s receiver; the common radio receiver during the era of National Socialism in Germany) will appear on your screen. To change stations, touch the buttons shown on the virtual radio interface.

Anatomy

• An image of the Anatomy Building will appear on your screen. Swipe over the whole screen to open its façade and take a historical trip back in time.

Pediatrics

• Technical information isn’t needed at this station. Just enjoy the video!

Borrow a Tablet

It is possible to borrow a tablet for free with the REMEMBER app
at the Medical History Museum of the Charité
on campus: Virchowweg 17
Opening hours:
Tue-Sun 10.00-17.00
Wed and Sat 10.00-19.00

During the renovation of the museum, the tablets can be borrowed from the patient library, Bonhoefferweg 4

Press

PRESS RELEASE

REMEMBER– An Interactive Memory Path

Experience in a special way different aspects of the history of the Berlin Charité during the era of National Socialism. The REMEMBER app accompanies you on your journey through the Campus Charité Mitte. The app leads you to six memorial sculptures and opens up artistic perspectives on this dark episode of history. As an interactive memorial, REMEMBER brings traces of this past into the present. It connects current technologies with contemporary art and thus allows previously silent sites of remembrance to speak.

The memory path includes a free app for smartphones and tablets that features interactive video art, 360 degree videos, and augmented reality. Two fictional characters, a nurse and a caretaker, accompany visitors around the memory path and invite them to experience brief travels in time. Through the combination of different elements – the memorial sculptures, video art, and the original environment – REMEMBER creates a living remembrance.

"We want to emphasize respect for every human life and to initiate reflection on our own behavior."
REMEMBER is the public art project of Sharon Paz, Jürgen Salzmann and Karl-Heinz Stenz that was selected in an open call for the “Memory Path”.

GeDenkOrt.Charité is an interdisciplinary project and is a collaboration of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine, the University of the Arts Berlin and the Berlin Medical Historical Museum among others. The REMEMBER memory path and the historical exhibition at Bonhoefferweg 3, form the GeDenkOrt Charité – Science and Social Responsibility.

This project was made possible with the kind support of: Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, Friede Springer Stiftung, Freundeskreis der Charité e. V.
REMEMBER Flyer / Text from Matthias Reichelt