Lamentations, A Social Observatory Part 1 Project 2017 Paolo KirstenGemma Annear University of Pretoria | South Africa Built within the Heldeakker or ‘Heroes Acre’ of the Old Church Street Cemetery, Pretoria, an infrastructure surrounding an enigmatic machine produces and archives the objectively and uncompromisingly true life story of each and every soul in the city. Beneath the graves lie the massive vaults, at first a seemingly endless archive, then a near forgotten ruin. Paolo KirstenGemma Annear Tutor(s)