Feel Me Speak Part 2 Dissertation 2019 Sarah Niamh Roseway-Jones Oxford Brookes University Oxford | UK This study seeks to explore the notion of narratives within architecture and how we can design to include them within our buildings. Looking at the writing of Gaston Bachelard and David Littlefield, this research examines how imagination and the physical can be interwoven to create a subversive architectural experience. Following an act of retaliation, on the 10th June 1944 the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was massacred by the German SS Waffen. Almost all inhabitants of the village were murdered, and the structure itself destroyed by fire. In the years that followed this event, the French government declared the village to be a memorial site, thus halting any future regeneration of occupation. A ‘new’ village of Oradour-sur-Glane was built in the close vicinity with some survivors returning to continue their lives in the place they called home. Reflecting on this singular moment, and the acts that froze time, the narratives explored in this writing consider the past, present and the future and seek to understand ways in which we can be adaptive for future use when designing for these narratives. Tutor(s) Hannah Durham Mike Halliwell