Tom Tjon A Loi
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Speculative Care Product / AI & Memory
REmemory
Memory loss does not live in one mind. It lives in the whole family.
- Project year
- Project 2025Case study updated 2026
- Role
- Creative Lead · Concept Direction · Narrative Interface
- Status
- Winner · Hackathon / Techgrounds · Almere · 2025
- Project context
- Hackathon project · Techgrounds · Almere · 2025
00 · Project truth
- Central question
- How might families revisit and narrate memory together without presenting reconstruction as factual truth?
- Recognition
- Winner · HackathonTechgrounds · Almere · 2025
- Editorial note
- REmemory is not a medical or therapeutic product. Generated reconstructions are narrative interpretations, not objective memories.
Meaning before making
The gap this work had to close.
- 01 · The question
How might families revisit and narrate memory together without presenting reconstruction as factual truth?
- 02 · The shift
From AI as judgement to AI as reflection. From storing the past to creating a shared narrative space where families can revisit it together.
- 03 · The form
A care concept for remembering together without reducing memory to data.
01 · The human premise
We have archives. What we lack is a place to remember together.
The challenge is not simply to preserve more files. It is to protect connection when names, voices and shared histories become harder to reach—even when memories fade.
02 · The strategic reframe
Not AI as judgement. AI as reflection.
No score. No diagnosis. No system telling people what their past means. REmemory was conceived as a gentle layer that helps a family revisit, interpret and retell what already belongs to them.
03 · The experience
A shared place to remember together.
Families can revisit photographs and recordings, collect stories around familiar places and leave messages for future generations. The archive is collaborative by design: every voice can add context, while generated scenes remain visibly interpretive.
04 · Product principles
Technology that feels like care.
- 01
Interpreted memories
Generated reconstructions are framed as interpretations, never as objective records.
- 02
Collaborative storytelling
Everyone contributes. No single person owns the family story.
- 03
Memory spaces
Images, voices and places meet in one quiet, familiar environment.
- 04
Cognitive-sensitive design
Gentle guidance replaces alerts, scores and pressure.
- 05
Boundaries made visible
The concept makes authorship, access and generated material explicit without claiming a finished privacy architecture.
05 · Interface direction
The archive behaves less like storage and more like a room.
A restrained visual system lets dates, images and fragments sit beside one another without turning memory into a dashboard. An interactive UX prototype now tests this core experience across family, caregiver and memory flows.
06 · What exists now
The experience is tangible. The intelligence remains a proposition.
REmemory currently exists as an interactive UX/UI prototype and narrative framework. The AI reconstruction, voice synthesis and live memory layer have not been built—and are presented as future product possibilities, not finished technology.
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