MEMORY BOXES

Kedainiai, 9th of January 2013

FIRST RESULTS OF QUESTIONNAIRE PHASE

Made by Prometeo, ITALY

8 questions were sent on FB on 12.12.2012 at 15:15

In this period of December 2012 Prometeo submitted online the questionnaire with the main 8 questions that we decided to ask to people

We sent the questionnaire online via Facebook for 43, and via email to 178 different addresses, total = 221

Some data about WHO Answered

We got 18 answers, 5 males (27,7%) and 12 females (72,2%)

Age range, 25-52

Countries: Albania (1), Bulgaria (1), Germany (3), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Lithuania (2), Latvia (2), Macedonia-Fyrom (1), Romania (2), Russia (1), Serbia (2)

MAIN QUESTIONS-1

1. When you think about your childhood what images/ scenes come to your mind ?

2. Which kind of object have you ever touched left the strongest feelings in you ? (positive or negative, and why ?)

3. Do you remember any noise, sound, music that had a strong influence on you (positive or negative) ? Which ones ?

MAIN QUESTIONS-2

4. Are there any tastes that you associate with your childhood or your past ? (e.g. milk-breakfast, chocolade-friends, etc.)

5. Can you think of any smells that you will never forget ? Which one ?

6. Are there any historical events that you remember which had an impact on you ? (e.g. Armstrong on the Moon)

MAIN QUESTIONS-3

7. when you see a landscape / city / school / office / mountain  which kind of smell do you remember - in your mind - as first ? (choose and match, e.g. mountain & milk, sea & salt)

8. if you are in the same place, which kind of sound do you associate with them ? (e.g. Alps & sounds of cows)

1. When you think about your childhood what images/scenes

come to your mind ?

Lay in a hill, play football (4), meeting friends (2), first embarassing situation, canoing, lay on the beach, my grandmother’s garden (4), in the nature with animals (2), videogames

1. When you think about your childhood what images/scenes come to your

mind ? The best description is :I was waiting for my father after his work every

afternoon at the end of the street we lived. Then I sat in his lap in the car and I steered the car; We were at a lake in summer holidays and we

lived in tents, no other people around, it wasn't a known place in that time. (We usually went with

3-4 families together.) In the evenings men played card, and my father let me to handle the

coins and in the meantime I learnt to play card. 3 words come in my mind when I remember for

this: calm, carefree, paradise

2. Which kind of object have you ever touched left the strongest feelings in

you ? (positive or negative, and why ?)

The dog because afraid of thunder, paddle, sand (2), salty North sea, a fish, chocolate, snow, hot oven door, little ducks, Christmas tree, pure silk, stones made by polystyrene, soil

2. Which kind of object have you ever touched left the strongest feelings in

you ? The best description is :

The most vivid memories I have of the sense of touch is of a piece of candy dipped in sand

that my neighbour put in my mouth. The sand in my teeth is what I remember feeling. It was a very negative occasion. I had asked

her to share her candy and she said she would: then she told me to open my mouth

and close my eyes. I felt betrayed.

3. Do you remember any noise, sound, music that had a strong influence on you

(positive or negative) ? Which ones ?

U2, Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, Rod Steward, Sting (Russians), Alphaville (Forever young), Abba, Freddie Mercury, “If you leave me now”, Caffe de Flore, Theodorakis (Romlosyni), Beethoven (für Elise), Reggae, Chirstmas songs, river sound, night forest silence, Tom Jones Delilah

3. Do you remember any noise, sound, music that had a strong

influence on you ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs

3. Do you remember any noise, sound, music that had a strong

influence on you ?

My parents used to play a lot of classical music. On Sunday mornings when it was time to get up for church, my Dad would turn the music up very

loud, to get us out of bed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVW8tgGY_w

4. Are there any tastes that you associate with your childhood or your past ? (e.g.

milk&breakfast, chocolade&friends), etc.)

Sweets fruits & Christmas, E-Germany & Vita-Cola, yogurth taste & big waffles, gele kandles in 3 colors & kakao, chocolate & cheese pancakes, nice candies & pickeld

pumpkins, car away tea & pancakes, bacon & onions, milk & vanilla wafers

4. Are there any tastes that you associate

with your childhood or your past ? The

best

Carrot sauce & lunch in the kindergarten (I didn’t eat this meal, and I don't eat it now

either); cakes & lunch every Saturday in the kindergarten with pink or other colors

creams (I hated these kind of cakes and I hate it now too); cherry & friends (we climbed on

the trees and eat from the tree)

5. Can you think of any smells that

you will never forget ? Which one ?

Jasmine scent, the sea smell, sandalwood, wood around the village, homme perfume,

after shave, lemon cologne, mom’s perfume, smell of bevelled grass, gingerbread, stock of

potatoes, wild violets, seaside air, female perfumes, baked bread

5. Can you think of any smells that you will never forget ? The best

When I was around 8 y.o. I was in a swimming suite. and I was jumping in a kitchen waiting

for the food. My mum was cooking for me any sousage.... I took a fog and wanted to catched it from the boiled water and split all hot water on my belly. So all summer I was lying in a bed

and still remember the smell of my burned skin, awful and painful.

5. Can you think of any smells that you will never forget ? The best

the smell of baked bread out of the oven when one reminds me of my

childhood, of my grandmothers. I close my eyes and inhale that smell of fresh bread.

A meal from egg-plant what my mother cooked for me for my birthday or when I returned from

a school trip, because it was my favourite meal. I still feel its taste and smell.

6. Are there any historical events that you

remember which had an impact on you ? (e.g.

Armstrong on the moon)

Moon landing, childhood deficit times, WWII on my family (2), E-Germany beated W-Germany in soccer on W-Championship (1974), the falling Wall (1989), end of dictatorship in Greece 1973, barricated in Latvia 1991, war in Afghanistan 1991, starving children during Biafra war, Munich 1972, soccer W-champions 1974, Twin Towers 2001

6. Are there any historical events that you remember which had an impact on you ?

(e.g. Armstrong on the moon)

Yes, I remember that I watched on TV landing and was fascinated

by that moment later I was disappointed to find out that it was just the movie, not real.

7. when you see a landscape/ city /school /

office/ mountain  which SMELL do you think - in

your mind - as first ? (choose and link, e.g. mountain & milk, sea & salt)

Blooming jasmine & vacations, mountains &eucalypthus, office & paper, school &

cafeteria, city & exhaust, typical smell & Latin Americans, sea & salt, milk & Stanislavskij,

wetlands & rain, G Micael & freedom, office & coffee, sea & fish, landscape & grass, city &

now, school & leather, mountain & parfume 4 men, mountain & pines, landscape & smell of fog, vulcano & sulphur, mountains & flowers

8. if you are in the same places, which SOUND

do you associate with them ? (e.g. Alps - sounds of

cows)

Arab countries-Muezzin+traffic noise, mountain-rushing air (wind) (2), city-pigeons cooing, school-

noise from children, office-printer calibrating, rustle - lake shimmer (e.g. when ice breaks down), sea-seagull, sea-waves (2), sea-wind, landscape-

birds (4), city-cars, school-bells, office-tel rings (2), mount-sound of trees, Italy-honks, Amsterdam-

bicycle bells, Vienna-Chirstmas market