In MemoryLab’s Week 4 creative writing workshop, participants explored diverse writing styles and techniques, with a focus on personal storytelling.

Uratë used a strong, humorous voice to tackle personal subjects that are rarely addressed in Kosovar writing, while Artjola and Diona employed non-linear and fragmentary narratives to reflect on life events. Iden used a graphic novel format to examine identity and cultural belonging.

The workshop also covered practical elements such as writing dialogues, choosing appropriate tenses in graphic novels and nonfiction, engaging the reader through tone and voice, and building stories with intimate details and smooth transitions.

In our weekly lecture, participants watched Durim Klaiqi’s short film “reMemBer2.Human,” which explores personal and collective memories using AI tools. Following a discussion, Durim introduced key AI concepts such as latent space, data bias, convolution, and semantic mapping, highlighting their connections to memory. The group then engaged in an exercise to generate AI images based on personal photographs, discovering the capabilities and limitations of AI image generators.

Additionally, Durim demonstrated the use of photogrammetry, a technique for reconstructing past spaces, which he is utilizing in his upcoming film on Kosovo’s stolen artifacts.

Special thanks to Fondacioni 17 for the cozy environment at Rezidenca 17.