Patel, ShreepaliCampana, StefanoFerdani, DanieleGraf, HolgerGuidi, GabrieleHegarty, ZackaryPescarin, SofiaRemondino, Fabio2025-09-052025-09-052025978-3-03868-277-6https://doi.org/10.2312/dh.20253101https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/dh20253101This short paper discusses the development of an ongoing project, Threads, a practice-led visual case study that seeks to excavate, illustrate and question encoded memory within transcultural inherited objects of the twice migrant diaspora. Driven by a need to coax memories from loss and posit an alternative interpretation to Indian diasporic histories (specifically twice migrant, India to East Africa and then to UK) and memories which cannot be expressed in Eurocentric terms, Threads explores and seeks to discover what Paul Gilroy (1988) [Gil88] described as the 'memory stored in safekeeping until a means of translation can be found.' As such, the process of development considers media archaeology, applied creative technologies, inherited media archives, intangible and fragile heritage, and transnational objects (textiles). Arguably the case study sits within the context of Stuart Hall's (1999) [Hal99] observation of the creation of 'the new' and the transgressive alongside the traditional and the 'preservation of the past.'Attribution 4.0 International License10.2312/dh.202531012 pages