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Memories and the space in which we live are naturally endowed with imagination, context, narrative, and navigation. Home shows us intimately where we are, identity tells us who we are, storytelling connects us to others, and memory reminds us of time. A critical and practical examination of ordinary autobiography within the setting of the home, where most of what matters in our lives is lived out, has remained largely unnoticed. And yet what actually transpires inside the home has a significant and reciprocal relationship into the formation of personal and social identity, extending into historical identity. Although much has been theoretically written about memory, autobiography and home, there is a lack of visualised explorations correlating these three core aspects of human experience as a unified whole. How through the process of reconstructing rooms once lived in, can we foster a new method of recording our histories, our stories? How might this method be transferred as a collective vocabulary within the context of art and design? How does working with paper aid remembrance and retain its material value as a cultural archive? This paper will address these questions regarding visualised autobiography within the context of dwelling. (By: Pamela Salen Art Design and Architecture, Art Design and Architecture, Monash University )