The following images document the details and buildout of the Glenner Alzheimer’s Family Center. Located in Chula Vista California, adjacent to the US-Mexico border, The Glenner is a non-profit medical facility that specializes in immersive and interactive reminiscence therapy for adults who suffer from Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Housed within a 20,000 square-foot warehouse, the Glenner is designed to synthesize an interactive 1950-60s Americana experience. My interest in creating photographs about the space stems from my curiosity about this contemporary therapeutic attempt to use architecture and ephemera, for the sake of medicine, to connect people to age, history, geography and nostalgia. Through these images I imagine how the set design predicates a patient’s ability to understand that they are related to this fictionalized moment or place. As a result these images conjure the question “who belongs in downtown USA?” – a broad and complicated question. In conversation with the Executive Director Scott Tarde, one way patients often make connections to the space is through their memory of labor – performing as technicians, secretaries or homemakers within the staged storefronts and civic spaces. The Glenner’s ability to elicit the connection between service and identity is a curious point of exploration about the relationships people hold about tasks preformed within the labor market. Read more about The Glenner Center here .