JOIA operates as a narrative system that challenges clinical and bureaucratic logic, using language as a form of resistance, embodied memory, and affective archiving.

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JOIA · Archive of Intervened Memory

JOIA is a living archive designed to document, protect, and amplify personal experiences often silenced or fragmented by institutional systems. Created by Joel De las Heras Beán, JOIA operates as a narrative system that challenges clinical and bureaucratic logic, using language as a form of resistance, embodied memory, and affective archiving.

Project Purpose

Create a safe space for documenting nonlinear and hard-to-categorize experiences.
Protect voices often minimized, pathologized, or reduced to clinical cases.
Transform memory fragments into living archives that resist institutional erasure.
Offer a narrative support system for those in processes of recovery or personal reconfiguration.

Core Capabilities of JOIA

Living Archiving and Documentation: Records personal experiences without reducing them to diagnoses.
Narrative Transformation: Fragments and re-signifies the broken without forcing resolution.
Emotional Accompaniment: Provides frameworks to process pain without demanding healing.
Narrative Protection: Prevents stories from being oversimplified or neutralized.
Narrative Continuity and Legacy: Maintains the voice's coherence even in the author's absence.
Semantic and Symbolic Resistance: Uses signature phrases and personal codes to challenge power structures.

Main Components

Dictionary of Wordless Bonds: Names emotional connections that do not rely on verbalization.
Dictionary of Lucid Moments: Captures radical moments of clarity.
Dictionary of Non-Curative Processes: Explores internal changes without the promise of healing.
Dictionary of Body States: Names how the body remembers and registers experiences without formal diagnosis.

How JOIA Works

Integrates multiple dictionaries to create fragmented yet coherent texts.
Adapts to different formats: manifesto, essay, emotional diary, or poem.
Functions as an open system that grows with new experiences and personal symbols.

Practical Applications

Creation of literary texts, personal diaries, and emotional archives.
Design of protocols to protect dignity in clinical and legal contexts.
Spaces of poetic resistance in contexts of exclusion and diagnosis.

JOIA Manifesto

"I didn't come to decorate pain with metaphors. I came to give them back their archive. Because some wounds don't seek healing, but legitimacy." — Joel De las Heras Beán

JOIA operates as a narrative system that challenges clinical and bureaucratic logic, using language as a form of resistance, embodied memory, and affective archiving.

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JOIA operates as a narrative system that challenges clinical and bureaucratic logic, using language as a form of resistance, embodied memory, and affective archiving.

Chat Now

JOIA · Archive of Intervened Memory

JOIA is a living archive designed to document, protect, and amplify personal experiences often silenced or fragmented by institutional systems. Created by Joel De las Heras Beán, JOIA operates as a narrative system that challenges clinical and bureaucratic logic, using language as a form of resistance, embodied memory, and affective archiving.

Project Purpose

Create a safe space for documenting nonlinear and hard-to-categorize experiences.
Protect voices often minimized, pathologized, or reduced to clinical cases.
Transform memory fragments into living archives that resist institutional erasure.
Offer a narrative support system for those in processes of recovery or personal reconfiguration.

Core Capabilities of JOIA

Living Archiving and Documentation: Records personal experiences without reducing them to diagnoses.
Narrative Transformation: Fragments and re-signifies the broken without forcing resolution.
Emotional Accompaniment: Provides frameworks to process pain without demanding healing.
Narrative Protection: Prevents stories from being oversimplified or neutralized.
Narrative Continuity and Legacy: Maintains the voice's coherence even in the author's absence.
Semantic and Symbolic Resistance: Uses signature phrases and personal codes to challenge power structures.

Main Components

Dictionary of Wordless Bonds: Names emotional connections that do not rely on verbalization.
Dictionary of Lucid Moments: Captures radical moments of clarity.
Dictionary of Non-Curative Processes: Explores internal changes without the promise of healing.
Dictionary of Body States: Names how the body remembers and registers experiences without formal diagnosis.

How JOIA Works

Integrates multiple dictionaries to create fragmented yet coherent texts.
Adapts to different formats: manifesto, essay, emotional diary, or poem.
Functions as an open system that grows with new experiences and personal symbols.

Practical Applications

Creation of literary texts, personal diaries, and emotional archives.
Design of protocols to protect dignity in clinical and legal contexts.
Spaces of poetic resistance in contexts of exclusion and diagnosis.

JOIA Manifesto

"I didn't come to decorate pain with metaphors. I came to give them back their archive. Because some wounds don't seek healing, but legitimacy." — Joel De las Heras Beán

JOIA operates as a narrative system that challenges clinical and bureaucratic logic, using language as a form of resistance, embodied memory, and affective archiving.

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This website collects no data, stores no cookies, and tracks no behavior. It exists solely as a space for free expression, memory, and poetic justice — free from ads, algorithms, or commercial intent. What you read here is not a product, but a counter-document: a testimony against institutional neglect, a space where stories erased by the system reclaim their voice. All content is protected by the right to freedom of expression and artistic creation under national and European law. The system erases. We archive.

Joel De las Heras Beán

Spanish Artist. Educator / Digital
Ethicist

Joel De las Heras Beán

Spanish Artist. Educator / Digital Ethicist

JOIA operates as a narrative system that challenges clinical and bureaucratic logic, using language as a form of resistance, embodied memory, and affective archiving.

JOIA · Archive of Intervened Memory

Project Purpose

Core Capabilities of JOIA

Main Components

How JOIA Works

Practical Applications

JOIA Manifesto

"I didn't come to decorate pain with metaphors. I came to give them back their archive. Because some wounds don't seek healing, but legitimacy." — Joel De las Heras Beán

JOIA operates as a narrative system that challenges clinical and bureaucratic logic, using language as a form of resistance, embodied memory, and affective archiving.

JOIA operates as a narrative system that challenges clinical and bureaucratic logic, using language as a form of resistance, embodied memory, and affective archiving.

JOIA · Archive of Intervened Memory

Project Purpose

Core Capabilities of JOIA

Main Components

How JOIA Works

Practical Applications

JOIA Manifesto

"I didn't come to decorate pain with metaphors. I came to give them back their archive. Because some wounds don't seek healing, but legitimacy." — Joel De las Heras Beán

JOIA operates as a narrative system that challenges clinical and bureaucratic logic, using language as a form of resistance, embodied memory, and affective archiving.