Themes
Approaches to Memorialization
Memorials encourage the public to remember and learn from past events through diverse mediums. Included amongst the many possible ways to memorialize people and events are permanent constructions or temporary installations, events or recurrent days of commemoration, publications or online memorial sites, as well as demonstrations and performances.
Prevention
Never Again: Memorials and Prevention
Over the course of the past fifty years, an increasingly global interest in constructing memorials to genocide and mass atrocity has emerged. This article will explore…
Design Competitions
Design Competitions
Before any memorial to mass atrocity becomes a physical reality, the process that precedes it is often long, difficult, highly political, and mostly invisible to the public. In many cases, the process takes the form of a formal design competition…
Art & Architecture
Art and Architecture
What is the difference between public memorials and public art? The line between them can be hard to find…
Tourism
Tourism and Memory Sites
Tourism is typically associated with pleasure and fun, vacation and escape. What happens, then, when a memorial to mass atrocity becomes a tourist site? In…
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