Abstract
This inquiry focuses on the smallest scale of landscape memorial space, the roadside memorial. These small white crosses mark the scenes of sudden, violent death events. The gesture of erecting a marker, adorning a cross with flowers and photographs, then maintaining the site for years is the most basic of all acts of remembrance. The roadside marker “gathers the landscape” (Heidegger, 1971) creating a physical location for grief. Employing a phenomenology of lived-experience (van Manen, 1990) the immediacy of this relationship between memorial form, landscape, and the experience of grief is explored. Findings priorize the role of landscape architecture in the reenchantment of contemporary commemorative culture.
Sometimes the most ephemeral memorials touch us the most profoundly.
(Thompson, 2008b, p.13)
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