The Center for Memory-Landscape Studies (CMLS) is a web-based initiative, developed to be an open forum
for memory-landscape studies. Our mission is to advocate for the discovery and diffusion of that which conjures mystery, time,
and history in an attempt to trace memory as cultural practice.
Memory Landscape:
mem•o•ry
land•scape (mem-uh-ree land-skeyp)
1. A grouping of elements arranged in such a way that encourages
one to remember and/or reminisce about a particular episode, time, scene, or sensation.
2. A collected series of ideas, stories, or events considered
significant to a particular culture or group, in which identity is shaped into belief.
3. A surrogate, such as an object-artifact, space, craft,
or activity of tradition and/or habit that aids in the re-experience of times past.
4. The unconscious archeological imprint repeatedly left, lost, and found
by all civilizations that create, believe and imagine that which came before them.