RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Reenchanting Memorial Landscapes JF Landscape Journal FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 35 OP 50 DO 10.3368/lj.32.1.35 VO 32 IS 1 A1 Karen Wilson Baptist YR 2013 UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/32/1/35.abstract AB This research imagines that an inquiry into the transactional relationship between the living, the dead, and the landscape can contribute to the collective “reenchantment of memorial culture” (Ricciardi, 2003, 8). Situated as an existential hermeneutic phenomenological project, the inquiry is animated by an experiential interpretation of roadside memorials and is directed towards the distillation of potential meaning for landscape architecture. In a study of this nature, the researcher is positioned as an advocate for the relevance of poetic, sensorial, and intersubjective explorations of landscape experience. The roadside memorial triggers ruminations on life and death, inciting speculations regarding the reconciliatory potential of landscape following events of tragedy and loss.