Green commemorations are a new approach to remembrance in public spaces centered around environmental sustainability (use of landscaping, local materials and technology in the service of ecology), accompanied by high quality interventions (artistic excellence, quality of architecture and spatial planning, strong scientific underpinning) and following the principle of social inclusion (proposing community-based processes mediated through culture and arts). The idea of green commemorations proposes conscious memory interventions into the natural, social, urban and rural environments that include various stakeholders and a variety of voices into the process. It offers a solution for commemorating sites of trauma either located in natural surroundings or by turning them into green spaces. It allows for creating open, respectful spaces enabling symbolic dialogue between victims, survivors, activists and local communities in the time of the ongoing climate crisis.
