the Polynational War Memorial: a proposal for a global war memorial

The Polynational War Memorial

The Polynational War Memorial is an architectonic and conceptual proposal for a global war memorial to commemorate all who died in all wars since 1945, and for an organization that will work on a global level with education, research and diplomacy.

This website presents the concept and the proposal in detail, and information about the latest acheivements. It also includes a database with physical and online memorials, and articles about commemoration culture.

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Notes on the Online Memorial Collection
posted: 2016-07-19| by: Jon Brunberg

When you’re contemplating the features and functions of contemporary war memorials, it’s almost impossible not to take the names of the killed into consideration. When I begun to work on the Polynational War Memorial project in 2004 I decided that I would follow that convention and make the names of all soldiers and civilians killed because of acts of war a fundamental part of the design. And I started to gather all those link in a separate section called "The Online Memorial Collection". This article discuss the importance of names and numbers.

OTHER FEATURES

Contrasting impressions on Omaha Beach
posted: 2013-08-19| by: Jon Brunberg

Wanås Master Plan: documentation video
posted: 2013-08-13| by: Jon Brunberg

Le Mémorial in Caen - Narratives of War and Peace
posted: 2009-11-18| by: Jon Brunberg

Workshop Dossin-Mechelen Report
posted: 2007-03-22| by: Jon Brunberg

The desolate silence of minimalism
posted: 2007-03-22| by: Kieran Long

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EDITORIALS

Learning by numbers
posted: 2016-07-31 | Stockholm

This summer's quite comprehensive refurbishing of this website is drawing to a close. It's been a big relief to be able to devote time to mend broken links, improve the code, squash a number of bugs and redesign parts of the site. But the project also reached a saddening milestone.

NEWS

Update Log 2018
posted: 2018-07-21 | Stockholm

It's time for the annual update of the databases and functions at this site, and as usual the update will proceed in steps. This article is a log of the changes and will be updated continously.

War Database Update Log 2017
posted: 2017-06-04 | Stockholm

The update of the war database has commenced and will continue for the month of June 2017. It will begin with battle-related fatalities from UCDP:s battle-related deaths dataset covering the wars of 2015. As usually updated figures regarding battle-deaths, one-sided violence and non-state conflicts will be published continuously, conflict-by-conflict, which makes the total number of deaths incomplete during the update period.

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ONLINE MEMORIALS

Number of names in the Online War Memorials Collection

578,713

WAR MEMORIAL DATABASE

Find hundreds of war memorials from all over the world in the database.

Learning by numbersposted: 2016-07-31 | Stockholm

Update Log 2018posted: 2018-07-21 | Stockholm

War Database Update Log 2017posted: 2017-06-04 | Stockholm

Learning by numbers
posted: 2016-07-31 | Stockholm

Update Log 2018
posted: 2018-07-21 | Stockholm

War Database Update Log 2017
posted: 2017-06-04 | Stockholm