Re-making a place-of-memory: the competition between representativeness and place-making knowledge in Gwangju, South Korea

The study attempts to evaluate how place-making at a historic site via collective memory provokes and embraces issues of memory and representativeness and how the power of place-making knowledge and the power of collective memory compete and negotiate in the city of Gwangju, South Korea. The results indicate that during public consultations and the consensus-making process, victims developed an adaptive preference and agreed to changes proposed without realising what exactly would happen.