This paper presents how various methods have been combined to serve a qualitative research project in geography gradually shaped by the field itself. The project looked at the individual or collective act of erecting memorials as a mean to give shape and visibility to memories. The research explored the meaning of such acts and how they inform local identities. This paper argues that methods (observation, interviews, archival and documentary research and engagement with local community projects), theory (interactionism) and fieldwork dialectally combine with each of the three elements influencing and constantly reshaping the others, creating a framework to understand the material and discursive dimensions of those memorials.