The Monumental Project
Welcome to The Monumental Project, the official companion podcast of the Monuments Toolkit, a project of World Heritage USA that is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help communities with reinterpreting their monuments landscape. In this podcast, we meet with artists, activists, and academics to discuss how monuments around the world continue to grow and evolve.
The Monumental Project
Methods of Approach: Trends in Monument Removal, Relocation, and Reinterpretation with Kirk Savage
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Monument removal, relocation, and reinterpretation is a process that has several means to its end. For some, this process involves work from activists in the community appealing to political leaders. In other cases, decisions to rectify an oppressive monument come from the top down with local and state governments working with their communities in order to create a consensus around how a monument might best be dealt with. In this episode, we’ll discuss both of these approaches and the general trends in monument removal, relocation, and reinterpretation with Professor Kirk Savage from the University of Pittsburgh.
Credits
Host: Cequyna Moore
Interviewer: Cequyna Moore
Production: Noah Price
Song Credits:
Melancholy Lull by Vital
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