Free to all : Democratizing Monuments of U.S. History as Critical Socio-Political Crossings

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Free to all : Democratizing Monuments of U.S. History as Critical Socio-Political Crossings

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2019

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title: Free to all : Democratizing Monuments of U.S. History as Critical Socio-Political Crossings

creator: Jeffrey N. Dike

subject: Monuments, United States, Political aspects; Public spaces, Designs and plans; Alpha Rho Chi Medal awardee (2019)

description: The public realm of United States is filled with historic monuments to power and social injustice that are accepted uncritically as the established narrative of place. The stagnant monuments and memorials that currently house these narratives of privilege can be engaged to support the climate of socio-political polemics that are contemporarily at the forefront of American discourses. Such polemics, when materialized in space, have the capacity to promote an awareness of issues and narratives that have been systematically omitted from the typical framework of U.S. history. Social movements and political activism in place have already supported a spectrum of this advocacy and general civic engagement. However, a new public infrastructure that participates in this social activity while critically challenging the one-sided narrative of history, and the monuments that promote them, can facilitate the sustained inclusion of narratives from systemically marginalized communities.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2019

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language: eng

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