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
Latest Episodes
Comparing the Landscapes: Turkish, Colombian, and U.S. Monuments with Sofia Medina
How do monuments in the United States compare to other places of the world. Last summer, Toolkit associates Madeline Bonner and Noah Price traveled to Bergama, Türkiye to conduct sites visits and participate in the ICOMOS University Forum. Sofi...
Remembering La Matanza, Part 2: A Descendent Story with Elsie Garcia
Last season, we met with the founders of Refusing to Forget to discuss La Matanza and the lack of monuments and memorials that recognize this historic tragedy. Today, we're continuing that conversation by speaking with Elsie Garcia, a descenden...
The Music of Monuments with Sadie Woods: The Chicago Monument Response Project, Part 2
In our last episode, we met with Sonja Henderson, who discussed her work on the We Still Here monument as part of Chicago's Monuments Response Project. Today, we're meeting with Sadie Woods, the co-creator of this monument, so that she...
Monuments as Healing Spaces with Sonja Henderson: The Chicago Monuments Response Project, Part 1
Welcome to the 5th season of The Monumental Project! We're excited to kick off this season with a three-part series on Chicago's Monuments Response Project. This project commissioned a handful of artists to create their own monuments in the sam...
Monuments in Museums, Part 2: Beyond the Display Case / Más Allá de la Vitrina
What happens when Indigenous researchers respond to a Western museum calling a codex a "living ancestor"? In this season finale and our first episode entirely in Spanish, Dr. Omar Aguilar Sánchez, Mixtec archaeologist and founder of Colectivo N...