Minor Monuments was presented at MPavilion in April 2020 as part of their Empty Spaces Summit. My contribution to this symposium was a two-part event consisting of a workshop and panel discussion that examined and reimagined monuments and other markers of public memory in the city, examining memorials as forms of relational devices between people.

In the first part of this session, workshop the young participants from Empty Spaces Summit were provided with a ‘creative toolkit’ and guided in making their own scale-model minor monument. The session concluded with a panel discussion I facilitated with Christopher Cottrell, Shanti Sumartojo, and Steven Rhall that explores the possibilities and power of alternative forms of monumentality and commemorative practices in shared urban spaces in relation to their practices. Both parts of the event engaged with audiences as temporally constituted publics through dialogic exchanges.

The panel discussion is available to watch here.