Abstract After Ferguson, Standing Rock, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the crisis of
refugees at the US southern border, there have been renewed calls for a racial reckoning in …

In a post-colonial era of reconciliation and truth-telling, many have questioned the symbolic
power of statues. The storm of controversy that developed galvanised an electric energy in …

We have, during the Latin American spring, studied the material traces of state oppression
and social movements in Temuco, Chile, and the transformation of the urban landscape with …

At around the same time as the political controversy was unfolding in the United States over
the removal of Confederate statues, 1 a similar controversy was brewing in Barcelona …

This paper explores the relationship between museums and race by engaging with how
Black communities (and their histories and art) are represented at cultural and historical …

Statues preserve the memory of leaders and heroes and transmit archetypal stories. They
represent the past, often so far past that the values represented by the statue hold no …

Abstract In the United States, conversations about what should be done with Confederate
monuments often invoke museums as a solution to dealing with them after their removal …

The adaptive reuse of monumental buildings presents a complex challenge that balances
historical preservation with modern functionality. This study explores the design issues and …

Based on the idea that public art reflects cultural values and is meant, not as many have
argued as a means of teaching history, but rather as a means of promoting cultural ideals …

Space sharing by groups and organizations is widespread in the United States, from
commercial partnerships, to government and private sector joint use agreements, to the use …