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A RESILIENT MONUMENT [Research + Scuplture]


Awards:

2022 • Winner of the Crossroads Pize for the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021, Seoul, Korea.
2022 • RA Summer Exhibition  

A study into the representative value of monumentality in our rapidly evolving cities and culture. We propose a new monumental practice of collaboration that uses impermanent and organic materials such as wood, thatch and chalk that will require a level of assembly, maintenance and stewardship through successive generations in order to exist. The new monument is not a new normal; it must remain visible and vigilant. It must rot, and it must be cared for as a fragile act of kindness and affirmation of the values it is given by those who make it.

The Resilient Monument moves with us, bending, shifting and adapting with our evolving and cosmopolitan culture. The New Monument does not stay without being asked. The New monument can go when not relevant and reappear when it is needed most. The new monument is good to the Earth. ‘


This project is a collaboration with THISS Works.



Written by Issi Nanabeyin


A RESILIENT MONUMENT [Research + Scuplture]


Awards:

2022 • Winner of the Crossroads Pize for the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021, Seoul, Korea.
2022 • RA Summer Exhibition  

A study into the representative value of monumentality in our rapidly evolving cities and culture. We propose a new monumental practice of collaboration that uses impermanent and organic materials such as wood, thatch and chalk that will require a level of assembly, maintenance and stewardship through successive generations in order to exist. The new monument is not a new normal; it must remain visible and vigilant. It must rot, and it must be cared for as a fragile act of kindness and affirmation of the values it is given by those who make it.

This project is a collaboration with THISS Works.


This project provokes the imagination of what everyday passerbys would think if faced with a material and visual representation of such an underrepresented voice - Black British Queer. Would it change the common attitudes and interests towards Black British Queer?


Written by Issi Nanabeyin