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LGBTQ+ Memorials: Design and Remembrance in the Landscape

Summer Speaker Series | June 17, 2021

Public memorials help us remember and keep alive past events, stories, and loss. Only recently are LGBTQ+ histories, spaces, and places being honored and remembered in the landscape. During the HIV/AIDS crisis the LGBTQ+ community suffered incredible, significant loss. In cities such as NYC and San Francisco, stories of LGBTQ+ community, those who survived, and those we have lost deserve to be honored and remembered. How do LGBTQ+ people recall and share history? What is the role of place in remembering LGBTQ+ history? This panel discussion is focused on the role and importance of the act of remembering and healing, particularly in situ.

Attendees will be introduced to LGBTQ+ memorials and placemaking and learn the role of telling untold LGBTQ+ histories and memorializing culturally significant sites. Our speakers will discuss how we currently memorialize LGBTQ+ history, and ideas for properly remembering and honoring the LGBTQ+ community into the future. Case studies such as the NYC AIDS Memorial, completed in 2016, honoring those lost during the HIV/AIDS crisis will be discussed, as well as other place-based and living memorials.

Presenters

Jha D Williams | Senior Associate & Co-Director of Public Memory & Memorials Lab, MASS Design Group

Manisha Kaul | Principal & Office Director, Design Workshop

Lily Lim | Partner, Studio ai

Mateo Paiva | Partner, Studio ai