This series of eight essays was written by organizers, researchers, curators, and students involved in Public Iconographies, a collaborative project between Monument Lab and the Pulitzer to mark existing landmarks and monuments, as well as missing aspects of the city’s current landscape.
How Would You Map the Monuments of St. Louis?
Monument Lab
Mapping as a Radical Act
Kristin Fleischmann Brewer
Daddy Daughter Time
Derek Laney
To Count and Give Account
Liz Deichmann
The Ghosts of Jim Crow Aboard the S.S. Admiral
M.K. Stallings
Mapping the Gateway to America’s Middle Passage
Geoff Ward
Monuments Lost and Found in St. Louis
David Cunningham and Alia Nahra
Monumental Recasting
Nicholas Hoffman
