Memory-Go-Round 

A monumental carousel that confronts Civil War revisionism by building on a different sort of American nostalgia

Civil War statues have uncertain futures and militant pasts, which must be remembered but no longer celebrated. To train them for peace, the Memory-go-round enlists these soldiers and their steeds to gallop side by side with their former enemies—to be, simply, American. Just as carousels evolved from military exercises to entertainment devices ringing in the new American century to the tune of carnival music, so too will Civil War monuments become monuments to more noble American ideals of this century—monuments to the devalorization of war, monuments toward playfulness and peace.

Collaborators
Eric Moed, Mindy Seu, Andrew Scheinman

Advisor, Harvard GSD
Krzsyztof Wodiczko