Monument Lab

Monument Lab 2017 Research Site Theme

Data represented the places mapped during the summer of 2019 as part of a partnership between Monument Lab and the Pulitzer Foundation.

This data describes 450 proposals for monument collected from Philadelphia residents and visitors during a three week exhibition in the City Hall courtyard in May, 2015. Each proposal was transcribed and analyzed by the Monument Lab team, and is identified with the location of the proposed monument. The dataset also includes the age and home zip…

This data describes 4500 proposals for monument collected from Philadelphia residents and visitors during a citywide exhibition in Autumn, 2017. The proposals were gathered at more than 10 sites throughout the city. Each proposal was transcribed and analyzed by the Monument Lab team, and is identified with the location of the proposed monument. …

The Monument Lab research team gathered 186 hand drawn monument proposals from residents and visitors to Newark in the fall of 2019 that responded to the question, “What is a timely monument for Newark?”