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  concept for Leipzig's "Monument to Freedom and Unity"
  Leipzig, Germany 2012

  Our proposed design for the Freedom and Unity Monument on Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz is a terminal that forms a site for a continuous survey of revolutionary events around the world. We see the terminal as a transit space for new departures, exchanges and transformation. Commemorating the process that led to a peaceful break with the past - now dubbed the peaceful revolution - the monument's design draws an analogy with the complex events involved in a transformation triggered by a revolutionary shift in power structures.

  

  
  Conceptually, our reflections evolve out of the idea of 'the journey', understood both in the narrower sense of the term, as a change of location, and more broadly, as a metaphor evoking uncertainty, utopia and renewal. The sense of making a fresh start lies at the heart of our design. Against the backdrop of competing political systems, people with an opposition mindset in the GDR and other states across Eastern Europe saw travel and above all scope to travel freely as central motifs of self-determination. In this respect, the design for our monument reflects a distinctive feature of the GDR's peaceful revolution.

  
  

  

  
  

  The terminal is a light-flooded transit hall, open on three sides to Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz. In the interior, a tripartite panel, made up of mechanically operated split-flap display boards, provides up-to-date information about revolutionary movements, upheavals, insurgencies and political transitions around the world at any particular moment. When a new message arrives, the activation mechanism for the individual flaps is triggered, producing a wavelike movement that spreads across all three boards.

  The information displayed takes the form of news updates filtered out of the worldwide web. The filter focuses on contemporary liberation movements, with equal weighting given to regional and international sources. That means the information shown is not determined by mainstream news agencies' priorities.

  The design envisages an adaptive text recognition system focused on revolution, developed as an interdisciplinary cooperation. It will be integrated into the installation and will give rise to a dictionary of revolution that will underpin selection of the text input for the display boards.

  In our design, terms such as revolution, freedom, democracy and human rights are surveyed and questioned, on the one hand by giving equal importance in the monument to news from all over the world, and on the other hand by linking up into a future-oriented ongoing university-based research project, which will combine political science, informatics and linguistics.

  

  Reise (journey): Proto-Germanic *reis-a "arise, rise up"

  
  

  www.denkmaldialog-leipzig.de/concepts (No 105)

  msk7: Mona Babl, Christine Berndt, Kati Gausmann, Ricarda Mieth, Anja Sonnenburg

  

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