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Those who believe great design is incompatible with political content should
consider the work of Julian Bonder and Krzysztof Wodiczko. Over the past
decade, the two men have formed a design partnership that focuses on social
memory related to unspeakable violations of human rights: genocide, holocaust,
mass political violence. Their most recent project is the Memorial to the
Abolition of Slavery in Nantes, France, a national monument that examines
human bondage from the 18th-century slave trade to modern-day trafficking for
sex or labor. Bonder and Wodiczko spoke with ArchitectureBoston editor Rene
Loth just after the memorials opening in late May.
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Poland?
Krzysztof Wodiczko: Poland is symptomatic because so
many wars went through it. So many catastrophes.
Julian Bonder: To add to that, I come from a family part
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