A Monument to What?

Monuments are silent documents, historical texts that can be read and analysed. The Victory Monument, a fascist arch situated in Bolzano, Italy, feels the duty of the memory it carries, but it doesn’t know what to remember and what to forget. Using writing as a design tool, Sofia Bresciani creates a fictional character for the arch, showing the friction between the monument's original values and its current existence. The reader creates their own image, using the fictional story as a method to examine other architectural artefacts. Displaying a 'counter-monument' challenges the viewer to question their assumptions, re-thinking our relationships with the built environment.