For over 1,000 days, LM’s been demonstrating the counter-memorial erected of the personal relics of our fellow-Hungarians in the very city of Budapest. We’ve been staging open-air discussions for everyone who accepts the rules of a moderated debate on the traumas of the past and present. We use the social media to organize the discussions that are taped and made freely available.
Living Memorial
Project owner: Humán Platform Egyesület
Responsible person: Homoki Andrea
2017
2,000 Euro Prize
HU
Civil Society / Social Economy
Diversity
Social welfare, health care
Work
What is it about?
Appreciation of the Jury
Several hundreds of these “moderated discussion circles” have thus taken place since March 2014. They are to sustainably prevent the inauguration of a memorial that denies Hungary’s complicity in crimes committed during the Nazi occupation and they are to keep discussions about them alive. Other localities with dubious monuments are also occupied, temporarily, and debates are held there. Another issue is to talk about history – family history and national history, forever afresh, with ever changing participants. “Living Memorial” has proven pretty tenacious. Self-organised perpetual debates have themselves turned into monuments – of a rather innovative kind – in the public sphere. And they mean to spread…
