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Douglas Dover: Architecture
Deviant Device
"This is our hope. With this faith we will be able to hew out of a mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood"
Martin Luther King Jr.
August 28, 1963
Martin Luther King Memorial
International Competition
This proposal advances turning a stone from an instrument of violence into a vehicle for peace. All vistitors contribute stones, to build, over time, an ever growing monument of participatory democracy. The act of visiting the monument actually begins the moment a stone is selected, then retrived and placed in safe keeping, until the final ritual of placement.
A hand. A stone.
The proposal is participatory, social, tactile, and positive.
It is an idea that lives; lives to inspire, teach, and motivate.
With Peter Goldstein and Javier Esponoza
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