In 2018, Fabric[K] Design principal Marques King sat down with fellow designers and educators, Ken Filler and Austin Raimond, for a recording of “The Table Session” Podcast. The episode explores the layers of a touchy socio-political topic - civic statues - specifically in the context of the America Capital of Washington, D.C. What’s interesting is the commentary on how statues and who they memorialize, influence the creation of quality public space and who subliminally has access to it. Here’s an excerpt from the episode’s abstract…
A self surveyed map of 150 statues and monuments in Washington, D.C.. It is worth noting that most Persons of Color living in the city do so primairly in the ‘deep’ Northwest & Southwest quadrants - where there are viturally no monuments and lack-luster public spaces. Image composed by Ken Filler & Austin Raimond from’The Table Session’ Podcast.