Welcome!
Given the importance of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative’s Memorial Project and in acknowledgement of the challenges over the past year, we have extended our timeline to ensure adequate time and care is given to collecting the vital community input that will help inform our path forward. We will provide additional updates as they become available.
Do not hesitate to email us at legacyofslavery_memorial@harvard.edu should you have questions in the meantime.
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This memorial project is a key component of the broader Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative which launched after Harvard University released the report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery in April 2022. That report exposed the interconnections between Harvard, slavery, and its legacies, revealing difficult truths about the University’s direct, financial, and intellectual ties to slavery. Harvard is committed to reckoning with these difficult truths. Underscoring this commitment is an endowment of $100 million, which will support this reparative work in perpetuity and transform the recommendations from the report into action.
The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (H&LS) Memorial Project Committee invites artists, architects, designers, multi-disciplinary teams and other creators to express their interest in conceiving a site or sites on Harvard’s Cambridge campus for commemoration and reflection as well as for listening to and living with the University’s legacy of slavery.
We seek expressions of interest from those with investments of thought and practice in memorialization, ritual, community-building, history, and questions about the future. In particular, we are interested in creative visions that activate and make visible complex dynamics, such as: permanence and vitality; honor and rebuke; ecology and the built environment; institutional interest and the common good.
About the Selection Process:
- From the submissions solicited by this RFQ, ten to twenty semifinalists will be asked to provide further materials for review. From that group, four finalist artists/teams will be invited to submit proposals in the RFP stage.
- A $40,000 stipend will be provided to each of the four invited finalist projects to develop initial design concepts.
- Each of the four finalists will make two campus visits to engage with community stakeholders. The first visit will include a site visit and community listening sessions. The second visit will be an opportunity for finalists to share their proposal in a series of public gatherings and conversations.
Questions may be directed to LegacyofSlavery_Memorial@harvard.edu
Return to the Harvard University Vice Provost for Special Projects page.
Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Memorial Request for Qualifications
Welcome!
Given the importance of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative’s Memorial Project and in acknowledgement of the challenges over the past year, we have extended our timeline to ensure adequate time and care is given to collecting the vital community input that will help inform our path forward. We will provide additional updates as they become available.
Do not hesitate to email us at legacyofslavery_memorial@harvard.edu should you have questions in the meantime.
***
This memorial project is a key component of the broader Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative which launched after Harvard University released the report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery in April 2022. That report exposed the interconnections between Harvard, slavery, and its legacies, revealing difficult truths about the University’s direct, financial, and intellectual ties to slavery. Harvard is committed to reckoning with these difficult truths. Underscoring this commitment is an endowment of $100 million, which will support this reparative work in perpetuity and transform the recommendations from the report into action.
The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (H&LS) Memorial Project Committee invites artists, architects, designers, multi-disciplinary teams and other creators to express their interest in conceiving a site or sites on Harvard’s Cambridge campus for commemoration and reflection as well as for listening to and living with the University’s legacy of slavery.
We seek expressions of interest from those with investments of thought and practice in memorialization, ritual, community-building, history, and questions about the future. In particular, we are interested in creative visions that activate and make visible complex dynamics, such as: permanence and vitality; honor and rebuke; ecology and the built environment; institutional interest and the common good.
About the Selection Process:
- From the submissions solicited by this RFQ, ten to twenty semifinalists will be asked to provide further materials for review. From that group, four finalist artists/teams will be invited to submit proposals in the RFP stage.
- A $40,000 stipend will be provided to each of the four invited finalist projects to develop initial design concepts.
- Each of the four finalists will make two campus visits to engage with community stakeholders. The first visit will include a site visit and community listening sessions. The second visit will be an opportunity for finalists to share their proposal in a series of public gatherings and conversations.
Questions may be directed to LegacyofSlavery_Memorial@harvard.edu
Return to the Harvard University Vice Provost for Special Projects page.