The Monument Project was founded & directed by Harvard College students, Kiana Rawji '23 and Cecilia Zhou '23 to interrogate public memory, cultivate public imagination, and envision a more just future. Beginning as a 2020 social media initiative with creative challenges for multi-disciplinary artists. In 2022, The Monument Project produced Inclusions, the largest, longest-standing art installation in Harvard Yard, which engaged 200+ students across Harvard University in reflecting on both institutional memory & individual identity. ​

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"The red bricks that make up Harvard’s built environment have witnessed centuries of personal and public history, from individual transformation to societal upheaval. From 2021-2022, The Monument Project invited students to carve their own brick tiles, making visible the experiences and ideas that have defined what Harvard means to them. The markings on the brick faces register the presence of the students who carved them, testaments to formative encounters between institution and individual. They thus enable previously unknown events, names, and experiences to emerge from the brickwork and enter the public eye as a hidden history—a people’s history—of Harvard."​​ (https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/inclusions​​​​​​​)​