Map our colonial past in today's Brussels public space
From "Brussels hacks the crisis"
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We all know about the statues of Leopold II, and there's a lot of discussion going on at the moment about what we should do with these statues.
But our colonial past is more than the tenfolds of statues of Leopold II. Many street names still make a reference to our colonial past. But also other statues and monuments of people who were involved in our colonial cruelties, are honoured in the streets without any further explanation...
The question here is not about whether we should remove these statues or not. But a first step is to inform about how these statues and memorials are still present in the public space today.
We could create an interactive map of the colonial legacy in the public space, and inform about all these monuments.