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A young designer rethinking how we memorialize collective trauma

Sara Zewde was the Landscape Architecture Foundation's 2014 Olmsted Scholar. Image via Walter Communications Zewde's designs for a monument on the site of the slave port Valongo. Credit: Sara Zewde Zewde's designs are informed by African cultural practices. Credit: Sara Zewde

Zewde's designs for a monument on the site of the slave port Valongo. Credit: Sara Zewde

Zewde's designs for a monument on the site of the slave port Valongo. Credit: Sara Zewde