Anchoring Dispersion provides a spatial and physical framework for the questions of the competition program, and for an ongoing dialogue about catastrophe, and memory.

The pedestrian fabric of the boardwalk itself is dispersed upwards, to the sea, and anchored by structural masts and a curated exhibit pathway. Each dispersed fragment of boardwalk is identified by a place name, from the Holocaust, distinguished from, but interspersed within, sites of genocide worldwide.

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As these place names are revealed by the lifting boards, we are given to believe that the entire boardwalk hides an ocean of names and dispersals yet to be anchored.

A proposal for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial, With Elijah Huge and Andrew Shanken., 2010