Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives Through Public Design - Hardcoverby Kofi Boone (Editor), M. Elen Deming (Editor), Tania Allen (Contribution by) Empty Pedestals uses a design perspective to explore how monuments to the Confederacy speak to regionalism, racist political agendas, and residual collective pain. Many designers and artists working in the public realm have created innovative projects to replace Confederate memorials, contextualize those that still stand, and foster new conversations about history, race,