The redevelopment of the area around Christiansen Park was completed in the summer of 2023. The creation of this area has direct links to Danish colonialism. This is now commemorated by a plaque in the park and a detailed text on this website.
Nelo A. Schmalen's work deals with the urban spatial changes in the Eastern Harbour and explores the extent to which this space is characterised by colonial entanglements. The maps of the harbour area created as part of the work visualize changes to the harbour edge, the terrain and the infrastructure.
The exhibition "Luisa Ascending" deals with the story of 14-year-old Luisa Calderón and artistically explores the question of how everyday violence in colonized areas is connected to our reality in the here and now.
Imani Tafari-Ama is a Jamaican cultural scientist who curated the exhibition 'Rum, Sweat and Tears' in Flensburg in 2017. During her curatorial residency in Flensburg, Imani Tafari-Ama conducted ethnographic fieldwork on Flensburg's colonial connections with Ghana and the Caribbean.
In this article, Inken Carstensen-Egwuom looks at the significance of monuments in urban space, including the installation "Anchoring the Void" in Flensburg and the monument "I Am Queen Mary" in Copenhagen.
The anthology Sønderjylland-Schleswig Kolonial, edited by Marco Petersen in 2018, deals with the Danish-German colonial history in 21 contributions from different perspectives.
Signe Jensen's Master's thesis examines the reception of the exhibition 'Rum, Sweat and Tears' at the Flensburg Maritime Museum. In her work, Jensen identifies cognitive dissonance as a fundamental element of colonial memory culture in Flensburg.