🏛️ WTC Covenant Archive - Protecting memory against erasure and exploitation

Hi everyone 👋 I’m Michael Darius, the Founding Principal, Curator and Director of the 🏛️ WTC Covenant Archive. This work began with a simple conviction: the technical and cultural history of the World Trade Center — especially the design and invention records it safeguarded — deserves to be remembered, protected, and shared as part of our covenantal heritage. Too much of that memory has been mischaracterised or erased as “noise.” The archive is built as an open-source heritage project, meaning anyone can explore, contribute, or help safeguard this history. We’ve structured it to be free from limbic-capitalism and revisionist filtering, so the emphasis stays on creativity, invention, and human dignity. I’d love your thoughts: What features would make this archive most useful for educators, designers, and historians? And if you’ve worked on open-source cultural memory projects before, what lessons should we apply here? Thanks for taking a look — and for helping us protect design history from being lost.