Cover for The Twenty-First Slav Epic: A Century After Slavs for Humanity by Scott Jellen

The Twenty-First Slav Epic

A Century After Slavs for Humanity

A speculative design whitepaper proposing Slav Epic 21, an independent six-faced symbolic public-memory monument derived from Alphonse Mucha's Slav Epic one century after its concluding canvas, Slavs for Humanity. The paper treats the original twenty canvases as a symbolic source system and translates their recurring forms language, memory, war, treaty, exile, labor, custody, revival, shadow, and humanity into a new spatial monument organized around humanity, war, memory, sovereignty, diaspora, and common work.

Speculative DesignPublic MemoryMonument DesignCultural SystemsSymbolic Infrastructure
Published: June 14, 2026

The Approach

Scott Jellen is an independent researcher focused on protocol design, rights modeling, and interoperability across digital and public systems. His flagship work, the Universal Sports Graph (USG), defines a neutral infrastructure layer for representing sports rights through published RFCs and a versioned reference registry. Additional briefs and whitepapers explore how incentive clarity and structural design shape scalable institutions.

© 2026 Scott Jellen. Licensing varies by publication.