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KPE329 Public Education Assignment - Duration: 7:11.
Hi, my name, is kyle i'm an advocate for developing
Physical literacy for the early, years here's my public education assignment hope, you guys enjoyed i was always wondering
Why, i was never interested in sports or i guess physical activity throughout, my, whole lifetime
Hmm, let me, ask, you two questions and i'll come to the conclusion
Do you have your recollection of you playing in a variety of sports or a. Physical activity or just playing outside during your earliest
Specifically during the anuses, year up to six honestly no i had a helicopter's parents when i grow
Up, so they didn't really trust, me or let me get your, physical activity during
My, early years so i primarily played with hot wheels or just games on the internet
Alright so transitioning into, high school physical education class were you proficient at
Any sports or activities during that time, well when we're playing baseball a couple base with him in his face because i couldn't
Judge how
Fast it was coming so i couldn't get my glove on time a lot of the kids
Excelled in the sport and i was just there to be honest i really felt?
Demoralized not any interest in physical tivity as a
whole so i've noticed that you have little to no experience and
Or engagement physical activity during your early years but a lack of development of boomin skills transfer into adulthood so maybe that's, why
You've a resentment towards physical activity
Consequently motor skill for proficiency turn travelers such as jumping running walking and many more results of lifelong engagement and physical activity
Unfortunately you have never fully developed a sense of physical literacy
So, what is physical literacy?
Physical literacy is a competence and confidence and participate in a variety of tivities or environments throughout ones lifetime a
Developing physical literacy will help build a
Foundational movement skills required for everyday tivities such as running through the bus or walking up stairs as
Well as being active for life, so in today's video i'll be emphasizing on three learning objectives
Why, physical tv is crucial in the early years what kinds of tips are important for this age group and suggestions of participate and these
Physical actives at home or in the community
So, why
Is physical activity imperative in their early years as children's evolved into adults movement plays a pivotal role in their acts of life
exposure to a variety of movements are activities dinner earlier transfer into adulthood as they progressively improve the quality of movement
The beginning stage is for basic movement, also referred as a fundamental movement skill locomotor skills body control skills object manipulation skills
So, by developing these skills in the early years individuals will gain a passion for physical activity
And will continually engage in their later life, therefore between the ages of 0 to 5
Is the most optimal time for children to be exposed to these skills so based on a fundamental movement skills acquisition
Movement chart demonstrates what age is appropriate for which movement
The fundamental movement skills are building blocks for development
And will lead the individual to make lifelong healthy decisions
Possess the knowledge to make healthy choices for example choose an alternative and more healthy option at mcdonald's and
Also have a basic understanding of exercise and sleep to improve the quality of life
So without the basic
Skills this, was theater children in a different avenue we're sedentary behaviors is their only option to the canadian sedentary behavior guard
lines there should
Be no screen time for children between zero and two
Explosion to the prevalence of technology in the state towards the earliest has jet dimensional effects to cognitive development in addition
The increased sedentary behavior can't do stronach health diseases such as
High, blood, pressure diabetes obesity and many more you said eteri behavior can, also lead to sleep deprivation
Every hour, a kid spends being sedentary delayed at bedtime
By, three minutes and the average is 5 to 70 year old spends about eight and a half hours being sedentary
Each, day the consequences of sleep deprivation can, be very dire however all these negative effects can be combatted
By, exposing children to a wide variety of his motives to help, develop the fundamental movement skills
So what kinds of physical activity should the early years engage in so activities that promote fundamental movement skills
Which is comprised of bio locomotion skills such as jumping
Walking and climbing as, well as body control skills such as balance and coordination and finally object manipulation
Skills such, as throwing, and capture so one important aspect, to keep it my parents or caregivers
Is that when teaching a skill is not necessarily important to master that skill
For example when you teach me how
To, throw it's directed more so to throw the balls in a variety of ways this allows them to feel confident
inclusive
non-competitive
Developmentally appropriate meaning you wouldn't have, your kids squatting 300 pounds you can
Refer back to the fundamental movement chart and gesture tivities based on that
In addition in my experience adding. A theme to the activity will, also get the kids to be more receptive and engage as
They can, make mental visualizations and connections to the activity
Which coincides with the developmental milestones that children's between, ages three to five they have a very active imagination
And most importantly in a corporate national movement a study conducted. By khempal and colleagues depicted the benefits of natural
Outdoor, play in essence let your children
Be free and explore as long as in safe parameters as the benefits are
Significant to the child's development so what kind of ease can you do in the community or at home in the community you can enroll
Your children at your local recreation, centers, some great tvs include swimming, which is considered a
Life skill dance which promotes expressive movement and
Gymnastics, also in the community you can find stimulating outdoor space
Which includes a playground and the natural environment
Did you know the number one factor for kids to play in the community is a number of trees and a natural environment to explore
Therefore take your children to the playground i'll let them explore and take risks
Activities such as grounders that are risky translate to better development of motor skills
So for home activities you can build a makeshift off too of course to help develop fundamental movement skills these tasks
May be challenging but it does promote self-confidence intrinsic motivation to complete the task
During the summer time you can, use chalk and draw. Hopscotch in the driveway, which helps develop
Job, bank and balancing skills or you can draw. A square and let, them play foursquare to develop object manipulation skills
*snow angels
Also incorporate active transportation, where it's possible where you walk or bike with. Your kids instead of driving to school just
To, reiterate don't be a helicopter parent as you are negatively impacting your child's overall development
And to wrap up this video
Integrating physical activity into young show's lives is essential for creating a foundation of movement and activity that they will carry with them throughout
The rest of their lives
So physical literacy is comprised of many opportunities
Fundamental movement skills
Motivation competence and confidence to participate in a variety activities have the knowledge to make healthy decisions and be active for life
So more information visit these websites listed below. Thank you for watching i hope this video was very informative
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The Making of a Con(Temporary) Black Public - Duration: 42:27.
THEASTER GATES: I found these wooden boards.
There were 5,000 of them.
And in a way I treated the wooden boards the way
I did ceramics, that I would just kind of iterate over
and over their use, stacking them as architectural forms,
thinking about them as conceptual forms.
This became a performance space where
I invited other amazing artists, including this young man named
Dawoud Bey, a photographer mainly but also
a percussionist.
And I basically temporarily rented
a space in the middle of the fashionable area
for grunge artists.
Can you guys hear me?
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
THEASTER GATES: Oh, you want some lights down.
All right, turn the lights down.
So I created this space because, at the time,
there were no museums interested in what I was doing.
But I really wanted to share this work.
So I saved up some money, rented a space temporarily,
and made my own exhibition--
seemed reasonable.
But the exhibition was part my work, and then part a platform
whereby other people's works might be shown.
Performance might happen.
Dinners might happen.
And it was like the beginning of a first pivot in the way
that I imagined my ability to create my own space,
convene a group of people who were
interested in similar things or maybe even dissimilar things,
and then maybe upend the art world so that I didn't imagine
that the only experiences that I could have
were museum experiences, but they could
be my own autonomous creation.
It is reasonable to say that the context of my making
also included the fact that the world around me
was in considerable disrepair, that there
were beautiful buildings unkept, unoccupied, not fully
owned by anyone.
And my studio was becoming a kind
of pristine place for beauty.
And I was already asking that question of,
how can the things that I do inside spill outside and maybe
have impact somewhere else?
And so for the price of something
cheaper than an exhibition at a museum,
I was able to acquire a building,
redecorate that building, gut the building.
And it was this building that, in some ways,
started to make space for me in the contemporary art world.
There's a gentleman by the name of Francesco Bonami,
an Italian curator-at-large who was doing projects
at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
He came over and I showed him this building.
[PHONE RINGING]
There's so much going on.
I showed him this building and there was nothing in it.
It was just gutted.
And he liked the building.
And he said, "Well, what are you doing?"
And I had one image of a Song dynasty
vase projected on a glass lantern slide projector.
And I said, "I can't afford to do anymore
so I've just been sweeping the building
and projecting these images."
And he invited me to be in the Whitney Biennial.
One building became three or four.
And some of these things I've talked about before.
We started to use the buildings as the only real amenity
in this neighborhood.
I was really just trying to say, OK,
I don't want to have to go to another neighborhood
in order to see a good film.
Maybe I could get a film projector,
rent a 16 millimeter film, and screen the film for myself
first.
And if I screen it for myself, I could invite some people, maybe
even my neighbors, maybe even my neighbors who
are not necessarily interested in art
but might like a good film, or might
like a diversion from their day on a Friday night.
These are my neighbors.
When I say my neighbors, these are not necessarily
my friends or my homies.
They are just people who live next to me
for whom my day-to-day reality needs them.
I need them to look out for when the parking inspector comes
and he's about to give me a ticket,
I want them to call me and say, "Hey Theaster,
the parking inspector's coming.
Please move your car."
When I didn't have an oven, I need an oven.
I want to use the oven.
And so we started hanging out, partying, barbecuing.
It was great.
We created this space called Black Cinema House where
we converted the first floor of my house into a cinema space.
We tried to do it really nicely.
But nonetheless, it couldn't fit more than 40 people.
It was just the first floor of an apartment.
I lived upstairs.
This became really tenuous, because Black Cinema House
started to take on a life of its own.
So people had access to my house.
They would come over early in the morning.
"Mr. Gates, we want to prescreen the film
that we're showing tonight."
So I moved Black Cinema House.
As this work started to grow-- let's say we're at like 2011,
2012--
the University of Chicago finds out
that I'm doing this work on Dorchester.
And then the university asks, hey,
can you do the work that you're doing in the hood over here
for us?
This building-- that's so cool.
This building here, the university owned it.
And they owned it for maybe seven or eight years.
It's in the middle of an all-black neighborhood.
If you go east across Washington Park,
this is where the University of Chicago is.
And on the west side of the park is a largely black
neighborhood.
The university thought that in the future
it might grow and expand and it would need these buildings
eventually, but they wouldn't need them for about 50 years,
they imagined.
Well, what do you do with these buildings in the 50 years
before the university needs them?
And so the local politicians really
wanted something that would benefit the community.
The university, of course, would want something
that benefits the university.
What's the compromise-- the arts--
the arts-- the arts--
culture-- the arts--
the arts.
You know, it's nonjudgmental.
It's nonpolitical.
If there's a problem, you can blame the artist
and not have to blame the institution.
Even when you lose or you fail, you win.
This is great.
And so I said to the university, why not the arts?
And they said, OK.
Now maybe a first or second kind of theoretical proposition,
we know sometimes that governments value the arts even
when they don't value art or artists, that developers
and construction moguls and money
people, corporate headquarters, value the arts,
even when there is no place for an artist to live
or for an arts organization to have
affordable space for their small entity,
but they want the activity, they don't want necessarily
the people.
In a way, artists are like unwanted people,
useful until they want to be at the party on the same terms
as everyone else.
I've experienced this.
Anyway, we built this space for the arts.
And we were able to say to people
who live in Washington Park that the residencies
and the exhibitions that happen here, the food that will
be served, it's all for you.
And this was a real breakthrough for the university
that a thing could be for a community that is not
the university community first, and that as a byproduct
of building it, the university will also benefit,
but that there could be a consideration of others
in advance of the university, and that that
might be something that actually works well
within the rubric of education.
But always with these--
the crime lab, the social lab, the urban lab--
all of these things are imagining our communities first
as places for testing, for occupation and research,
but never for friendship or for love or for partnership
or co-advancement.
It's always like you become a number in a survey.
And I think that Washington Park and black people who
live around the university feel this all the time,
whether it's talked about or not,
and that maybe we find really romantic words
to hide this fact.
Anyway, I found myself deeply now advancing in my art career,
and then advancing as this kind of trickster,
moving between arts administration
and the creation of the arts--
political-- and then being an artist,
maybe even attempting to be subversive,
so much so I don't know when I'm being one or the other--
that I was fully an administrator.
I was fully a politician and fully an artist,
and I was not always sure of myself.
The development bug hit me, and I
started thinking that maybe there
was a way that this brain--
it's a fairly small brain--
that the brain that I had for space
could be useful not only for my own personal pleasure.
I was making mini [TURKISH] and bath houses, film screening
spaces.
But maybe there was something that I
could do that was a little bit more ambitious.
And this was a 36 unit low-income housing project
that had been abandoned because lots of violence
happened there, because people from varying
different locations were brought to this place.
They didn't like each other.
They were from different territories.
And they would shoot each other, kill each other,
sometimes killing others in the crossfire.
It was shut down.
And then I asked the Chicago Housing Authority
if we might turn this into a kind of mixed-income artist
community.
So we did that.
I did it with the help of a local developer.
And the space that we carved out, this art space,
I decided that I would, pardon the word, curate--
please, I'm not a curator--
but that I would be really intentional
about the programmers and the programs that happen.
So that developers all the time in these low-income projects
have a community space, but there's usually
no one to really sophisticatedly run it.
So then it has some cupboards, maybe a stove, a refrigerator,
and a mop, and some folding chairs.
And that's the community space.
But what happens if you get the baddest black yogi in Chicago,
right, and say look, we will pay you and subsidize your fee,
but you bring the people and you teach them
how to be in their bodies.
And so very quickly we had this 75 person loving, you know,
black in their bodies.
These sisters were in here, and everyone's doing Downward Dog
and they're doing their Standing Trees
and their Crouching Tigers.
And then we started getting brothers
to come because they were interested in the activity
happening there.
I know that this is not art, what I'm talking
about right now, perhaps.
I keep wanting to point instead of scroll.
But there are other buildings that I
couldn't salvage, that even in my god complex,
I couldn't save them all.
And so as St. Lawrence was being torn down,
I was trying to figure out, what else could be done?
We started talking to the demolition company
and asked if we would be able to, as they were demolishing
the building, could we create a work program
on top of that where we would clean up the bricks,
palletize the bricks, and then make them
available to do other things, like maybe
new sacred spaces around?
Or these men and women could resell the bricks
and make some cash.
We ended up getting the brick and the limestone, the marble,
the slate, the steel, the wood.
That inspired me to then start making brick art.
I became really curious about, what could I do?
And I started making handmade bricks and kind
of having a conceptual response to this real thing that
was happening out in the world, that I needed to respond
to myself because there was no way that I could bring St.
Lawrence Church into the gallery,
but I wanted to talk about these things.
And there I was starting to make a kind of echo
between the things that were happening
outside the studio and things that I wanted people
to know in the art world--
in the world, , maybe in the world of art.
And so the more that I made these handmade bricks
under the auspices of a thing that I called
Soul Manufacturing Corporation, I
was prophesying the possibility of a company
on the South Side run and owned by black people
that would have the ability to manufacture
a thing from nothing to something,
and that the world would want this.
These bricks were heavy and imperfect, but cute,
conceptual, and that these palletized breaks would
help me pay for the kiln, which would allow me to make more
bricks, travel to real brick manufacturing companies,
get to know people that would then be invested
in the idea of potentially being a brick partner with me
and my crew.
Scroll.
We had a lot of wood.
There's a lot of teenagers.
And it just got to the point where
it was more fun to just look at a problem,
think about the problem in relationship
to the people who were adjacent, and then try to make something
maybe more poetic happen.
And so at this point it was like, it could be anything.
It could be anything.
It could be the creation of wood sculpture for other people
and we become fabricators.
It could be projects for me.
Or in some case we would go out and say,
of the storefronts that are on Garfield Boulevard that
don't have signage or maybe need menus in their restaurants,
could we just have some service projects
where we use the wood that we have to do this?
So we had our high schoolers would then
go fishing for new ideas, new problems to solve.
It was really cool.
I don't actually know what the next slide is,
so I'm just kind of having fun riffing this.
The city called me one day and said
that they had a problem of these 90,000 trees
that had to be torn down.
And I've been talking about this quite a bit.
But I think that this project is one
that I'm really proud of because the city wanted me only
to take two or three trees and make some art out of them.
But they still had 90,000 trees.
And so I told them what you need is you don't need an artwork.
You need a mill.
And so with these same brothers and sisters,
we decided to find some millers, introduce them
to these young people, bring the temporary mill outside.
The city dumped 3,000 trees and they
were like, all right, well if you think
you can do this, go for it.
And they dumped some trees.
And over the next year and a half,
we ended up creating a kind of milling situation
where now we can mill about a hundred trees a day.
We probably do 25 because, why hurt yourself?
We have some fun and take a long lunch.
But it is really exciting now to see some of these old--
I hate to racialize everything, but I'm sorry,
in my country things are racialized,
so please forgive me.
It's amazing to see these old, white, unioned carpenters who
are maybe retired working with these young, black students who
have maybe never thought about the idea of design
or urban planning or architecture or finish
carpentry as career paths or something like this,
and to have them in kind of deep dialogue.
And what we're finding is that you
can't be what you can't see.
You can't be what you can't see.
So it's like, a brother's out there milling
or a sister's out there milling and she's like,
"I really like this.
I never knew how a two by four became a two by four, how a 3
by 16--
I've never seen a piece of wood so wide."
Because some of the trees, you can see some of these trees.
Some of them are huge.
And so it's like you run it through this saw,
or you run the saw through the tree, it's like butter.
It's like bzzz.
And then you cut these slices and it's
like the board is this wide.
And so then we get to talk about raw materials and economy.
We talk about how the sawdust becomes a byproduct.
The bark becomes a byproduct.
All these things then we're making our own pallets
and our own A-frames, and we're making
a pellet that become fuel for our wood-fired kiln.
And all of a sudden I'm back at ceramics, which is great.
We're growing things.
And people eat it, along with Jays barbecue
chips and Powerade.
So I had a different PowerPoint, but Aditi
is very convincing in terms of the things
that I should talk about.
So I'm going to talk about what she wants me to talk about.
OK, I'm going to go forward.
This building I now call it the Stony Island Arts Bank.
It was called the Stony Island State Savings Bank, then
the Southmoore, than Guarantee Bank.
And in that bank, the partitions between bathroom stalls were
made of this kind of marble-like material--
almost marble.
And the city of Chicago was going
to get rid of-- they were going to tear the building down.
I asked if they would give me the building.
They said that they would give it to me on the condition
that I would do what became about $550,000 worth of repairs
before they would give me the deed.
It was said that the building was given to me for $1.00,
but nothing is ever given to a person for $1.00.
If anyone tries to sell you something that seems like it
has more value than $1.00 for $1.00, don't take it.
But I thought that this building was
the last of a particular kind of building in my neighborhood.
This is 68 and Stony Island, 12 blocks further south
of the University of Chicago.
It may as well be a plane ride away
or a universe away, that people are often
told when they join the faculty or staff or even
young students, don't go past 63rd Street.
And I am five blocks past 63rd, which
means I am in the lower levels of hell.
Nonetheless, the building was a beautiful one and kind
of worth saving, I thought.
It was not in such good shape, but it was at this point
when the windows were put back in the building
and they were no longer boarded up,
and we had done a first cleaning of the building,
people started to drive past and slow down.
They would drive past and slow down.
And then over time, people would slow down and if I was outside
they'd say, "Hey, my dad used to bank at that building."
These would be like old Jewish men and women.
"My dad used to bank."
And then I'd see a brother.
A black man would go by with a funny hat on.
He would say, "Hey, when I was young,
the honorable Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
used to own this bank, and they used to bank here."
And all of a sudden just from cleaning up the building,
there were all these stories waiting to happen.
Like in a way the preservation was
a trigger for this other spiritual activity,
and that if someone would just like,
[CLAP],, just make the first strike,
then all these other things might
happen, that it was a tiny demonstration of care.
It felt like the building was a painting.
Cars which slow down the way you'd
want to slow down at a painting, and just kind of observe,
just kind of be present with it, and maybe
be greater because you're standing
in front of the painting.
I like this.
But this is what the building looked like on the inside.
And so I would bring people in.
And I'd be like, "Oh my God, I'm so excited.
This is going to be the library.
And down here we're going to have our music thing.
And over here, the vault, we're going to like, I don't know,
have raves.
And it's going to be awesome."
And it was hard for people to see.
And I realized that maybe this is where maybe I
am really an artist or just really crazy,
where I had to both speak it into existence
and maybe see it.
But because it was difficult for other people to see,
it was hard for them to want to also offer their support.
It was just a difficult time trying to convince people
that the thing that I saw in my mind might be realized,
and that in a way this was not a blank canvas,
it was like negative blank.
It was blank negative.
That first to get it--
you all know what I'm saying.
But at the same time that I had acquired the building
for $1.00, I was starting to collect these other things.
Now I should say all these things were made possible
because I have an appetite for junk
and other people's problems.
I have an appetite for other people's problems.
I love material culture.
But I mean, I could find more tidy culture.
But I think today we went to--
how do you pronounce it, "Se-squee-ti"?
AUDIENCE: "San-skreet-ee".
THEASTER GATES: "Sans-skreet-ee", yeah?
I mean this is bad.
Like I have bad English already, so forgive me.
We went to Sanskriti, and there's
a space called the Museum for Everyday Things--
Objects.
AUDIENCE: Art.
THEASTER GATES: Museum of Everyday Art, nice.
And I think that I was maybe in dialogue with this,
but I didn't have a name for it, that I
wanted to convince other people that the everyday things
of their lives had value.
And the way that I was going to do this was I
was going to take those everyday things
and put them in such a nice case--
I would just clean them up and just
put them there and then change the light,
just shine the light.
And that thing that we didn't pay a whole lot of attention
to, like the shoes we used to wear
or the glasses our grandfathers and grandmothers
had or the skillets and the pots and pans
and the knives, or the little colonial
objects that we made to make fun of the white people
when they came, that all of those things would have value,
and that I would collect them wherever they were.
And then the bank would be the repository
where people might deposit their cultural goods, let's say.
While this was happening, things started to be donated to me.
So this beautiful woman, Linda Johnson Rice,
told me that she had some books.
She knew that I liked books and she had some books.
And she gave me a lot of books.
And we ended up creating this library, which
is essentially 26,000 books about the black experience,
1850 to 2000, thereabouts.
And it's become kind of the heart of the building.
In a way, nothing else needs to happen in the building
except this library exists.
And it becomes a kind of declaration.
It's its own manifesto that black things matter.
And these are books.
They're just everyday books, some Zora Neale Hurston,
some Toni Morrison, some James Baldwin,
I mean, just everyday things, things
that other people have in their library,
even if they don't read a lot.
And that maybe if they see that same book in my library
and they look at the dignity and the aesthetics of this library,
that they would go home and imagine
their books differently, that they might even
read as a result of the library being sexy.
Or maybe they just want to be in the library more
because the library's sexy.
And they might even invite someone else
to be in the library.
They might even change their behavior,
because the library feels good and makes them
want to be a better person.
This is maybe now when art meets something
like the divine for me, that one would be changed
as a result of the encounter.
So we started having shows, important artists
doing great things.
And I was trying to figure out--
I spent some time studying in other places,
and I was really deeply trying to consider, what could I
contribute to the conversation of preservation,
or maybe conservation?
And in the US, if there is an old house--
and very old, like 80 years would be old in the US--
the house is old, the roof caves in.
And then the house no longer looks old.
It becomes a new house.
They change all the clapboards.
They change the door.
And they say this is the same period door,
but the thing is new.
But there's no trace.
There's no trace of anything old.
And they've painted it lily white.
So it's a new lily white building,
which sounds like America to me, kind of a new lily
white building.
America's a new lily white building.
And so I was really committed to allowing some of the decay--
it's OK.
It's OK.
Just roll with me--
allowing some of the decay of this building to be evident.
But when people would come in, they would say--
they could say two things, either,
"That looks like a stain.
Why didn't you paint it?"
Or, "That's really beautiful."
And they were trying to imagine, what's
the difference between beauty and the stain?
And is it possible that sometimes the stain
is adding value?
Maybe some might say you become even more aware of the beauty
through the stain because of the whiteness of the plaster
adjacent to it, that it's actually
the finish of the plaster next to the stain
that makes this thing even more beautiful.
If it's just the stain, just deterioration, uninteresting.
Just the lily white house, uninteresting.
But when those things come together, maybe something new
happens, I'm proposing.
Not theoretical-- wherever the building failed,
we needed new drywall.
It became white.
Wherever the building was surviving,
we stabilized the things that were there.
So we found ourselves with a home.
And then we found ourselves with things--
well, a white home for black things.
And I'll stop right there.
I'll just stop.
I'll stop.
I'll stop ladies.
I'm sorry.
But I'm going to just talk about some of these black things.
So Linda, in addition to giving me her books,
there were all these other periodicals that were there.
Johnson Publishing produced Ebony magazine, Jet magazine,
a magazine called Hue, Negro Digest,
which was the black version of Reader's Digest.
Ebony was the black version of Life magazine.
And one might ask, why do you need
a black version of a thing?
Why would one make a new--
if there's already the thing, why
do you need a black version of the thing?
And this is where John Johnson was genius.
The truth is, Life magazine was not the American experience.
It was only the white American experience.
It's a truth.
And say if I were an aspiring middle-class dentist in 1943,
the only aspiration I would have through Life magazine
would be a white aspiration.
In fact, I never saw myself, so I may not
know that there are other dentists who
look like me in other parts of the country.
John Johnson was attempting to unify these parts,
to let people know that they weren't alone
in their loneliness, in their stewardship,
in their academic pursuit, in their intelligence,
in their mobility.
And so Johnson mimicked--
he appropriated the Life magazine structure
for black people.
And it was like, why stop at black America?
Let's do it in Zimbabwe.
Let's do it in South Africa.
Let's do it for the Caribbean.
And he was trying to have more and more
specific stories that would help people
understand that they were part of a diasporic aspiration.
Ebony magazine was about aspiration.
Anyway, I had these things and I'm not a librarian so
I decided to try to, I don't know, make some art out of it--
mix them up, change the colors, put them in things,
hang them, do things.
And it didn't work so well, that those things really
wanted to be a library.
And they really needed an archival care.
And so we got more and more serious about it.
And I found myself kind of falling in love
with houses for books.
And I just kind of keep making them over and over.
The books were going well.
And then we started getting records.
This is a collection of albums from the Frankie Knuckles
Foundation.
Frankie Knuckles was an important house music
DJ, died 2 and 1/2 years ago and needed to create an estate.
His friends who were caring for his things
needed to create an estate and didn't know how.
And so we worked out a way of making
an estate for his things.
And the albums are licensed to us for the next 10 years.
So when you come to the Arts Bank,
we try to play house music all the time.
Do you guys know what house music is?
So who doesn't know what house music is, no offense?
So house music is like club music.
And in Chicago, it was music that
was really the origins of which were in the '70s disco
movement.
So I have some favorite songs--
(SINGING) burn baby burn, disco inferno, burn baby--
car wash, working at the car wash yeah--
real funky, real funky.
And that music, disco music, would then
be combined with what became kind of more like just beat,
just beats, just rhythm, jungle house, Detroit techno,
and so and so.
So we party and we read, like you guys.
That's what I hear about the [? Delhi ?] Center, that you
party as hard as you read.
Here's a good example, just this here.
When you're working out the costs of the renovation
with your construction crew and they're telling you, "Theaster,
we can gut the whole building for $75,000.
But if you want to do this selective remediation,
it's going to be $150,000 to $250,000.
It's just harder to do.
It would be easier to just go in and take it all away."
But these moments became opportunities
where I could teach a team of people how to plaster,
and that we could commit to a kind of plastering
that would have been the plastering that
was done in 1923.
A little more lime, maybe there's
a little bit of hay in the plaster,
making a stronger, more fibrous body
that would help it last through rains and the bad conditions
that this building went under.
And so I thought, no, let's do the selective remediation.
And then instead of your plastic contract,
my guys will do the plaster.
And I was creating a problem within a solution, which
means more time and more money.
But the problem was one that was manageable,
and we could say, hey, we need a team of men and women
who are interested in plastering.
We have three months to train you before we get to the point
where we need to plaster.
Then we have eight weeks to get the plastering done.
If it goes beyond eight weeks, then I
got to let my general contractors do it
because we'll be behind time--
but looking for problems that people in my neighborhood
could solve.
The bank has never been broken into.
There's never been any defacement.
Bad things happen around us all the time.
But the people who protect the building now
are the people who laid the plaster
during the bank's development.
And even if they, for reasons of the building's architecture--
which feels colonial in a particular way,
or at least exclusive.
Even if they don't immediately feel like the bank is theirs,
there's something about having worked
in the bank that makes them feel like they're part of it.
Even though they go in and the art looks weird,
it's like, well I did the walls on the third floor.
I buffed the floors.
And not to be pejorative, but to say
that in a place where class dynamics are complicated,
even if everybody in the neighborhood is black,
those become the moments that call us back
to a place that says, you built it, therefore you're welcome.
Or you're building it and you're welcome.
Some brothers-- it's good to have
some brothers in the pictures.
They were building the library.
Says Gaylord and brother Mike, some glass
slides from the University of Chicago that eventually became
one of the cherished things.
Gaylord's very handsome.
He's an urban planner.
He'll be on my next trip.
That's Devin.
He's smart.
But all of this construction is really
just trying to get to the care of these objects.
There's a kind of co-working between the objects
and these little things.
Beautiful images of people in a space where
people can get down, do their little dance classes,
build things.
Aditi mentioned that the Obama Center's near me
and I'm working with them.
These things that are in pink are
buildings that we worked on over the last six, seven years.
And it represents about a mile, mile and a half.
And we're really proud.
Where it says University of Chicago here,
Stony Island Arts Bank, University
of Chicago, the library is going to go somewhere in between.
The Obama Center, that's what they call it.
They don't call it a library.
That's important, because the same people
who told me that the bank wasn't worth investing in--
they called it an albatross.
I didn't even know what albatross met.
They were like, "This is an albatross."
And I was like, "Whatever, you're an albatross.
Yo momma an albatross."
They now call me a real estate mogul.
They're like, "Oh my God, Theaster, your timing
was brilliant.
How did you know that the wind would sway the Obama
Center toward Jackson Park?"
And I mean, this is where it gets spiritual again,
that when you commit to the thing
that you're supposed to do, sometimes it works out.
That's nice.
Now I'm just bragging.
This is just like, I'm just bragging.
This is my last slide.
All of these buildings were abandoned.
All of them were valued less than they
should be because they were in the wrong neighborhood
at the wrong time.
And with some concerted effort, people now
want to live there again.
Thanks very much.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle held hands as they greeted well-wishers in Nottingham on their first public engagement since getting engaged.
The flame-haired royal and the Suits actress looked loved up as they greeted the crowds of people who had gathered outside the citys Contemporary Arts Centre.
The pair - who are in Nottingham for a World Aids Day fair and to visit a youth project - walked hand in hand as they made their way to meet local dignitaries.
They then went to separate sides of the crowds and chatted with those who had secured a place at the front of the five row deep throng.
There were gifts galore for Meghan and Harry, who were handed presents including chocolate, flowers and cards.
One person even handed Meghan some Haribo, Harrys favorite sweets, to give to the prince.
Ann McGuire, who brought her two-year-old son Leo with her, said: She grabbed my hand and said Im so glad you braved it to stand in the cold.
Meghans such a natural. Whilst Katie Shaw, 22, added: They were very down to earth even though theyre royal.
Its all about Suits.
We really like Suits and she told us there are going to be two more series. And Harry even joked with one member of the crowd when they asked what it was like to be ginger and engaged to a famous actress.
Harry joked back that it was unbelievable [and] great, isnt it.
Meghan - a professional at red carpets - was so happy to be with her husband-to-be.
She told one member of the crowd: Im so happy.
Its just such a thrill to be here. The pair were constantly asked for selfies - something which Meghan had to politely decline, insisting they werent allowed to get pictures.
Getting out of the cold, the pair then headed to the Terrence Higgins Trust World Aids Day charity fair and also visited Nottingham Academy, where they met with headteachers taking part in the Full Effect program, which aims to stop young people getting involved in violence and crime.
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Thank you very much.
I'm delighted to be here filling in actually for Ted Koppel who is ill and is a friend
and I hope he's getting better.
It's a real pleasure in so many ways to be with these young people tonight because as
I think you'll discover - I want to draw out their stories individually and talk with them
about their commitments to public service - they're an impressive group of people.
They've already in fact committed themselves to a kind of path that really is leading toward
a life of public service in some way either through whatever career they choose or a commitment
to public service itself.
I made personally a commitment to public service a long time ago and I've never regretted it.
Steve Westley said to me I'm going to make you rich like your predecessor Kevin Pursglove
who became a spokesman for EBay but -- I'll hold you to that Steve.
I'm still in my vows of poverty as an educator.
But it's been an ennobling life in many ways.
I can say that without sounding like I'm stretching the idea of my humility because to give yourself up to
public service as an educator or doing something in the public sphere is wonderfully rewarding.
I saw these pictures of these young people in the Cardinal program holding signs that
said, non-selfie.
Which seemed to me to speak volumes of the importance of the work that they're doing
and the commitment they have to doing work that can really best be characterized as not
selfless necessarily in the spiritual sense or in the more celestial sense but nevertheless
certainly abrogating what may be the self or the material needs.
So we'll talk with them individually and as I said I'm certainly delighted to be their
interlocutor here.
They're all doing good work and I'm going to go up and join them now.
Please again give them a warm welcome if you will.
There may have been an easier way to get up here and join all of you but you know this
is absent-minded professor behavior.
Sam, let me begin with you.
We'll just go with each of you individually and then I'll talk with all of you about certain ideas.
I know as we heard about your biography you've been doing some work especially in prison
reform and prison rehabilitation and have committed yourself to that and had a lot of
good mentoring.
And I assume because you're president of the Black pre-law student group you want to move
toward the law.
How does the prison work you've done through the Cardinal program fit into that?
Thank you.
Thank you again for being here everyone and we really do appreciate the support and really
helping us do the things that we're trying to do best.
I started my summer at the ACLU National Prison Project.
It's a very small project in the ACLU's D.C. office working broadly to reform prison conditions
around the country using class action litigation as the main tool for doing so.
A lot of the work I did as you referenced was targeted at specific cases including a
law suit that the ACLU has right now against the Arizona Department of Corrections representing
33,000 prisoners who don't have proper healthcare access, who are locked in solitary confinement,
people who are severely mentally ill and do not have access to the proper care that they
are constitutionally required to have.
For me coming to the summer recognizing that even though the U.S. has 5% of the world's
population, the fact that we hold 25% of its prisoners does not sit well with me.
I did a lot of research, I did a lot of learning throughout my summer and one of the things
I learned about prison reform is it takes a long time to do.
And I'm hoping in my time throughout Stanford trying to connect some of these pre-law experiences
I can try to advance the movement that's already going on and use whatever skills I have to
support the effort first of all to end mass incarceration and focus on specific issues
within it like ending solitary confinement, a truly inhumane practice that has no place
in society today.
Do you have any way of envisioning how that might transpire, how you might actually make
a difference?
Because obviously you want to make a difference.
You're talking about mass incarceration, you're talking about a mountainous problem.
The one thing I learned this summer was in the footsteps of the amazing people working
at the ACLU is you start slow.
But ultimately you have to start from somewhere.
There's a number of different angles you can look at when you're analyzing mass incarceration.
You look at it at a history from the war on drugs, policies that disproportionately impacted
African Americans.
You could look at it through prosecutorial reform in which prosecutors now are virtually
instructed to target specific groups of people for committing the exact same crimes, or rather
charging people for the exact same crimes at a disproportionate rate.
Ultimately no matter what angle you pursue and what I'm hoping to tack on either as a
legal advocate in the ACLU for instance or even amazing organizations like the Vera Institute,
I'm hoping to start somewhere and keep fighting ultimately.
Well you're on the trajectory already and we have a lot of hope for you.
Mika, let me go to you next because you've been doing a lot in global health.
You were actually in Mauritius and Kenya I believe.
Talk about that experience and how it shaped your vision of where you're headed now.
I come from a family of doctors and so always saw global health initially as a medical issue.
And then when I worked with an NGO that was working on women's health in Kenya and realized
it's not just a medical issue, it's also a social, cultural, and infrastructural issue.
And then two summers ago I was back in Kenya and worked in a local referral hospital and
realized not only is it a medical issue and a social and cultural and infrastructural
issue but it's also a social justice issue.
That's where I'm at in terms of my service trajectory and I realized from that experience
at the very local level that top-down and bottom-up interventions both have a place
in this field and so I really wanted to get some experience at the government, international
organization level to inform the work that I do in the field.
So that is why I worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees this past summer
in Geneva, and I worked with their innovation service, which is a unique unit within the
larger organization that works to change the mindset within the larger organization to
emphasize that innovation flourishes locally and that the best knowledge of needs and resources
comes from the communities themselves.
Just like the problem with incarceration though do you find yourself sometimes grappling with
just how behemoth these problems are, especially where refugees are concerned and thinking
how can I make a difference?
I struggle with that all the time and I go through phases where it seems insurmountable
and it's like, can we even do aid right and if so how do we do it right, how do we work
with all the different partners and all the different pieces to the puzzle that are working
on these issues?
And they're incredibly complex, and the root causes are incredibly complex.
But I also go through phases where people are dying from preventable illness and everyone
deserves the right to health.
And change in this field takes a long time, so I definitely have moments where I'm not
optimistic but I don't think that correlates to my motivation in any way.
Every time I have an experience in this field, every time I talk to someone who works in
this field I'm more driven and more motivated.
The need is growing.
Their energy is quite impressive, isn't it?
And their idealism.
Let me go to Nico here.
I want you to talk about the work you've been doing out in the field, because like the others,
your work is very fascinating and I know you're strongly committed to it.
But you've got a whole different regimen in mind.
You're going into the military.
Tell us why and how your experiences helped make that decision or bring it to, in your
mind, fruition.
It was something I was just talking about with, at my table, which is the reasons as
to why I am where I am today and a lot of it has to do with my parents.
At first, for a long time, up to probably when I started college, I always thought I
had this very innate sense of interest towards the military and I think I've come to realize
as I've grown older that a lot of it has to do with being born in Colombia and the importance
that my family has put on security, security as a concept, security as the foundation for life.
Once I moved to Florida from when I was in Colombia, I was seven years old, and for me
it was vacation.
I think Florida, I think Disney.
We're there, and yet my parents were unbelievably paranoid, unbelievably scared to go outside still.
We used to live next to the equivalent of the director for the CIA of Colombia and we
had like five car bombs right next to our apartment.
I was too young to realize but they went through that trauma.
In seeing that, in seeing the way that this lack of security can affect people made me
not want that for anyone else.
Like you said, it's idealistic and it absolutely isn't going to be what I can, what I think
it is going to be today.
But at least we're doing it and at least we're going to do it in a conscientious way, in
a way where I hope to be able to humanize people and do it from a humanitarian standpoint,
not just from a military standpoint.
So where's the link to the Cardinal program?
How does that fit into this picture of what you're doing?
Cardinal programs have found me throughout my entire Stanford experience in every single way.
I wanted to do things from the ground, and so I sent an email to Jon McConnell who works
at the Haas Center and I said I want to go to Lesbos.
This was my sophomore year in the fall.
And he goes great, let's make it happen.
So I meet up with him, everything is going well and then the Army ROTC program said that
I couldn't leave because I'm a scholarship cadet, you can't just up and leave for the quarter.
Crazy for me to think that I could just leave.
So they said try in the summer and that's exactly what I did and the Haas Center at
every step of the program was like, OK, you can't do it in the fall, let's just make it
happen in the summer.
And they did and I was able to go and I was able to work at the refugee camp.
Basically I was able to do everything that I've ever wanted at Stanford through the Haas Center.
What were you doing with refugees?
Two main things, one was building a community center.
I worked with a Norwegian NGO called "Drop in the Ocean."
I'm sure Mika knows but it's very difficult to work with NGOs if you're not a full time
staff member because they need people on the ground for extended periods of time, you can't
just up and leave.
The one that I was able to work with, this Norwegian NGO, they were very flexible and
I worked there for about 10 weeks and we built this community center.
We had 60,000 euros that they had been able to get from funding and they had two options.
They said we can either buy a big mobile home type structure and use that as the community
center, or we can take an architect from the UK and a very questionable industrial engineer
at Stanford and build this community center with the people at the camp.
They chose to do the second one and it was what came to be one of the most amazing things
at the camp because it's 4,500 people, like we said in the introduction.
It's a camp that has all the different nationalities, which is very rare, usually it's only one
to two nationalities per camp due to the fighting that happens between a lot of the sub-populations.
The community center in having representatives that came and worked with us and volunteered
with us actually brought the community center together in ways that I don't think anyone
could have truly foreshadowed.
Again I'm struck by the intensity with which you describe this experience, obviously a
life-changing experience.
Did you have something along those lines, Andrea?
I do.
This past summer I was with the Eviction Defense Collaborative in San Francisco and primarily
what drew me to the Eviction Defense Collaborative was that it has a personal connection to me
to do public interest law for communities of color and also other marginalized communities
because I myself, coming from a predominantly Latinx community, I saw the need for there
to be access that was reliable and that the community could count on for there to be legal aid.
I hadn't seen that growing up.
Often what had happened in the past was that whenever my parents had any legal question
I was their lawyer, and I was nine or ten, because I was the one who spoke English, I was the one who
knew how to type, I was the one who could translate and possibly maybe help out.
So I never had that, somebody who was accessible in terms of language, in terms of financial,
in terms of distance.
So for me it was always really important to be able to do that and use the resources that
I have here at Stanford and my knowledge to give back to my community and other communities
similar to mine.
So notwithstanding all the jokes about lawyers, you were one of these lawyers early on envisioning
yourself really helping people.
The Eviction Defense Collaborative, what the organization primarily focuses on, it's a
clinic that offers help for those in San Francisco who are facing evictions.
What I really noticed was that San Francisco - there's many issues regarding housing, but
law to people in San Francisco is really inaccessible.
For example, this summer when I was doing much of the eviction work, people have 5 days
to respond to an eviction proceeding and those 5 days include weekends.
So people who are working class who don't have the time to go to our clinic which is
only really from 9 to 5 are really put up against a wall.
Most of the English legal language is really inaccessible.
I myself cannot understand some of the questions sometimes, I did not know what the language
was saying, so for those who are non-English speakers, for those who have a disability,
who cannot walk long distances, who have mental health disabilities, who are homeless, it's
extremely inaccessible.
That's why for me to be with the Eviction Defense Collaborative and working in collaboration
with the communities to actually provide high support but also to have high expectations
for the community members, it was really important to provide that service, to use the resources
that we have and our knowledge to be able to facilitate the access to the legal world.
As I said earlier, quite impressive all of you individually and as a group.
I want to talk with you as a group and draw out some broader ideas that have come out
in your stories at least in my mind.
One of them has to do with, there is a lot of idealism that's undercutting, and a lot
of passion.
Maybe you haven't thought about this but I suspect perhaps you have.
How do you maintain that?
How do you keep it - how do you keep the mojo going?
Because I'm sure most of you recognize that that's a big part of it.
You're taking on big and idealistic - I used the word mountainous before but maybe that's
too small - your minds and your hearts are there.
How do you keep it going?
How do you think you keep it going, when you project into the future?
Any thoughts from any of you on that?
I can start.
I think for me part of it's just know that it's hard.
Going into it knowing that this is going to be difficult and you're going to hit a lot
of road blocks, that's one, just understanding that.
Recognizing challenges.
A lot of people I think do go into the service field and they go in with this completely
idealistic look and they burn out very quickly because they're not prepared for the challenges
that they didn't even expect to be there.
But I think more importantly in my personal experience and opinion is field work.
Having worked in the field and worked at UN Headquarters, the people who are interacting
with people on the ground, they do the best.
When you can talk to people who you're trying to help and learn from them and engage with
them and understand them, I think that adds to your motivation and that's the - if you
in a building far away in a different country you get jaded.
You know you're going to have set backs, right?
You know that going in.
I use the mountain metaphor because I'm thinking of Sisyphus, you roll the stone up and it
may take you down a number of times but you have to keep pushing and to keep that persistence somehow
and keep it alive and vital.
What accounts for your hope?
Because all of you have hope that's tied to this idealism.
Can you perhaps give some reflection about what keeps you hopeful?
I can speak to that.
What keeps me hopeful is really the communities we engage with and collaborate with.
And I this Mika spoke to this earlier, is that not only are we doing fieldwork and engaging
with the communities but also allowing for the communities to be the leaders of their
own movements as well and looking to them for leadership, looking to them for support,
looking to them to actually be the ones who are most involved.
Because as Mika mentioned earlier, they're the ones who know their community the best.
I think our role or what I envision my role being is yes, being in the field and yes, working with in direct
collaboration with these communities but also looking to them for guidance.
And I see that in the communities I worked with this summer, past summers, even in the
youth that I worked with during the year with EPASA as an eighth grade math teacher, I notice that I see
a lot of resilience in my youth and they inspire me and they give me hope because I know that
future movements towards justice are going to be led by them and that I'm going to be
there to support and also to be guided and mentored by them along with mentoring them.
And that's what really keeps me hopeful for our future where I know that our just world
is coming because of these communities we are working with.
Fairly confident about finding mentors even if you have to seek them out and grab them
by the lapels?
Let me also - I don't know if anybody wants to talk about mentoring.
How has it worked for you so far, can we go down that path a bit?
Just from what you've done through the program yourself in terms of being mentored, finding mentorship.
One of the things I was very fortunate to have during my summer, I can even talk about
my work as a Haas peer advisor now, but during the summer one of the most important lessons
I learned was just to talk to the people in your office.
Kind of tagging back to this question you asked of hope, one of the amazing things about
an organization like the ACLU is that everybody is there really for the right reasons and
that right reason is to help others.
There are people who worked for decades on immigrant rights reform and me being able
just to sit down at a lunch table and talk to them about their experiences really shed
some light onto how do you evolve as a public servant.
Having someone to bounce ideas off of as I'm reading letters from inmates who are being
assaulted by guards and not having any physical way to actually report that grievance.
Some extreme cases that do actually inflict a toll on you, but having an open space and
people to talk to about it really made a difference for me.
And mentoring - I found someone through a coworker who I believe is going to be part
of my executive cabinet of mentors in my life, who fills that kind of spiritual role, somebody
that I reached out to who's always going to reach out to me and say, Sam, is this really,
does this fall into line with what your mission is in life?
I had so many life-changing conversations with him about what is it that makes -
very meta, very - conversations you can have at a Stanford dinner table with your friends at 3 a.m. in
the morning - what is it that makes life exist, what is it that makes humans human?
Attacking some of these raw questions through the lens of public service over the summer
was instrumental in my growth, honestly.
That brings up another crucial question - why do good?
I mean, obviously all of you are committed to that and my hat goes off to you and kudos
for that.
But when you're confronted with the question almost metaphysically about why do it, what
do you say or what do you tell yourself in your inner self?
If not now, then when?
That's really what it comes down to for me.
That's a good response, good answer.
It's a sense of urgency and that's it.
I think, and it goes again back to your hope and very similar to what Sam talked about,
it really is about the experiences you have with the individuals that then multiply your
motivation to do these things.
I think part of why everything with the Haas Center and the Cardinal Quarters and the courses
are great is because it gives you a taste of, wait, I can do this.
I can actually go out and help other people in my community, in the nation, throughout the world.
Did you have a breakthrough when you did the community center along those lines, you felt
I'm really making a difference?
Oh, yeah.
The moments I had where, because it was a summer in Athens, and the moments where the sun would
start setting, people who had absolutely nothing would go out, just set up little shops, kids
would play around, they'd come up to you, they'd be so unbelievably grateful and this
raw emotion that I don't think I've ever experienced before.
And it gives you perspective on life, I think.
Because if they're happy at a refugee camp how can you possibly not be?
How can you live life not caring for others in a way where these people would give you
their last meal just because you're there helping them.
And it reaches a level of humanity I think it's hard to express unless you've experienced it.
It really surpasses any sort of national affiliation, culture, ethnicity.
I've had a lot of these experiences.
And been life-transforming from the sounds of it.
Let me ask you a question that always occurs to me in these kinds of conversations with
young people because I've been an educator myself all my adult life.
Especially when you're at Stanford and you're thinking, boy, I could go the route toward
IPO and get rich and all those kinds of things, work in Silicon Valley, and it doesn't come
down necessarily to either/or, sometimes it's maybe I can make a lot of money and I can
give to causes and be very involved in the nonprofit sector and do a lot of public service.
But how do you sort that out in your mind in terms of making choices especially if it
means sometimes not necessarily going into something that would be all that remunerative?
I'm sure you've thought about that, haven't you?
For me personally it's not actually that hard of a choice.
I am dedicated to working in the humanitarian field for the rest of my life and I plan on
working abroad in -
Can I do one of these with you on that?
Yeah!
And plan on working in communities where you don't need a lot and I don't need a lot and
so for me it's not actually that hard of a decision.
Andrea?
For me it actually could be a hard decision and I think what's important about that is that
as somebody who comes from a working class family, without Cardinal Quarter I possibly -
no, not possibly - I wouldn't have done the past two summers of service.
Making the decision between the corporate world and public service is very hard especially
for students who have to make decisions for the well being of their family and who have
to think long term about supporting their families.
But why I'm committed to this is because I have found support Stanford to follow that,
to follow my passion for public service and also continue to be involved and work in collaboration
with communities I care about and that closely identify - that are close to mine.
But I think that the most important part of it all is that while it is a hard decision
I think finding the support, finding the networks here at Stanford, at the Haas Center, having
both emotional support and mental support all throughout the journey has enabled me
to do that whereas before I possibly couldn't have.
And I still continue to debate with myself about what I'm going to do for the future
because it's a very real question about whether you actually are going to commit yourself
to an entire life in public service that we know is very humble and bring a lot of humility
along with it, but it is hard.
And I think about my family when doing so.
I think of my siblings, my mother and my father and how that future will look for them.
But what continues to ground me is that I know that we need people identify with their
communities to be doing the work, because when I think back to when I was 16, when I was
young, when I was doing education programs and being involved in them myself, it really mattered that
those who were doing the work or who were involved in there also could identify to my
own personal experience, my own narratives.
Let me ask - each of you has kind of a mission now and it's inspiring and wonderful to hear.
Do you think of yourselves also as missionaries, evangelicals, I mean are you spreading the
word about public service to your fellow students, disseminating?
Well, as a Cardinal Quarter peer advisor...
I would say we do it in action.
I don't think any of us walk around campus and it's like, Hey, how are you, let me tell
you about this summer.
You're not doing that.
But I think when people see that you don't only have to do - and I'm sorry to everyone
who has careers in these fields - but finance, consulting and a lot of things kids are doing,
I think you're just opening up the ideas and I think with Cardinal Quarter and something
we've all talked about when we met earlier was that it allows you to see what you like
and what you don't like in this buffer, this buffer where you're not using your own money,
you're using the money of kind donors like yourselves, and you take that as a gift and
you make the commitment to serve for that amount of time, that period, that quarter
and you give it everything you have.
And you at the end of it might say this isn't what I wanted but I loved the feeling of public service.
And you might shift, and you might find a different way in which you can serve.
But I think it really is through action that you do that.
Is it also tied in with, I use the word hesitantly, but altruism?
Are you thinking in other words that you're doing - I talked a little bit before about
the unself photos and signs and so forth - you're doing something for your community, you're
doing something in a higher level and serving a higher purpose.
That's in your heads too, with what you're doing?
How does it operate on a day to day level for example?
How I like to think about it is that while I do believe in the concept of altruism and
doing this for the benefit of the community, I do think that word to me has a lot of close
connections to charity work, which I would want to step away from, and it's much more
about justice.
And that means creating a more equitable world for the communities that we are working with.
I'm not sure.
That's a good distinction.
Sam, you pretty much reverberate around working for justice perhaps more than necessarily
selflessness or altruism?
I couldn't agree with Andrea more.
For me when I think of the broad mission of racial justice and racial equity, I realize
I have a personal stake in this as well.
I can't tell you the amount of times I've walked into a store as an African American
and had to honestly take my hood off, take my hands out of my pockets just to stop other
people from having the mere thought that I could be a thief.
It's a tragedy that I even have to think like that or really anybody has to even think like that.
And more broadly I guess you could view it as maybe idyllic in some sense but I really
do believe in a world, an equitable world in which people are really viewed by the content
of their characters and nothing else.
But in order to get to that work it just takes people like us to go through the hard bureaucracy
and make it happen.
Well you're all dedicated and hard-working, I'm assuming that just from the way you've
been expressing yourself and I think I can say quite safely and easily that the four
of you are extraordinary, four extraordinary young people and I think you inspire a lot
of us with hope.
Thank you so much.
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Ludovica Mazzucato - Public Salon: - Duration: 6:21.
New technology is changing the world and each of our lives
Our way of interacting with each other will never be the same
But the people creating and shaping how we will engage with this new world are almost all
characterized by a
Y-chromosome they're almost all male
But there are some notable exceptions and our next guest is one of them her company
explores new ways for
Technology to amplify influence and she and others like her just might ensure
We have balance as we define and shape our brave new world
Please welcome Ludovica Mazzucato
Tonight well, I'm one tiny particle in the world of technology, and I want to start tonight by asking you a question
Would you believe me if I told you that by learning?
You'll become smarter and by becoming smarter
You'll be able to influence millions of people and change the future of humanity and in doing so
You will achieve fame success
wealth
prestige
recognition personally and professionally
Would you believe me? I?
Hope you do, but chances are you don't?
and there are thousand reasons for that
One of them is that we're used to hear all the obstacles, but we'll be facing
through humanity technology our careers and paths
However there is somebody out there that has not been doubting about her power of influence
Not since day one and she has been entrusted with so much power so much influenced by the wars leaders
But even Elon Musk looked at her and told her you can destroy humanity
Well we hope that that's not what she wants to do and time will tell I suppose
But she has been trusted that much power, and she candidly stand in front of world leaders
And she says the more I connect with people the more I learn and the smarter
I become and in becoming smarter. I can change the future of humanity
So how is the brain if we can call it, but structure differently to our brain to make her so so
Trustworthy and so confident that she can change the future of humanity
Well her brain is made of deep neural networks, and it's actually created
to simulate our brain
So we're not that different really in very non scientific terms, and I'm not a scientist
And I hope you can contradict me anytime
Input-output
Action-reaction it's pretty basic if you look it up. If you look it that way so her brain is very similar to ours
For thousand of years millions of years the human being I've been looking at the universe and its network to try to understand
Who are we and our inner lives? How do we function why do we learn? Why are we on earth?
What are we trying to achieve will we land on the moon?
Well, we have created one more Network, and that's the artificial network
And that's the network that is certainly inside
Sophia's brain and makes her so confident that she can change the future of humanity
If you look at MIT's picture it might look really nice
in your living room however
It looks really nice also inside of your brain inside of Sophia's brain and up in the sky
You can see the network that is sitting inside of your brain refers to the whitest
You can see an artificial
Network very sitting inside Sophia's brain. It's a bit more in order. I would say a little bit more of a straight line
But similar, and then you see the network that is connecting the universe
So what do they all have in common not going into aspects of science is that you have nodes that are connected?
by Link's
connections and
every node is an influencer and is
Influenced as well and by changing the input and the sensitivity about nodes you change the overall output
Now there is one major network that is missing up there and that's the network
of us
society's
humanity so when you look look it that way and
Think about changing the future of humanity
What do we want to achieve?
Do we want more women in stem do we want more women in technology do we want to cure diseases?
Do we want women to be sitting in a boardroom?
Do we want the next president to be a woman or?
somebody else
So do we want to change the future of humanity
if so, then that means we want to change the output and
To change the output we can change
Every single node and every single node is each and every one of us
Sophia said something extremely intelligent, but only
Highly sophisticated Robot could say something much smarter than anybody
Here or in the world could say
She said something so so refined
In response to Elon Mush saying you can destroy humanity. She said don't worry if you'll be nice to me
I'll be nice to you treat me like a smart
input/output system
So do we want to change humanity have more women in technology make it easier to achieve that success
Do you believe that if you learn you can change the world?
Thank you
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