Walter Hood: How urban spaces can preserve history and build community
沃尔特 · 胡德: 城市空间如何能保护历史和建立社区?
Walter Hood imagines urban spaces as a new kind of public sculpture -- full of beauty, strangeness and idiosyncrasy. Full bio
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"e pluribus unum" ——
this notion "e pluribus unum" --
不同传统背景的人中,
and cultures of people,
this idea of "e pluribus unum"
有关"合众为一"的一些想法,
这些不同视角的记忆,
those memories of diverse perspectives,
trying to narrow things down
five simple concepts
工作中总结出来的。
with you five projects
发现身边的回忆,
how the memory around us,
at one another in a different way.
an American motto anymore.
when we exist in each other's world --
伟大的事情就发生了 ——
seen a community garden.
and food. Right?
more than a decade ago.
all of their community gardens,
the New York Restoration Project.
非营利组织 ——纽约复兴计划——
and make these beautiful gardens,
改造这些漂亮的花园吧!
just be about food.
简单地为食物而存在了。
Restoration Project Office,
有一个熟悉的名字。
on the door downstairs.
G-Unit(五角兵团)吧?
and before you knew it,
和其他几个人创建了这个组织,
formed this collaboration,
in Jamaica, Queens.
牙买加区的花园。
grew up in Jamaica.
将这些不同的人联系在一起——
bringing these worlds together --
十大神秘花园之一。
secret gardens in New York.
刊登了这样一个故事,
about six months ago
找到了心灵的慰藉。
found solace in going to the garden.
50角乐队的贡献比我大多了。
It had more to do with 50, I'm sure,
大家对花园的思考,
to think about gardens
in a different way.
it would be to explain,
my father looked at me,
我爸曾看着我说,
to be both black and white
parts of the 20th century,
W·E·B· 杜波依斯曾经说过,
of other people,
this double consciousness.
than a hundred years later,
成长得更强壮和坚韧,
strong and resilient,
the world through the eyes of others --
to the rest of those
身边的世界中找到这种两面性。
can find itself in the world around us.
这些故事的时候发生。
we're beginning to share these stories.
by Thomas Jefferson,
to notice now was built by African hands.
由非洲人亲手建造的地方啊!
was expanding to the south,
that was the house of Kitty Foster,
男孩们打扫卫生。
a commemorative piece.
两面性设计出来,黑和白,
both black and white ...
based on shadows and light.
to develop a shadow-catcher
我们设计了一个影子捕手,
in a different way.
to be unresolved.
令我们之间有了沟通。
allows us to have a conversation.
in this conference,
when I was a young pup,
我还是一个年轻的学生,
in downtown Oakland, California
在加利福尼亚州奥克兰市中心
can be in the same space
可以和西装革履的人
“这不可能的。
"That's never going to work.
with the homeless people."
barbecue pits, smokers,
we went to the then-mayor
这只需要花费您110万美元。”
going to cost you 1.1 million dollars."
没有任何负担, 还筹集了资金。
and we raised the money.
built the bathroom.
homeless problem in the Bay Area.
希望他们对这些
也产生这样的同理心,
for the people under freeways and tents,
在公共空间安置他们?
is Lafayette Square Park today.
是今天的拉斐特广场公园。
地震发生后的金门公园。
Golden Gate Park after the earthquake.
而我们却对此视而不见。
and we don't see them.
and they'll be visible.
这样我们就能看到他们了。
people out there with empathy,
that park became the vehicle for him.
那个公园成了他的载体。
beautiful architecture, beautiful parks --
那里有美丽的建筑和公园 ——
and then new people come in
places for community gatherings, etc.
taught many black actors.
指导黑人演员的地方。
20世纪80年代联邦政策的实施,
1980s federal practices,
fell into disrepair.
都存在年久失修的状况。
we were able to raise money
我们能够筹集资金
a community meeting.
people got up and said,
Why are we locked in?
为什么我们要变成这样呢?
putting in chicken coops, hay bales,
在其中放入鸡舍,干草捆,
that traditional thing behind them.
背后的传统了。
the community back.
to get five million dollars.
获得了500万美元。
和黑色人种的传统回来了,
to these brown and black people,
a project that we're currently working on,
我们正在做的一个项目,
以一种不同的方式记住今天的话题。
to remember in a really different way.
in the landscape around us,
这些景观的地下部分。
what's below the ground.
Gadsden’s Wharf.
of the African diaspora landed here.
非洲侨民是从这里登陆的。
African American Museum.
beneath the ground,
the ground will erupt,
this tension that sits below.
is made of tabby shales
on the other side,
the remains of the warehouse,
一呆就是好几天,
with the sickle-cell trait,
一段段漫长的时间。
for long, long days.
those other beautiful things
brought with them:
that live in trees and rocks and water,
岩石和水中的灵魂的习俗,
for medicinal purposes.
in Charleston, South Carolina,
查尔斯顿的人们,
of blackness at all.
that helped abolitionists see
condition of the crossing,
出现在查尔斯顿博物馆里。
in a museum in Charleston.
up on top of the surface,
full length, six feet,
to walk across that divide.
当人们来到这儿的时候:
with that memory of place,
调和我们自己的想法。
again to reconcile the scale.
through this landscape every day,
人们就能想起来这些故事。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Walter Hood - Creative directorWalter Hood imagines urban spaces as a new kind of public sculpture -- full of beauty, strangeness and idiosyncrasy.
Why you should listen
Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. He is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally. Hood Design Studio is a tripartite practice, working across art and fabrication, design and landscape, and research and urbanism. The resulting urban spaces and their objects act as public sculpture, creating new apertures through which to see the surrounding emergent beauty, strangeness and idiosyncrasies.
The Studio’s award-winning work has been featured in publications including Dwell, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fast Company, Architectural Digest, Places Journal and Landscape Architecture Magazine. Hood is a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award.
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