Liz Ogbu: What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?
ليز أوجبو: ماذا لو كان الترميم يقوم بشفاء المجتمعات بدلاً من تشريدهم؟
Liz Ogbu works with/in communities in need, to use tactical, human-centered design to tackle wicked social problems and catalyze community healing. Full bio
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of social scientists,
in my mom's Sears catalog ...
من كاتلوج والدتي سيرز...
personal art gallery,
was surprised when I became an architect.
قد تفاجئ عندما أصبحت مهندسة معمارية
of the architect I became
الذي أصبحته
around my family's dinner table.
على مائدة العشاء العائلية.
lived and connected to one another,
ويتواصلون مع بعضهم البعض،
on a village in Zambia
على قرية في زامبيا
in the streets of San Francisco.
يجلس بجوارك
does that have to do with architecture?"
بالهندسة المعمارية؟"
of texting and tweeting,
من الرسائل النصية والتغريدات،
hasn't done a great job
لم تكن تقوم بعمل عظيم
of monuments like the Gherkin
المعالم الأثرية مثل جرجكن
rather than the have-nots.
بدلاً من الذين لا يملكون.
to certain peoples' stories --
most often been silenced.
means that we understand
of resources, services and access
والخدمات، والوصول إليها
African-American neighborhood
الأميركي-الإفريقي التاريخي
that once held a power plant.
كانت تمتلك محطة للطاقة.
who lived in the public housing
الأمهات اللآتي يعشن في السكن العام
like land entitlements,
مثل استحقاقات الأراضي،
for at least five to 10 years.
لمدة لا تقل عن خمس إلى عشر سنوات.
near a power plant for decades,
in their backyard.
في فنائهم الخلفي.
to about 30 football fields.
didn't want to be the bad guy here.
أن تكون الشخص السيء هنا.
that responded to that call,
الذين استجابوا لتلك الدعوة،
with those mothers
and the utility company.
with all types of events
أنواع المناقشات واللقائات
of spatial justice.
that we've been operational,
التي كنا نعمل بها،
and done something on this site
وقاموا بشيء في هذا الموقع
their relationship to it.
that events are not enough.
in this neighborhood.
to talk concretely
للتحدث بثقة
to sell it to a developer,
كما يفعل الآخرين؟"
luxury condos like everyone else?"
and resources in this neighborhood?"
ومصادر أكثر هنا؟"
had failed to bring joy.
there was still pain here.
كان هناك ألم لا يزال هناك.
of environmental injustice
uses in this neighborhood,
في هذا الحي،
من النفايات السامة
one of the lowest per capita income,
واحد من أدنى دخل للفرد،
like Twitter, Airbnb and Uber call home.
مثل تويتر، ايربنب وأوبر بالديار.
a gentrification push
this neighborhood,
to talk about gentrification.
للتحدث عن التحسين.
it's kind of like a dirty word.
أنها نوع من الكلمات البذيئة.
with the displacement
of losing a place that held your story.
عشت فيه طيلة حياتك
and imagine your way into it right now.
وتتخيل طريقك إليه الآن.
to find your favorite local spot,
بأن المكان المحلي المفضل لديك،
with the old-timers or your friends,
بالأوقات القديمة أو مع أصدقائك،
you're feeling right now,
who harmed you meant to do so.
أو لم يكن قد فعل ذلك عمداً.
to hang around long enough
مدة طويلة بما فيها الكفاية
and economic displacement as inevitable?
والتهجير الاقتصادي على أنه أمر لا مفر منه؟
of past injustices --
people's capacity to stay --
at those past injustices
that is interwoven into them.
on my own work,
have been recurring themes.
كانا موضوعين متكررين.
in the Bayview Hunters Point project
في مشروع بايفيو هنترز بوينت
set aside like an island --
with day laborers.
مع العمال اليوميين.
of being robbed of his wages many times
التي تعرض لها من أجرته مرات عديدة
the sacredness of this site?"
رؤية قدسية هذا الموقع؟"
in Charlottesville and New Orleans ...
في شارلوتسفيل ونيو أورليانز ..
their industrial lifeblood
with a very long trail of broken promises
طويلة من الوعود المنهارة
that the foundations cannot hold?
was never part of my job description
ليست جزء من الوصف الوظيفي الخاص بي
when there's space for pain.
تكون هناك مساحة للألم.
in the neighborhood,
الذين قادوا لإغلاق مكان العمل هذا.
who had led the fight to close the plant.
a sense of impending loss.
بشعور الخسارة الوشيكة.
أو يموتون في سن الشيخوخة،
stories were being lost.
the amazing things
we reached out to StoryCorps.
recorded for posterity.
على إذاعة NPR كل صباح جمعة.
on NPR every Friday morning.
community meetings
just talk about joy
to grow up in the neighborhood.
عندما تكبر فى الحي.
and questioned by a police officer
of living in this neighborhood,
that had sprung up
to first express pain and grief,
للتعبير عن الألم والحزن أولاً،
to brainstorm ideas for a site --
حول موقع ما...
of what we did over the next four years.
لما فعلناه خلال السنوات الأربع القادمة.
different meeting now?
was not created in a day.
لم يتم إنشاؤه في يوم واحد.
go to therapy just once and be cured?
الذهاب للعلاج مرة واحدةً فقط فيتعافى؟
more listening sessions,
المزيد من جلسات الاستماع،
in a place where pain didn't exist
المعالجة غائبةً بالكامل.
honing my skills as an architect,
لتطوير مهاراتى كمهندس معاري،
where I should be telling you
حيث يحب أن أخبركم
I have learned along the way.
to listen to everyone.
to see built in the future
lost or unfulfilled.
with our own guilt,
مع شعورنا بالذنب
Anne Marks once observed,
to put a clean slate over our pain,
in Bayview Hunters Point.
في باي فيو هنترز بوينت.
says that healing renews our faith
الشفاء يجدد إيماننا
as an architect-healer
what I can become,
ما أستطيع أن أصبح عليه،
that I work with can become,
الذي أعمل معه،
to take that journey alone.
with the way that things are now.
far more resilient than you think.
to stay in the presence of it,
that we can make together
أن ننصنعه سويةً
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Liz Ogbu - Designer, urbanist, social change agentLiz Ogbu works with/in communities in need, to use tactical, human-centered design to tackle wicked social problems and catalyze community healing.
Why you should listen
Liz Ogbu writes: "While I received my architecture training at a prestigious architecture school (Harvard), my vision of architecture has always been broader than just bricks and mortar. I believe that the very act of design is about creating places that enable people to be and feel acknowledged, to connect to one another, to heal and to thrive. For me, design solutions emerge not just from an aesthetic place but from also taking a human-centered approach in which people’s needs and desires drive the process; problems (and solutions) are looked at not at the level of isolated objects but from the perspective of systemic injustices. Ideas are prototyped rapidly, in real time, at human scale, and in collaboration with communities.
"I’ve intensely pursued opportunities to advance this vision throughout my career, from founding an innovative social impact design consultancy, Studio O, to projects like designing shelters for immigrant day laborers to advocacy work like Dick and Rick: A Primer on Social Impact Design to research around issues of equitable development in urban marginalized communities in Australia and South Africa."
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