A Space to Remember / Michael Arad

Deepak Chopra’s Infinite Potential

Infinite Potential Media, LLC

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We humans remember things on a uniquely grand scale. From the pyramids to the Washington Monument, we build memorials so we won't forget our past. Today, I try to understand why with Michael Arad, the visionary architect behind the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero, in New York City. When an act of terrorism changed the world forever, how could we do justice to physical and emotional destruction that occurred? Michael answered that question the only way he knew: by creating a memory space. Join me for this powerful conversation about history, truth, healing and how the spaces we live in and pass through can change our story, both personal and global. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We humans like to remember things on a grand scale.
0:12.8	We build museums and libraries.
0:16.0	We fill pages with our history.
0:19.4	We dig for bones in buried pasts and we build monuments to memory.
0:30.8	Here in New York where I live there's a memorial of such power and strength.
0:37.3	It's almost sacred.
0:40.0	At ground zero the 911 memorial spans eight acres and is named poetically.
0:47.3	Reflecting absence.
0:50.9	It's a grand gesture to not forget a terrible event in our history.
0:58.3	Why?
1:00.0	What is the purpose and the particular design that makes it in its short time and existence?
1:06.5	One of the most iconic pieces of architecture in the world.
1:11.6	Why do we want to remember?
1:17.4	Well, who better to ask than its architect?
1:25.4	What is the space that we create?
1:27.2	How does it affect others who walk through it?
1:30.8	As an architect that's our responsibility to try and make people's lives better in
1:34.9	physical but also emotional and metaphysical ways.
1:38.4	And so I think the memorial needs to act as a truth teller.
1:48.6	I'm Deepak Chopra and this is infinite potential where we explore what makes us
1:54.8	conscious beings and why it matters that we are.
2:08.0	Michael Arad was 32 years old when he witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center
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