How to build resilience through architecture (w/ Alyssa-Amor Gibbons)

How to Be a Better Human

TED and PRX

Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Millions of people around the world are displaced by the enhanced natural disasters brought on by climate change, and sometimes, our economically driven world makes us feel powerless. Alyssa-Amor Gibbons knows about climate devastation and its effect on community first hand – but she thinks we can tap into our resilience through the power of design. In this episode, Alyssa shares how architecture can fundamentally change our perspective and our relationship to the planet – while helping us honor the indigenous communities that have sustained it for millennia.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to How to Bea
0:08.0	You're listening to How to Be a Better Human.
0:11.0	I'm your host Chris Duffy. Architecture is an art form that to me often
0:17.2	is invisible. But when I do start to pay attention to it, when I start to really see it I realize how huge an impact
0:24.2	architecture has on my day-to-day life. I mean it's no exaggeration to say that it is
0:28.4	literally all around me since I'm indoors right now. Architecture is more than just our physical spaces though.
0:34.8	It also determines how well our homes, our offices,
0:38.1	and our other structures hold up under pressure
0:40.2	or in a natural disaster.
0:42.1	And that's a factor that's increasingly urgent in the face of climate change.
0:46.0	That is exactly what today's guest,
0:48.0	Alyssa Amor Gibbons, focuses on in her work.
0:51.0	Her approach to architecture has not only helped me to think more about architecture itself,
0:55.6	it's also changed the way that I think about resilience. Here's a clip from her TED Talk.
1:00.5	As a child growing up in Barbados, there were two things I can count on every summer.
1:06.0	School break and the hurricane season.
1:10.0	At some point, we would go through this whole routine of duct taping all the glass doors in these big X patterns
1:18.1	tightly boarding up all the windows except for one or two
1:22.5	So that as my mother would curiously put it except for one or two,
1:25.1	so that, as my mother would curiously put it,
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