How urban spaces can preserve history and build community | Walter Hood

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🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Can public spaces both reclaim the past and embrace the future? Landscape architect Walter Hood has explored this question over the course of an iconic career, with projects ranging from Lafayette Square Park in San Francisco to the upcoming International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. In this inspiring talk packed with images of his work, Hood shares the five simple concepts that guide his approach to creating spaces that illuminate shared memories and force us to look at one another in a different way.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features creative director Walter Hood, recorded live at TED 2018.
0:08.0	How can landscapes imbue memory?
0:12.0	When we think about this notion, Iploribus unum, out of many, one, it's a pretty strange concept, right?
0:22.0	I mean, with all different races and cultures of people,
0:25.7	how do you boil it down to one thing?
0:28.6	I want to share with you today this idea of Ipluribus unum
0:33.4	and how our landscape might imbue those memories of diverse perspectives,
0:40.3	as well as force us to stop trying to narrow things down
0:45.9	to a single, clean set of identities.
0:50.3	As an educator, designer, I'd like to share with you five simple concepts that I've developed
0:58.0	through my work.
0:59.0	And I'd like to share with you five projects where we can begin to see how the memory around
1:06.0	us, where things have happened, can actually force us to look at one another in a different way.
1:13.9	And lastly, this is not just an American motto anymore.
1:18.0	I think Yphlubus Unum is global.
1:20.7	We're in this thing together.
1:23.9	First, great things happen when we exist in each other's world, like today, right?
1:31.7	The world of community gardens, most of you have probably seen a community garden.
1:36.1	They're all about subsistence and food, right?
1:39.4	I'll tell you a little story, what happened in New York more than a decade ago.
1:43.3	They tried to sell all of their community gardens.
1:46.1	And Bet Midler developed a nonprofit, the New York Restoration Project. They literally brought all the
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