Cool. So I've got a couple questions about your book for you. a public space , if you can give somebody access to the arts or to a different kind of experience, that there is power in extending your own realm of privilege
So my research tells the story of inventors, who helped to shape the landscape in which women could move in new ways independently, unchaperoned in public space , who embraced a plethora of new technologies, such as the bicycle, the sewing machine, new waterproof and woolen fabrics, and a range of new media, and who pushed at the parameters of established forms of gendered citizenship.
And so sitting there telling myself my own stories was a way for me to, I guess, strengthen myself a little bit, and get ready for public consumption that comes from the public space of being visible. And so it very much started from daily journals.
and he hits the ceiling. uh he proposed to President Zilinski reform which he obviously did not back and that is why he went into a public space openly as an insider from Zilinsk's team criticizing his way of running Ukraine.
Just as we lose noncommercial spaces, we also see all of our own time and our actions as potentially commercial. Just as public space gives way to faux public retail spaces or weird corporate privatized parks, so we are sold the idea of compromise leisure-- a freemium leisure that is a very far cry from what we will.
And in the 1890s, clothing was a critical means through which bodies are made to fit, both physically and also ideologically, with changing ideas about being in and moving through public space and attaching to all these new and exciting technologies. And some bodies fitted much easier with these new technologies.
But the skirt was still flapping quite close to that back wheel. harassed in public space often in relation to what they wear.
OK. So why am I stressing this? It's a public space where there is a single focus, and you do not have to become intimate with others or know anything.
empathy museums a place which is not about dusty exhibits you know like an old Victorian Museum but at an experiential and conversational public space where you might walk in and in the first room there is a human library where you can borrow people for conversations you walk into the next room and there are 20 sewing machines and there are former vietnamese sweatshop workers there who would teach
Like, I was on the Today Show twice. It was about public space and who had access to it.
And they actually said, "That's not allowed. That's public space . No one can use it." That was the quote. Nice and Orwellian. And so, he finally got the attention of the mayor's office and they actually got excited about it and so they built this thing.
This is the Diller Von Furstenberg sun deck between 14th and 15th Street, looking out to the river. You have public space , New York City, public parkland, which goes through these donut holes in private buildings.
about a fto second um and uh and it turned out that uh um I really like public Space games uh
In fact, the Tenderloin, as you will see, is an incredibly rich neighborhood that actually compared to only two other neighborhoods has a lot of social interaction. It's a place where public space is being used a lot in very sociable ways, in ways that I think are actually pretty great and I'll show you more of that. However there's still - anyway, I will get more into that. I just wanted to make a clarification so I definitely do not presume to influence the entire society to such a degree.
Mona Caron: Somewhere in here. the convivial use of public space , the neighborhood is actually so much further along in achieving that than other places that it was an absolute pleasure and again despite all the societal
so that you can start to monitor everybody as much as possible. Every molecule change in public space wandering direction. But that's not good enough by itself, because -- as you all know here -- if you could understand something, you can digitalize it. If you can digitalize it, you could hack it
And then to the left is the royal insignia before the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy, so the changing and transformations of symbols in public space , symbols of the nation, all of that. So these are all stories that can be told through objects, of course.
All the stories I've been collecting are anonymous, handwritten, and maximum A4 page long. For the lack of a public space , it was very difficult to reach out to the general public, as I wasn't able of installing the story collection stands next to balila stands or vendors along the strip of Jeddah Corniche for example.
became a bit of a public space .
So her home then becomes this public space and a community space.
Several of you have probably-- we have public space treasures like the waterfront and Belle Isle and Dequindre Cut and Campus Martius.
But we're also revitalizing public space and parks in our neighborhoods as well.
It was built in a public space .
It can be in a public space .
OK. So why am I stressing this? So there's constant signifiers in the public space of the city telling you this is Catholic, and this is Protestant.
But had you met them in a public space or at a conference or an event, you would have never known that as children, they
Like, I was on the Today Show twice. So in this war over public space , which was a coded war, which was largely a war against young underprivileged kids--
figure out how to make public space in the library more attractive than it has been so libraries are one world where
And we never talk about that in the public space .
and knickerbockers, and no skirt, or a shorter skirt. So shocking was this change in dress in public space that it really divided the nation. Dress reform was incredibly controversial, with many arguing that the public's distaste for this radical form of masculinized clothing for women damaged women's freedom of movement.
the nature of buildings, public space , community and social services, driven by data-- how we can fundamentally bend the curve
especially when you're talking about Urban Technologies and public space should be collectively
actual, public space that's free, that's green, that's beautiful." And actually, in New York City's history, most of the parks and green spaces in the
Mezacausim is ideally meant to be seen by passers-by in public space , or if you left your web browser open constantly, I suppose that would also be a good way to see the work.
suburbs look more like pre-war cities to improve sidewalk space public space
tradition of of certain um you know absurdest events in public space that have been going on for a long time
one-on-one conversation with people in a public space .
- So what if you were to put a contactless reader into a public space , like, for example, between the walkway where you go through into the subway
And it really is about getting people out and interacting and really feeling comfortable in public space .
And I think that is a great example of where protecting a public space like that and how it welcomes
So on that note of time being closed down, I was sitting in the Rose Garden also thinking about how public space seems kind of like the corollary to free time and how free time and public space are threatened by the same phenomena. I was very inspired by the 19th-century movement for the eight-hour work day.
But you would expect someone to be looking at Facebook or something. One of the things that I compare in the book is an actual public space , like a park, to CityWalk, which is like a faux urban-looking space.
But you would expect someone to be looking at Facebook or something. I think one piece of it is the protection and expansion of public space .
It is this whole idea of being able to reclaim a bit of a public space , right?
But the skirt was still flapping quite close to that back wheel. And they're doing this by putting their radically different clad bodies out in public space .
investor more interesting to me is how this this uh begins to affect public space public infrastructure this is a
And the idea is basically to allow people to sync in a public space .
The very, very rich have moved away from public space and they just pay for their own services and they live in their own-- they're called communities
There's like bike lanes, et cetera on Market Street, et cetera, et cetera. And one thing, another thing that I'm trying to do in these murals is to sort of fan out a wide range of ways, legitimate ways to use public space so often again there's like this pressure where we're being told that the streets are really for just traffic and shopping really. There's nothing else and things kind of digress outside of that.
an abstract concept, you know? And so basically to remind us like - I would love like for us to use public space more for - in convivial ways and social ways other then just a regular old hurrying through, getting to the next spot. Then these murals - I showed you the sort of the wide view and this is a really small view.