Name: 【TED】John Cary: How architecture can create dignity for all (How architecture can create dignity for all | John Cary)
Uploaded: 2018-03-02T16:55:02.000Z
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for the birth of our first daughter, Maya.

We had responsibly toured the birthing center in advance

and yet we were somehow still startled to find ourselves

one of the most significant moments of our lives.

with no hint of the bright and sunny day that we had left.

as a wall clock indicated day turning to night.

to where my wife lay as her contractions increased hour after hour.

but she assured me that the last thing that a birthing woman would ever want

An architect by training, I've always been fascinated

watching people experience design in the world around them.

I believe design functions like the soundtrack

that we're not even fully aware is playing.

It sends us subconscious messages about how to feel

That room that we were in seemed completely misaligned

with the moment that we were experiencing --

At one point a nurse, without any prompt,

because I could have designed rooms like this better.'"

Despite the immense joy of our daughter's birth,

the messages of that hospital room stick with she and I to this day.

might just be described or dismissed as uninspiring.

And I use it to point out that none of us,

I went into architecture because I believed

it was about creating spaces for people to live their best lives.

And yet what I found is a profession largely disconnected

from the people most directly impacted by its work.

I believe this is because architecture remains

with some of the greatest needs in the world

or even the relatively simple needs of an expectant mother.

rarely interacting with real people or actual communities.

Graduates are funneled through a long, narrow

Meanwhile, the profession holds up a select few

focused almost exclusively on the aesthetics of buildings,

rather than the societal impact or contributions of them.

of professional responsibility and success

and yet this isn't why so many young, hopeful people

I believed then, though I didn't have a language for it,

and I know now, that design has a unique ability to dignify.

Now I'd like for you to just think about some of the spaces that you inhabit.

And I'd like to have you think about how they make you feel.

Now, there are places that make us feel unhappy,

And I ask, how might these places be better designed with you in mind?

and it can somehow, sometimes be very difficult to answer.

Because we are conditioned to feel like we don't have much agency

over the spaces and places that we live, work and play.

Now, here's a potentially dumb question for any women watching:

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