TED Talk? ? ? Architecture that's built to heal? ? ? Speaker: Michael Murphy? ?第四課

About a year ago, I read an article about a tireless and intrepid civilrights leader named Bryan Stevenson.

And Bryan had a bold architectural vision.?

He and his team had beendocumenting the over 4,000 lynchings of African-Americans that have happened inthe American South.?

And they had a plan to mark every county where these lynchings occurred, and build a national memorial to the victims of lynching in Montgomery, Alabama.

Countries like Germany and South Africa and, of course, Rwanda, have foundit necessary to build memorials to reflect on the atrocities of their past, in order to heal their national psyche.?

We have yet to do this in the United States.

So I sent a cold email to info@equaljusticeintiative.org: "Dear Bryan," it said, "I think your building project is maybe the mostimportant project we could do in America and could change the way we think about racial injustice. By any chance, do you know who will design it?"

Surprisingly, shockingly, Bryan got right back to me, and invited me down to meet with his team and talk to them.?

Needless to say, I canceled all mymeetings and I jumped on a plane to Montgomery, Alabama.?

When I got there, Bryan and his team picked me up, and we walked around the city.?

And they took the time to point out the many markers that have been placed all over the city to the history of the Confederacy, and the very few that mark the history of slavery.

And then he walked me to a hill. It overlooked the whole city.?

He pointed out the river and the train tracks where the largest domestic slave-trading port in America had once prospered.?

And then to the Capitol rotunda, where George Wallace had stood on its steps and proclaimed, "Segregationforever."?

And then to the very hill below us.?

He said, "Here we will build a new memorial that will change the identity of this city and of this nation."

【選擇】-What did Bryan do after Murphy landed?? ? -He took Murphy around the city and showed him its history of racism.

【選擇】-Why is it significant that the US hasn't built a national memorial for lynching victims?? ? -It hasn't done enoug to face its past.

【選擇】A memorial is...a structure built to preserve the memory of someting.

Our two teams have worked together over the last year to design this memorial.?

The memorial will take us on a journey through a classical, almost familiar building type, like the Parthenon or the colonnade at the Vatican.?

Butas we enter, the ground drops below us and our perception shifts, where werealize that these columns evoke the lynchings, which happened in the public square.?

And as we continue, we begin to understand the vast number of those whohave yet to be put to rest.?

Their names will be engraved on the markers thathang above us.?

And just outside will be a field of identical columns.?

But theseare temporary columns, waiting in purgatory, to be placed in the very counties where these lynchings occurred.?

Over the next few years, this site will bear witness, as each of these markers is claimed and visibly placed in thosecounties.?

Our nation will begin to heal from over a century of silence.

When we think about how it should be built, we were reminded of Ubudehe, the building process we learned about in Rwanda.

We wondered if we could fillthose very columns with the soil from the sites of where these killingsoccurred.?

Bryan and his team have begun collecting that soil and preserving it in individual jars with family members, community leaders and descendants.?

The act of collecting soil itself has led to a type of spiritual healing.? 【跟讀】

It's an act of restorative justice.

As one EJI team member noted in the collection of the soil from where WillMcBride was lynched, "If Will McBride left one drop of sweat, one drop ofblood, one hair follicle——I pray that I dug it up, and that his whole bodywould be at peace."

We plan to break ground on this memorial later this year, and it will be a place to finally speak of the unspeakable acts that have scarred this nation.

When my father told me that day that this house ——our house —— had saved his life, what I didn't know was that he was referring to a much deeper relationship between architecture and ourselves.?

Buildings are not simply expressive sculptures.?

They make visible our personal and our collective aspirations as a society.?

Great architecture can give us hope.?

Great architecture can heal.

Thank you very much.

【選擇】-What did the columns in the memoral represent?? ? ?-They represent the victims of lynching.??-紀(jì)念碑里的柱子代表什么?? ? -他們代表私刑的受害者。

【選擇】-How victims from other areas be represented in the memorial?? ?-Their columns will be removed over time and placed in their respective countries.

【選擇】-How does architecture heal communities?? ? -It encourages people to cooperate to achieve a common goal.

【選擇】-An asporation is... a desire.

【選擇】Someone's perception is their...? ? point of view.

【填空】Buildings are not simply expressive sculptures.?They make visible our personal and our collective aspirations as a society. Great architecture can give us hope. Great architecture can heal.

【跟讀】Bryan got right back to me, and invited me down to meet with his team and talk to them.