Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change

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So this is a story
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of a place that I now call home.
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It's a story of public education
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and of rural communities
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and of what design might do to improve both.
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So this is Bertie County,
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North Carolina, USA.
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To give you an idea of the "where:"
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So here's North Carolina, and if we zoom in,
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Bertie County is in the eastern part of the state.
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It's about two hours east
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driving-time from Raleigh.
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And it's very flat. It's very swampy.
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It's mostly farmland.
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The entire county
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is home to just 20,000 people, and they're very sparsely distributed.
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So there's only 27 people per square mile,
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which comes down to about 10 people
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per square kilometer.
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Bertie County is kind of a prime example
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in the demise of rural America.
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We've seen this story all over the country
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and even in places beyond the American borders.
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We know the symptoms.
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It's the hollowing out of small towns.
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It's downtowns becoming ghost towns.
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The brain drain --
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where all of the most educated and qualified leave and never come back.
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It's the dependence on farm subsidies
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and under-performing schools
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and higher poverty rates in rural areas
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than in urban.
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And Bertie County is no exception to this.
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Perhaps the biggest thing it struggles with,
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like many communities similar to it,
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is that there's no
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shared, collective investment
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in the future of rural communities.
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Only 6.8 percent of all our philanthropic giving in the U.S. right now
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benefits rural communities,
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and yet 20 percent of our population lives there.
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So Bertie County is not only very rural; it's incredibly poor.
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It is the poorest county in the state.
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It has one in three of its children living in poverty,
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and it's what is referred to as a "rural ghetto."
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The economy is mostly agricultural.
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The biggest crops are cotton and tobacco,
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and we're very proud of our Bertie County peanut.
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The biggest employer is the Purdue chicken processing plant.
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The county seat is Windsor.
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This is like Times Square of Windsor that you're looking at right now.
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It's home to only 2,000 people,
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and like a lot of other small towns
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it has been hollowed out over the years.
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There are more buildings that are empty or in disrepair
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than occupied and in use.
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You can count the number of restaurants in the county
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on one hand --
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Bunn's Barbecue being my absolute favorite.
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But in the whole county there is no coffee shop,
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there's no Internet cafe,
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there's no movie theater, there's no bookstore.
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There isn't even a Walmart.
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Racially, the county
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is about 60 percent African-American,
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but what happens in the public schools
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is most of the privileged white kids
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go to the private Lawrence Academy.
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So the public school students
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are about 86 percent African-American.
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And this is a spread from the local newspaper of the recent graduating class,
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and you can see the difference is pretty stark.
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So to say that the public education system
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in Bertie County is struggling
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would be a huge understatement.
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There's basically no pool
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of qualified teachers to pull from,
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and only eight percent of the people in the county
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have a bachelor's degree or higher.
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So there isn't a big legacy
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in the pride of education.
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In fact, two years ago,
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only 27 percent of all the third- through eighth-graders
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were passing the state standard
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in both English and math.
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So it sounds like I'm painting a really bleak picture of this place,
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but I promise there is good news.
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The biggest asset, in my opinion,
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one of the biggest assets in Bertie County right now is this man:
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This is Dr. Chip Zullinger,
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fondly known as Dr. Z.
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He was brought in in October 2007
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as the new superintendent
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to basically fix this broken school system.
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And he previously was a superintendent
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in Charleston, South Carolina
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and then in Denver, Colorado.
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He started some of the country's first charter schools
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in the late '80s in the U.S.
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And he is an absolute renegade and a visionary,
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and he is the reason that I now live and work there.
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So in February of 2009,
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Dr. Zullinger invited us, Project H Design --
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which is a non-profit design firm that I founded --
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to come to Bertie and to partner with him
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on the repair of this school district
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and to bring a design perspective to the repair of the school district.
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And he invited us in particular
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because we have a very specific
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type of design process --
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one that results in appropriate design solutions
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in places that don't usually have access
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to design services or creative capital.
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Specifically, we use these six design directives,
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probably the most important being number two:
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we design with, not for --
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in that, when we're doing humanitarian-focused design,
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it's not about designing for clients anymore.
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It's about designing with people,
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and letting appropriate solutions emerge from within.
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So at the time of being invited down there,
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we were based in San Francisco,
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and so we were going back and forth
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for basically the rest of 2009,
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spending about half our time in Bertie County.
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And when I say we, I mean Project H,
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but more specifically, I mean myself and my partner, Matthew Miller,
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who's an architect and a sort of MacGyver-type builder.
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So fast-forward to today, and we now live there.
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I have strategically cut Matt's head out of this photo,
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because he would kill me if he knew I was using it
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because of the sweatsuits.
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But this is our front porch. We live there.
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We now call this place home.
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Over the course of this year that we spent flying back and forth,
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we realized we had fallen in love with the place.
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We had fallen in love with the place and the people
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and the work that we're able to do
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in a rural place like Bertie County,
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that, as designers and builders,
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you can't do everywhere.
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There's space to experiment
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and to weld and to test things.
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We have an amazing advocate in Dr. Zullinger.
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There's a nobility of real, hands-on,
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dirt-under-your-fingernails work.
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But beyond our personal reasons for wanting to be there,
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there is a huge need.
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There is a total vacuum of creative capital in Bertie County.
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There isn't a single licensed architect in the whole county.
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And so we saw an opportunity
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to bring design as this untouched tool,
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something that Bertie County didn't otherwise have,
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and to be sort of the -- to usher that in
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as a new type of tool in their tool kit.
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The initial goal became using design
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within the public education system in partnership with Dr. Zullinger --
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that was why we were there.
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But beyond that, we recognized
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that Bertie County, as a community,
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was in dire need of a fresh perspective
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of pride and connectedness
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and of the creative capital
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that they were so much lacking.
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So the goal became, yes, to apply design within education,
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but then to figure out how to make education
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a great vehicle for community development.
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So in order to do this, we've taken three different approaches
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to the intersection of design and education.
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And I should say that these are three things that we've done in Bertie County,
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but I feel pretty confident that they could work
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in a lot of other rural communities
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around the U.S. and maybe even beyond.
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So the first of the three is design for education.
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This is the most kind of direct, obvious
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intersection of the two things.
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It's the physical construction
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of improved spaces and materials and experiences
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for teachers and students.
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This is in response to the awful mobile trailers
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and the outdated textbooks
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and the terrible materials that we're building schools out of these days.
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And so this played out for us in a couple different ways.
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The first was a series of renovations of computer labs.
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So traditionally, the computer labs,
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particularly in an under-performing school like Bertie County,
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where they have to benchmark test every other week,
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the computer lab is a kill-and-drill
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testing facility.
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You come in, you face the wall, you take your test and you leave.
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So we wanted to change the way that students approach technology,
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to create a more convivial and social space
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that was more engaging, more accessible,
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and also to increase the ability for teachers
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to use these spaces for technology-based instruction.
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So this is the lab at the high school,
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and the principal there is in love with this room.
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Every time he has visitors, it's the first place that he takes them.
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And this also meant the co-creation with some teachers
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of this educational playground system
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called the learning landscape.
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It allows elementary-level students to learn core subjects
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through game play and activity
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and running around and screaming and being a kid.
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So this game that the kids are playing here --
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in this case they were learning basic multiplication
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through a game called Match Me.
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And in Match Me, you take the class, divide it into two teams,
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one team on each side of the playground,
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and the teacher will take a piece of chalk
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and just write a number on each of the tires.
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And then she'll call out a math problem --
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so let's say four times four --
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and then one student from each team has to compete
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to figure out that four times four is 16
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and find the tire with the 16 on it and sit on it.
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So the goal is to have all of your teammates sitting on the tires
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and then your team wins.
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And the impact of the learning landscape
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has been pretty surprising and amazing.
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Some of the classes and teachers have reported higher test scores,
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a greater comfort level with the material,
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especially with the boys,
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that in going outside and playing,
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they aren't afraid to take on
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a double-digit multiplication problem --
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and also that the teachers are able
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to use these as assessment tools
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to better gauge how their students
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are understanding new material.
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So with design for education, I think the most important thing
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is to have a shared ownership of the solutions with the teachers,
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so that they have the incentive and the desire to use them.
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So this is Mr. Perry. He's the assistant superintendent.
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He came out for one of our teacher-training days
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and won like five rounds of Match Me in a row and was very proud of himself.
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(Laughter)
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So the second approach is redesigning education itself.
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This is the most complex.
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It's a systems-level look
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at how education is administered
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and what is being offered and to whom.
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So in many cases this is not so much about making change
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as it is creating the conditions
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under which change is possible
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and the incentive to want to make change,
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which is easier said than done in rural communities
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and in inside-the-box education systems
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in rural communities.
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So for us, this was a graphic public campaign
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called Connect Bertie.
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There are thousands of these blue dots all over the county.
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And this was for a fund that the school district had
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to put a desktop computer and a broadband Internet connection
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in every home
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with a child in the public school system.
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Right now I should say,
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there are only 10 percent of the houses
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that actually have an in-home Internet connection.
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And the only places to get WiFi
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are in the school buildings, or at the Bojangles Fried Chicken joint,
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which I find myself squatting outside of a lot.
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Aside from, you know, getting people excited
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and wondering what the heck these blue dots were all over the place,
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it asked the school system
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to envision how it might become a catalyst
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for a more connected community.
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It asked them to reach outside of the school walls
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and to think about how they could play a role
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in the community's development.
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So the first batch of computers
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are being installed later this summer,
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and we're helping Dr. Zullinger develop some strategies
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around how we might connect the classroom and the home
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to extend learning beyond the school day.
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And then the third approach, which is what I'm most excited about,
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which is where we are now,
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is: design as education.
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So "design as education" means
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that we could actually teach design within public schools,
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and not design-based learning --
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not like "let's learn physics by building a rocket,"
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but actually learning design-thinking
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coupled with real construction and fabrication skills
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put towards a local community purpose.
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It also means that designers are no longer consultants,
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but we're teachers,
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and we are charged with growing creative capital
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within the next generation.
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And what design offers as an educational framework
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is an antidote
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to all of the boring, rigid, verbal instruction
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that so many of these school districts are plagued by.
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It's hands-on, it's in-your-face,
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it requires an active engagement,
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and it allows kids to apply all the core subject learning
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in real ways.
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So we started thinking
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about the legacy of shop class
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and how shop class -- wood and metal shop class in particular --
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historically, has been something
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intended for kids who aren't going to go to college.
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It's a vocational training path.
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It's working-class; it's blue-collar.
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The projects are things like,
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let's make a birdhouse for your mom for Christmas.
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And in recent decades, a lot of the funding for shop class
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has gone away entirely.
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So we thought, what if you could bring back shop class,
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but this time orient the projects
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around things that the community needed,
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and to infuse shop class
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with a more critical and creative-design-thinking studio process.
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So we took this kind of nebulous idea
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and have worked really closely with Dr. Zullinger for the past year
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on writing this as a one-year curriculum
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offered at the high school level to the junior class.
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And so this starts in four weeks,
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at the end of the summer,
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and my partner and I, Matthew and I,
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just went through the arduous and totally convoluted process
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of getting certified as high school teachers to actually run it.
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And this is what it looks like.
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So over the course of two semesters,
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the Fall and the Spring,
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the students spend three hours a day every single day
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in our 4,500 square foot
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studio/shop space.
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And during that time, they're doing everything
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from going out and doing ethnographic research and doing the need-finding,
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coming back into the studio,
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doing the brainstorming and design visualization
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to come up with concepts that might work,
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and then moving into the shop and actually testing them,
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building them, prototyping them,
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figuring out if they are going to work and refining that.
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And then over the summer, they're offered a summer job.
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They're paid as employees of Project H
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to be the construction crew with us
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to build these projects in the community.
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So the first project, which will be built next summer,
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is an open-air farmers' market downtown,
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followed by bus shelters for the school bus system in the second year
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and home improvements for the elderly in the third year.
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So these are real visible projects
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that hopefully the students can point to and say,
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"I built that, and I'm proud of it."
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So I want you to meet three of our students.
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This is Ryan.
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She is 15 years old.
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She loves agriculture and wants to be a high school teacher.
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She wants to go to college, but she wants to come back to Bertie County,
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because that's where her family is from, where she calls home,
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and she feels very strongly about giving back
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to this place that she's been fairly fortunate in.
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So what Studio H might offer her
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is a way to develop skills
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so that she might give back in the most meaningful way.
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This is Eric. He plays for the football team.
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He is really into dirtbike racing,
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and he wants to be an architect.
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So for him, Studio H offers him
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a way to develop the skills he will need as an architect,
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everything from drafting to wood and metal construction
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to how to do research for a client.
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And then this is Anthony.
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He is 16 years old, loves hunting and fishing and being outside
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and doing anything with his hands,
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and so for him, Studio H means
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that he can stay interested in his education
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through that hands-on engagement.
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He's interested in forestry, but he isn't sure,
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so if he ends up not going to college,
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he will have developed some industry-relevant skills.
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What design and building really offers to public education
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is a different kind of classroom.
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So this building downtown,
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which may very well become the site of our future farmers' market,
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is now the classroom.
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And going out into the community and interviewing your neighbors
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about what kind of food they buy
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and from where and why --
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that's a homework assignment.
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And the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the end of the summer
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when they have built the farmers' market and it's open to the public --
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that's the final exam.
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And for the community, what design and building offers
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is real, visible, built progress.
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It's one project per year,
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and it makes the youth the biggest asset
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and the biggest untapped resource
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in imagining a new future.
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So we recognize that Studio H, especially in its first year,
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is a small story --
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13 students, it's two teachers,
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it's one project in one place.
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But we feel like this could work in other places.
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And I really, strongly believe in the power of the small story,
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because it is so difficult
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to do humanitarian work at a global scale.
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Because, when you zoom out that far,
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you lose the ability to view people as humans.
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Ultimately, design itself is a process
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of constant education
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for the people that we work with and for
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and for us as designers.
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And let's face it, designers, we need to reinvent ourselves.
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We need to re-educate ourselves around the things that matter,
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we need to work outside of our comfort zones more,
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and we need to be better citizens in our own backyard.
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So while this is a very small story,
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we hope that it represents a step in the right direction
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for the future of rural communities
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and for the future of public education
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and hopefully also for the future of design.
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
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