Where joy hides and how to find it | Ingrid Fetell Lee

Prevodilac: Tijana Mihajlović Lektor: Ivana Krivokuća

It's 2008,

Godina je 2008.

and I'm just finishing my first year of design school.

i ja završavam prvu godinu dizajnerske škole.

And I'm at my first year-end review,

I ocenjuju moj rad na kraju prve godine,

which is a form of ritual torture for design students,

što je vrsta ritualnog mučenja za studente dizajna,

where they make you take everything you made over the course of the year

pri čemu vas nateraju da uzmete sve što ste uradili tokom godine,

and lay it out on a table

da to položite na sto

and stand next to it while a bunch of professors,

i da stojite pored toga dok gomila profesora,

most of whom you've never seen before,

od kojih većinu nikada ranije niste videli,

give you their unfiltered opinions of it.

deli svoje utiske o njima bez prethodnog promišljanja.

So it's my turn and I'm standing next to my table,

Dolazim na red i stojim pored svog stola,

everything neatly lined up,

a sve je uredno poređano u liniju,

and I'm just hoping that my professors can see

i samo se nadam da moji profesori mogu da uvide

how much effort I've put into making my designs practical

koliko sam truda uložila u to da moji radovi budu praktični,

and ergonomic and sustainable.

prilagodljivi i održivi.

And I'm starting to get really nervous,

I počinjem da osećam nervozu

because for a long time, no one says anything.

jer dugo niko ne progovara.

It's just completely silent.

Jednostavno vlada potpuna tišina.

And then one of the professors starts to speak, and he says,

A onda jedan od profesora počinje da govori i kaže:

"Your work gives me a feeling of joy."

„Tvoj rad u meni izaziva radost.“

Joy?

Radost?

I wanted to be a designer because I wanted to solve real problems.

Želela sam da budem dizajner da bih rešavala prave probleme.

Joy is nice, I guess, but it's kind of light --

Radost je lepa, pretpostavljam, ali je nekako nevažna -

not substantial.

ne od suštinskog značaja.

But I was also kind of intrigued,

Ali, bila sam i nekako zaintrigirana,

because joy is this intangible feeling,

jer je radost neopipljiv osećaj,

and how does that come from the stuff on the table next to me?

i kako to izazivaju stvari na stolu pored mene?

I asked the professors,

Pitala sam profesore:

"How do things make us feel joy?

"Kako stvari izazivaju radost u nama?

How do tangible things make us feel intangible joy?"

Kako opipljive stvari izazivaju neopipljivu radost u nama?"

They hemmed and hawed and gestured a lot with their hands.

Ukali su i hukali i puno mahali rukama.

"They just do," they said.

„Jednostavno je tako“, rekoše.

I packed up my things for the summer,

Spakovala sam svoje stvari tog leta,

but I couldn't stop thinking about this question ...

ali nisam mogla da prestanem da mislim o ovom pitanju...

and this launched a journey --

a ovo je pokrenulo putovanje -

one that I didn't know at the time would take me 10 years --

putovanje za koje u to vreme nisam znala da će trajati 10 godina -

to understand the relationship between the physical world

da bih razumela odnos između fizičkog sveta

and the mysterious, quixotic emotion we call "joy."

i misteriozne, idealističke emocije koju nazivamo radošću.

And what I discovered is that not only are they linked,

I otkrila sam ne samo da postoji veza između njih,

but that the physical world can be a powerful resource to us

već i da nam fizički svet može biti ogroman resurs

in creating happier, healthier lives.

za stvaranje srećnijih, zdravijih života.

After my review,

Nakon pregleda mojih radova,

I thought, "I know what joy feels like,

mislila sam: „Poznajem osećaj radosti,

but what is it, exactly?"

ali šta je to tačno?“

And I found that even scientists don't always agree,

A otkrila sam da se čak ni naučnici ne slažu uvek,

and they sometimes use the words "joy" and "happiness" and "positivity"

a nekada koriste reči „radost“, „sreća“ i „pozitivnost“

more or less interchangeably.

manje-više kao sinonime.

But broadly speaking, when psychologists use the word joy,

A uopšteno govoreći, kada psiholozi koriste reč „radost“,

what they mean is an intense, momentary experience

misle na intenzivno, trenutno iskustvo

of positive emotion --

pozitivne emocije -

one that makes us smile and laugh and feel like we want to jump up and down.

emocije koja nas tera da se smešimo i smejemo

i osećamo kao da želimo da skačemo gore-dole.

And this is actually a technical thing.

A ovo je zapravo tehnička stvar.

Taj osećaj želje da se skače gore-dole

That feeling of wanting to jump up and down

je jedan od načina na koje naučnici mere radost.

is one of the ways that scientists measure joy.

It's different than happiness,

Razlikuje se od sreće,

which measures how good we feel over time.

koja meri koliko se dobro osećamo tokom nekog perioda.

Joy is about feeling good in the moment,

Radost je vezana za trenutni dobar osećaj,

right now.

upravo sada.

And this was interesting to me

A ovo mi je bilo interesantno

because as a culture, we are obsessed with the pursuit of happiness,

jer smo, kao kultura, opsednuti traganjem za srećom,

and yet in the process, we kind of overlook joy.

a ipak, u tom procesu nekako zaboravimo na radost.

So this got me thinking:

Tako me je ovo pokrenulo da razmišljam o tome

Where does joy come from?

odakle radost potiče.

I started asking everyone I knew,

Počela sam to pitam sve poznanike,

and even people I just met on the street,

čak i ljude koje sam upravo upoznala na ulici,

about the things that brought them joy.

o stvarima koje su im donosile radost.

On the subway, in a café, on an airplane,

U metrou, kafiću, avionu,

it was, "Hi, nice to meet you. What brings you joy?"

ličilo bi na: „Zdravo, drago mi je da smo se upoznali.

Šta vam donosi radost?“

I felt like a detective.

Osećala sam se kao detektiv.

I was like, "When did you last see it?

Pitala sam: „Kada ste je poslednji put videli?

Who were you with? What color was it?

Sa kim ste bili? Koje je boje bila?

Did anyone else see it?"

Da li ju je još neko video?“

I was the Nancy Drew of joy.

Bila sam Nensi Dru koja istražuje radost.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And after a few months of this, I noticed that there were certain things

I nakon nekoliko meseci ovoga, primetila sam da postoje određene stvari

that started to come up again and again and again.

koje su se iznova i iznova pojavljivale.

They were things like cherry blossoms

Bile su to stvari kao trešnja u cvatu

and bubbles ...

i balončići...

swimming pools and tree houses ...

bazeni i kućice na drvetu...

hot air balloons and googly eyes --

vazduhoplovni baloni i mrdajuće oči -

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

and ice cream cones, especially the ones with the sprinkles.

sladoledi u kornetu, posebno oni sa mrvicama.

These things seemed to cut across lines of age and gender and ethnicity.

Delovalo je kao da ove stvari ne uzimaju u obzir

godine, rod ili etničku pripadnost.

I mean, if you think about it,

Mislim, ako razmislite o tome,

we all stop and turn our heads to the sky

svi zastanemo i okrenemo glave ka nebu

when the multicolored arc of a rainbow streaks across it.

kada se šaren luk duge pojavi na njemu.

And fireworks --

A vatrometi -

we don't even need to know what they're for,

ne znamo ni zbog čega ih neko priređuje,

and we feel like we're celebrating, too.

ali osećamo da i mi slavimo.

These things aren't joyful for just a few people;

Ovim se stvarima ne raduje samo nekoliko ljudi;

they're joyful for nearly everyone.

raduju im se skoro svi.

They're universally joyful.

One univerzalno donose radost.

And seeing them all together,

A kada sam ih videla sve na jednom mestu,

it gave me this indescribably hopeful feeling.

to mi je donelo neopisivo osećanje nade.

The sharply divided, politically polarized world we live in

Duboko podeljen, politički polarizovan svet u kome živimo

sometimes has the effect of making our differences feel so vast

ponekad ima za posledicu da naše razlike postanu toliko velike

as to be insurmountable.

i nepremostive.

And yet underneath it all,

A ipak, ispod svega toga,

there's a part of each of us that finds joy in the same things.

u svakom od nas postoji deo koji pronalazi radost u istim stvarima.

And though we're often told that these are just passing pleasures,

Iako nam često govore da su ovo samo prolazna zadovoljstva,

in fact, they're really important,

zapravo su veoma važna,

because they remind us of the shared humanity we find

jer nas podsećaju da delimo čovečnost koju pronalazimo

in our common experience of the physical world.

u zajedničkom doživljaju fizičkog sveta.

But I still needed to know:

Ali, i dalje mi je bilo potrebno da znam

What is it about these things that makes them so joyful?

šta je to vezano za ove stvari što nam donosi toliko radosti?

I had pictures of them up on my studio wall,

Imala sam njihove slike na zidu mog ateljea,

and every day, I would come in and try to make sense of it.

i svakog dana sam ulazila u njega i pokušavala da pronađem smisao toga.

And then one day, something just clicked.

A jednog dana je nešto samo kliknulo.

I saw all these patterns:

Videla sam sve ove šare:

round things ...

okrugle stvari...

pops of bright color ...

eksplozije jarkih boja...

symmetrical shapes ...

simetrični oblici...

a sense of abundance and multiplicity ...

osećaj izobilja i raznovrsnosti...

a feeling of lightness or elevation.

osećaj lakoće ili uzvišenosti.

When I saw it this way,

Kada sam to videla na ovaj način,

I realized that though the feeling of joy is mysterious and elusive,

shvatila sam da, iako je osećaj radosti misteriozan i neuhvatljiv,

we can access it through tangible, physical attributes,

možemo da mu priđemo kroz opipljive, fizičke atribute

or what designers call aesthetics,

ili kroz ono što dizajneri nazivaju estetikom,

a word that comes from the same root as the Greek word "aísthomai,"

što je reč koja ima istu osnovu kao i grčka reč „aísthomai“,

which means, "I feel," "I sense," "I perceive."

što znači „osećam“, „doživljavam“, „opažam“.

And since these patterns were telling me that joy begins with the senses,

A pošto su mi ovi obrasci govorili da radost počinje čulima,

I began calling them "Aesthetics of Joy";

počela sam da ih nazivam „estetika radosti“;

the sensations of joy.

osećaji radosti.

And in the wake of this discovery,

U svetlu ovog otkrića,

primetila sam nešto - da sam, dok sam šetala okolo,

I noticed something that as I walked around,

I began spotting little moments of joy everywhere I went --

počela da primećujem male trenutke radosti gde god da sam išla:

a vintage yellow car

žutog oldtajmera

or a clever piece of street art.

ili vispreno delo ulične umetnosti.

It was like I had a pair of rose-colored glasses,

Bilo je kao da sam nosila par naočara sa ružičastim staklima,

and now that I knew what to look for,

i sada, kada sam znala šta tražim,

I was seeing it everywhere.

primećivala sam to svuda.

It was like these little moments of joy were hidden in plain sight.

Kao da su se ovi mali trenuci radosti skrivali na očiglednom mestu.

And at the same time,

A u isto vreme

I had another realization,

sam još nešto shvatila -

that if these are the things that bring us joy,

da, ako nam ove stvari donose radost,

then why does so much of the world look like this?

zašto onda veliki deo sveta izgleda ovako?

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Why do we go to work here?

Zašto idemo da radimo ovde?

Why do we send our kids to schools that look like this?

Zašto šaljemo decu u škole koje ovako izgledaju?

Why do our cities look like this?

Zašto nam gradovi izgledaju ovako?

And this is most acute for the places that house the people

A ovo najviše važi za mesta koji pružaju smeštaj ljudima

that are most vulnerable among us:

koji su najugroženiji među nama:

nursing homes,

starački domovi,

hospitals,

bolnice,

homeless shelters,

skloništa za beskućnike,

housing projects.

stambeni projekti.

How did we end up in a world that looks like this?

Kako smo se obreli u svetu koji ovako izgleda?

We all start out joyful,

Svima nam je početak radostan,

but as we get older,

ali dok starimo,

being colorful or exuberant opens us up to judgment.

ako smo šaroliki ili veseli, podložniji smo osuđivanju.

Adults who exhibit genuine joy are often dismissed as childish

Odrasle osobe koje pokazuju iskrenu radost se često otpisuju kao detinjaste,

or too feminine

ili previše ženstvene,

or unserious

ili neozbiljne,

or self-indulgent,

ili samoudovoljavajuće,

and so we hold ourselves back from joy,

te se suzdržavamo od radosti

and we end up in a world that looks like this.

i onda se nađemo u svetu koji ovako izgleda.

But if the aesthetics of joy can be used

Ali, ako se estetika radosti može koristiti

to help us find more joy in the world around us,

da nam pomogne da pronađemo više radosti u svetu oko nas,

then couldn't they also be used to create more joy?

zar se onda ne može koristiti da stvori više radosti?

I spent that last two years scouring the planet,

Provela sam dve prošle godine u prevrtanju zemlje i neba,

looking for different ways that people have answered this question.

tražeći razne načine na koje su ljudi odgovarali na ova pitanja.

And this led me to the work of the artist Arakawa

A ovo me je dovelo do rada umetnika Arakave

and the poet Madeline Gins,

i do pesnikinje Medlin Gins,

who believed that these kinds of environments are literally killing us.

koji su verovali da nas ovakva okruženja bukvalno ubijaju.

And so they set out the create an apartment building

Tako su započeli stvaranje stambene zgrade

that they believed would reverse aging.

za koju su verovali da podmlađuje ljude.

And this is it.

A ovo je ta zgrada.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

It's a real place, just outside Tokyo.

Ovo mesto zaista postoji, nadomak Tokija.

I spent a night there, and it's a lot.

Prespavala sam tamo i vrlo je intenzivno.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

The floors undulate,

Podovi se talasaju,

so you don't end up walking around

pa baš i ne hodate okolo,

so much as kind of bouncing around the apartment,

već više kao da skakućete po stanu,

and there are bright colors in every direction.

a puno je jarkih boja gde god da se okrenete.

I'm not sure I left any younger,

Nisam sigurna da sam izašla podmlađena,

but it's as if, by trying to create an apartment

ali kao da su, pokušavajući da naprave stan

that would make us feel youthful,

koji će uticati na to da se osećamo mlado,

they ended up creating one that was joyful.

zapravo na kraju stvorili mesto koje je veselo.

And yes, this is a bit much for everyday life,

I da, ovo je previše za svakodnevni život,

but it made me wonder: What about the rest of us?

ali me je nateralo da se zapitam šta je sa nama ostalima.

How do we bring these ideas back into the real world?

Kako da ove ideje vratimo u stvarni svet?

So I started finding people who were doing just that.

Tako sam počela da pronalazim ljude koji su upravo to radili.

For example, this hospital, designed by the Danish artist Poul Gernes.

Na primer, ovu bolnicu koju je projektovao danski umetnik, Pul Žern.

Or these schools,

Ili ove škole,

transformed by the non-profit Publicolor.

koje je transformisala neprofitna organizacija Pablikolor.

What's interesting is that Publicolor has heard from school administrators

Interesantno je da je Pablikolor dobio izveštaje od školske uprave,

who say that attendance improves,

a oni kažu da ima manje izostanaka,

graffiti disappears

da grafiti nestaju

and kids actually say they feel safer in these painted schools.

i da se deca zapravo osećaju bezbednije u ovim prefarbanim školama.

And this aligns with research conducted in four countries,

A ovo se slaže sa istraživanjima sprovedenim u četiri države,

which shows that people working in more colorful offices

koja pokazuju da su ljudi koji rade u raznobojnijim kancelarijama

are actually more alert,

zapravo budniji,

more confident

sigurniji

and friendlier than those working in drab spaces.

i prijateljskije nastrojeniji od onih u jednoličnim prostorima.

Why would this be the case?

Zašto se ovo dešava?

Well, as I started to trace back our love of color,

Pa, kada sam počela da izučavam istoriju naše ljubavi prema bojama,

I found that some researchers see a connection to our evolution.

otkrila sam da neki istraživači vide vezu sa našom evolucijom.

Color, in a very primal way, is a sign of life, a sign of energy.

Boja, na prvobitni način, je znak života, znak energije.

And the same is true of abundance.

Isto važi i za obilje.

We evolved in a world where scarcity is dangerous,

Razvili smo se u svetu u kom je nedostatak nečega opasnost,

and abundance meant survival.

a obilje je značilo opstanak.

So, one confetto --

Tako, jedna konfeta -

which happens to be the singular of confetti,

što je inače jednina od mnogo konfeta,

in case you were wondering --

u slučaju da vas zanima -

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

isn't very joyful,

ne donosi puno radosti,

but multiply it,

ali ako je umnožite,

and you have a handful of one of the most joyful substances

dobijete pregršt jedne od najveselijih supstanci

on the planet.

na celoj planeti.

The architect Emmanuelle Moureaux uses this idea in her work a lot.

Arhitekta Emanuela Moro puno koristi ovu ideju u svom radu.

This is a nursing home she designed,

Ovo je starački dom koji je projektovala,

where she uses these multicolored spheres to create a feeling of abundance.

u kom koristi ove šarolike sfere da bi stvorila osećaj obilja.

And what about all those round things I noticed?

A šta je sa svim onim okruglim stvarima koje sam primetila?

Well, it turns out neuroscientists have studied this, too.

Pa, ispostavilo se da su neuronaučnici takođe ovo proučavali.

They put people into fMRI machines,

Stavili su ljude u uređaje magnetne rezonance

and they showed them pictures of angular objects and round ones.

i pokazali im slike oštrih i oblih predmeta.

And what they found is that the amygdala,

I otkrili su da je amigdala,

a part of the brain associated in part with fear and anxiety,

deo mozga koji se delimično vezuje za strah i uznemirenost,

lit up when people looked at angular objects,

reagovala dok su ljudi gledali u oštre predmete,

but not when they looked at the round ones.

ali ne i kada su gledali u oble.

They speculate that because angles in nature

Nagađaju, pošto se oštre ivice u prirodi

are often associated with objects that might be dangerous to us,

često vezuju za predmete koji mogu biti opasni po nas,

that we evolved an unconscious sense of caution around these shapes,

da smo razvili nesvestan osećaj opreza kada smo u blizini ovih predmeta,

whereas curves set us at ease.

dok nas obli predmeti smiruju.

You can see this in action in the new Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Možete ovo videti na delu u novoj osnovnoj školi Sendi Huk.

After the mass shooting there in 2012,

Posle masovne pucnjave u njoj 2012. godine,

the architects Svigals + Partners

arhitekte Svigals i partneri

knew that they needed to create a building that was secure,

znali su da je trebalo da stvore zgradu koja je bezbedna,

but they wanted to create one that was joyful,

ali su želeli da stvore i zgradu koja je vesela,

and so they filled it with curves.

te su je ispunili krivudavim linijama.

There are waves running along the side of the building,

Postoje valovi koji se prostiru dužinom cele škole,

and these squiggly canopies over the entryway,

kao i ove krivudave nadstrešnice nad ulazom,

and the whole building bends toward the entrance

a cela zgrada se naginje ka ulazu

in a welcoming gesture.

u znaku dobrodošlice.

Each moment of joy is small,

Svaki trenutak radosti je kratak,

but over time, they add up to more than the sum of their parts.

ali, vremenom, njihov iznos je više od pukog zbira delova.

And so maybe instead of chasing after happiness,

Zato možda, umesto jurnjave za srećom,

what we should be doing is embracing joy

treba da prigrlimo radost

and finding ways to put ourselves in the path of it more often.

i da nađemo načine da je srećemo češće.

Deep within us,

Duboko u nama,

we all have this impulse to seek out joy in our surroundings.

svi imamo nagon da tražimo radost u svojoj okolini.

And we have it for a reason.

A on postoji s razlogom.

Joy isn't some superfluous extra.

Radost nije suvišna, dodatna stvar.

It's directly connected to our fundamental instinct for survival.

Direktno je vezana za naš osnovni instinkt za opstanak.

On the most basic level,

Na najosnovnijem nivou,

the drive toward joy is the drive toward life.

poriv za radošću je poriv za životom.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

Thank you,

Hvala vam,

thank you.

hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)