So when I decided to create an art piece in Manshiyat Naser, 当我决定在曼斯亚特·纳赛尔创建一个艺术品 the neighborhood of the Cairo garbage collectors in Egypt, 在埃及开罗附近的垃圾收集处 I never thought this project would be the mos
I think I never drink as much tea as I did in Egypt. 我感觉我从来没喝过这么多的茶 And to be honest with you, we could have finished earlier, 老实说，我们其实可以提前竣工 but I think it took us three weeks because of all those te
At the beginning of the project, I numbered all those buildings on my sketch, 项目初期，我在我的设计稿上给所有的这些建筑编了号 and there was no real interaction with the community. 但这些并没有真正的与社区产生互动 People didn't get the poin
The Zaraeeb, that's how they call themselves, which means the pig breeders, 照片上的这个人所代表的是自称“Zaraeeb”的一个群体，意思是猪的饲养者 have been collecting the garbage of Cairo and sorting it in their own neighborhood for
In every work that I create, I write messages with my style of Arabic calligraphy. 在我创作的每一样作品中，我都用阿拉伯的书法风格写要旨 I make sure those messages are relevant to the place where I am painting 我确保这些信息与作画的地区有关联
And there was my father, standing with me outside, admiring a day's work, 而我的父亲和我一起站在外面，欣赏着一天的工作， hair on his head, fully in remission, when he turned to me and he said, "You know, Michael, this house
Our two teams have worked together over the last year to design this memorial. 我们两个团队去年在一起工作并设计了这个纪念馆。 The memorial will take us on a journey 这个纪念馆会带领我们走上一个旅途， through a classical, almost familiar bui
When we think about how it should be built, we were reminded of Ubudehe, the building process we learned about in Rwanda. 当我们思考着如何建造的时候，我们想起了Ubudehe，从卢旺达学到的建筑方式。 We wondered if we could fill those ver
We worked with Bruce Nizeye, a brilliant engineer, 我们跟Bruce Nizeye一起工作，他是一个非常了不起的工程师， and he thought about construction differently than I had been taught in school. 对于建筑，他对我从学校学来的那一套有不同的看法。 When we h
"Where are the architects?" Paul said. “建筑师在哪儿呢？”Paul说道。 If hospitals are making people sicker, 如果一个医院令人们生病， where are the architects and designers to help us build and design hospitals that allow us
Or Malawi: we asked if a birthing center could radically reduce maternal and infant mortality. 或者在Malawi: 我们会问是否接生中心会从根本上减少母婴的死亡率。 Malawi has one of the highest rates of maternal and infant death in t
Every weekend for as long as I can remember, my father would get up on a Saturday, 在我能够记住的每个周末，我的父亲在周六起床后， put on a worn sweatshirt and he'd scrape away at the squeaky old wheel of a house that we liv
Using the lo-fab way of building, even aesthetic decisions can be designed to impact people's lives. 利用“当地奇迹”的办法来建造楼房，即使审美决定的设计也能对人们的生活产生影响。 In Butaro, we chose to use a local volcanic stone found in
And even in Poughkeepsie, my hometown, we thought about old industrial infrastructure. 即使在我的家乡Poughkeepsie，我们想到古老的工业基础设施。 We wondered: Could we use arts and culture and design to revitalize this city
Countries like Germany and South Africa and, of course, Rwanda, 像德国和南非，当然还有卢旺达， have found it necessary to build memorials to reflect on the atrocities of their past, in order to heal their national p
