what's nice to people. what ideas do they have their future. t w dot com african american cities the melting. cliques culture. the problem of society we have at the moment if everyone is afraid of making a mistake what may happen if we don't do. the pandemic has changed life as we know it. but what comes next. will our fast paced lives pick up again. will we continue to innovate regardless of the cost.

live lives profit driven. and globally connected. or has this pandemic spark irrevocable change. how will we live in the future. after the pandemic. hello and welcome to detail his covert 900. 11 this week we're peeking ahead and imagining life after the cove in 1000 pandemic our guest today is richard sennett he's a british american sociologist and one of the world's most important theorists of urban studies or the architecture and social life of cities said it is currently a member of the council of urban initiatives for united nations habitat and since the beginning of the outbreak he's written about his concerns for city life amid growing pandemic restrictions. professor senate welcome to the show you describe

the city as a settlement in which strangers are likely to meet one another there hasn't been a whole lot of that lately given the pandemic as vaccines come online and more people are vaccinated are you optimistic that the city will come back. yeah indeed i think it has to come. because. in the long term we need. places where people can interact shay's to chase we need economically we need cities for the sake of. change should really ration is not an option for people to live long term social distance law. professor when we talk about cities of course we talk about the architecture of a city as one thing and we also talk about social interactions we look 1st at the architecture what could this mean for how cities are planned in terms of thing of open spaces for example elevators that are probably being avoided now more than

ever what do you see. well i think long term this argues just as climate change for much more flexible ways of building cities. to not make spaces which can only be used in one way it might be that the age of the skyscraper is over. or they were going to have to rethink public transport but it say about both the issue is is how to think about adaptable spaces not to transform these spaces in the places which are stricken by fear. in which the. in which the extremes of social isolation. to which the tattling.

are going to lead to permanently socially isolated spaces question of experiment. spacing people out in public transportation. figuring different ways to use elevators and so on it's trivial the horrible thing would be to freeze the environment talk about the social interactions that make up a city as well you mention as well that face to face interaction do you think of endemic as at least made us more aware of our our social connections the social capital that we have in their life. you knew a man and a life spent. but kind of a kind of human experience that would be. you know this is the nurse it's what it when i'm saying you know the danger in this is that you know actualize the extreme. to zoom or even working from home in isolation full

time as a norm can't do that it's a very sunni very. evocative. where we are today of what happens in new york 20 years ago you have to was hit by 911 almost immediately well the planet because in new york were rewritten as though every week another airplane would fly to new york skyscraper didn't happen but it decade the city was paralyzed and building these fortress like structures that's what we have to boyd. that kind of paralysis and yet at the same time there is a real danger as we know from the virus so how do we find the right way of measuring the importance of our social lives with the real devastation that the virus can cause well.

this is just my. but there it's there we really have that letter virus was going to radically transform our lives look that way year ago now that seems there are very few. drugs that. could treat people who are sick no or to very different place. and i hope you in germany soon will be in their places as well. where people who are vaccinated have a big weapon to use against. medicines which are coming on stream military even if you fall sick you're not doomed to die and so we're we need to change your consciousness. you know we have to take on board that this narrative has changed

what we think of when we use the term the virus is not a death sentence against very. redolent of the aids crisis in new york and 980 when in the beginning of it people thought this was our megadeath. gradually you know it became a chronic disease but many of the current practices that people were recommending in the 1980 s. to deal with aids. were the notion that anybody who was touched by it was going to die and that became very very counterproductive in the long term and it's sort of odd that i'm saying this to you know a very old 100 people supposed to be mustard risk. from this virus but it just seems to me that i think being paralyzed with fear

is a horrible way to live and now that we don't need to be. paralyzed with fear we've got to move on mentally and and and think about ways to. to live with it. rather than feel overwhelmed by. in britain i don't know how this is and germany but in britain you sell newspapers or social media. flaming the sense of fear the very very afraid it's overwhelming. that's good for journalism but it's not good for human beings. so i really see this is a moment where you got to think is going to be over for you i think it's i hope it will be over. it could i say one more thing about this for you. because threaded

to. race in europe is that. during the last year of the crisis could lead to the breakup of the european union it would be a terrible long term. where nations think that you know the because the union largely failed failed you that it should be abandoned for really essential things go back to the nation state. that would be a terrible way to as it were naturalized is state of emergency present future free of. it you know so i just think it's very important to look forward rather than learning lessons from about how dangerous this crisis is. out there for now richard thank you so much for joining us ok thank you. and now it's time

for your questions over to our science correspondent there. what impact has the pandemic had on the public perception of science this is the perfect question to start off this week's look at visions of the post coded world because one of the things the pandemic has done is radically change the way that many of you out there in the public view science and scientists some have turned into really famous figures who are no really well known not just in their home countries but all over the world germany also of course gained a few new science of leverage these in 2020 the most prominent of the viral a just in chief christiane dalston millions of germans tune in for his regular pandemic

podcasts he's even been turned into a traditional christmas ornament so one way covert 19 has certainly changed public perception of science is by dragging researchers and science experts out of the shadows they mostly worked and up until now and arresting them and their fields to center stage i mean i'm sure there are lots of kids here in germany now saying i want to grow up to be the next christian to boston and if you ask me that's a great thing. derek williams there and around the world christians are celebrating easter one of the most important festivals on the christian calendar we'll leave you now with a look at how the faithful celebrated during the global pandemic thanks for watching stay safe and we'll see you soon again.

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a 1st for hollywood actors of color swept the top prizes at the screen actors guild awards best female lead to want to viola davis for her role as 19 twenties jazz singer model reigning in moranis black adapted from the play by august wilson. the little viola davis raised black box thank you all get bullied been a legacy act is a color that we can relish for the rest of while i think the best male lead went to the weight chadwick boseman for his performance in the same film as an ambitious trumpeter exploited by white record producers. like you could i got tell oh. my dad had no doubt was going to turn out like this he wouldn't name again oh those men's final performance came out after he died last year of cancer his widow taylor simone led word accepted the

award on his behalf a month after she accepted his golden globe if you are world unbalanced the year crusader that ever we on this. it's a cool. thank you screen. now the sag awards are seen as a predictor for the oscars and if bozeman and davis repeat their victories there it will be the 1st time in almost 20 years that 2 black performers take the best actor and best actress oscars the 1st and last time that happened by the way was with denzel washington and halle berry back in 2002 well award season is all about recognizing the final products from the performance is over and the reviews are in but what about the moments before a performance british photographer simon a nun's portrays actors before they go on stage in london are they nervous

terrified or something else entirely his new book time to act features candid shots of anon has been taking backstage for decades and. the last half hour before the curtain goes up it's a magical shimmering time and in between phase one every actor engages in their own personal rituals to shake off the outside world and draw the energy they need to go on stage. the 30 minutes they have to be in the building and they have this dramatic tension between the 2 images of themselves and the fictional character they have and as the closer they get going on the stage the more they have to absolve themselves of by the fictional character simon anand has been taking photographs in london's theatres for 40 years both in front of and behind the stage he's gained access to everyone's dressing room joseph finds jude law

glenn close he captures moments in which the actors appear to almost duplicate themselves it's hard to say whether that's still cate blanchett gazing out at you but the character she's. i personally think that kate is one of the best examples of allowing the camera to see. vulnerability in that she allows the camera to see her emotions but at the end it isn't interested in glimpsing his subject souls or in capturing some sort of truth he wants to make an iconic image whether incidentally or created by the connection between camera and actor. i would never i never put myself into a position where it's i'm not trying to be

a fly on the wall. this is not what this book is about is no attempt they know i'm in the room they want to be seen through my eyes fine. and says the important thing is to be open with no set expectations but he does prepare carefully reading up ahead of time on his subjects. when ethan hawke came to the london stage the word was that he was a surprisingly good shakespearean actor. it reaffirmed my sense that american actors a very different from english actors well they bring to the stage the stage you know this sense of energy this certain pumped up energy yeah so. i hesitate to use this word visceral because i'm not sure that really means but i think that's what it what i'm trying to do you know it's sort of. just before taking a stage an actor's transformation is complete and the play can begin the photo book

time to act is an impressively sensitive declaration of love for the theatre and its actors a portion of the sales will go to those unable to work during the pandemic shut down still simon and isn't worried about the future of theatre. there are more theaters in london than anywhere in the world even creating new york where those buildings are not going you know that they will be there. for people to make fear to in this book is a reminder of just what is waiting in the wings. to music now and the work of german sente guitarist reinhardt as a child he was inspired by another scented guitarist with the same last name the legendary django reinhardt who's possibly also a distant cousin reinhardt combines django so-called gypsy jazz with styles including flamenco latin and brazilian popular music for his latest album teamed up

with bret belorussian classical guitarist on sky yeah it's called gypsy it meets classic piece of soul. reinhardt is a virtue also on the guitar born in the western german city of copeland's he's from a well known german family of musicians in non pandemic times he spends about half the year on the road performing and searching for new musical collaborators and influences like here in morocco. he's also visited india tracing the roots of his sinti and roma cultural heritage reinhardt is a kind of musical nomad. and i

go everywhere and try to get to know different cultures and music i watch how they play and try to imitate it so what i do is pretty nomadic. his latest cd is. collaboration with sky and her classical concert guitar musician from belive roots has guest appearances worldwide and the 2 nomads create breathtaking music together. here's a question for you what would the world look like if it were entirely drawn by children and the answer is somewhere between hilarious and terrifying we know this because of the work of one british father tom curtis who takes little kids drawings

and uses them as a guide to improve on real photos the results of become an internet sensation we met up with curtis and his sons. these animals are one of a kind. of horse with no neck a cat with human teeth. and a cow with claws. these are what children's drawings would look like if they came to life. british designer tom curtis came up with the idea of a world in which children's imaginative images become reality. the 1st drawing we actually brought to life was a portrait that my son had done of me and i kind of knew it was going to be pretty grotesque and of course the process is actually quite long so i could see it developing into this hideous picture so his the his the drawing and then the actual real version looks like that and i think becky sort my wife she probably

thought she'd married the wrong person. curtis began his project things i have drawn in 2015 when his children were younger their drawings of animals. cars and people inspired. with the help of digital technology he transformed them into surprising pictures. i think. special about the project. to be creative and i think this. computer pool but what does it get. the ideas for his children's drawings often came from excursions his family took around their home villages northwest of london curtis and his wife encourage their children to express themselves creatively.

helps motivate them. really who. we didn't know. very surprised. began as a family project went global within a couple of years after it was just friends who sent their children. he would create. then he started posting before and after pictures on instagram today tom curtis receives around $100.00 drawings a month from children all over the world. their creations. it takes 15 hours to transform a drawing. and creative director of

a media agency he edits the pictures and is. drawn is now. so for example i've got this here from the original photograph and i'm going to bring it on to the picture here put it into place zoom in so we can see the detail and make sure it fits nicely and then we can even move it around a little bit so a photo of the rabbit becomes a fantastical creature from a child's imagination. the designers sons are now reaching the age where they're too old to contribute drawings themselves but thanks city artworks he receives from around the world tom curtis will continue to bring children's fantasies to life.

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