Introduction

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great absolutely well welcome hillary um

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we got lots of people a lot of people pictures some don’t and i can see actually just so you know i think a couple of my colleagues

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from orlando may be signing and i see that scott jackson who’s with the one pulse foundation is signing in

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we may have a couple others um my my wonderful colleague girl crittenden who’s the chairman of the foundation may

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also sign in just to make just to keep me honest keep an eye on me make sure i don’t fumble so i did send around a bio

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but i’ll just reiterate that hilary lewis is an expert on architecture and urban

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planning who is currently the chief curator and creative director of the glass house um which is glass but that’s not why

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it’s glass but it also has some steel there’s definitely no i-beams in there that very mesian

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uh which and it’s the site of the national trust for historic preservation and the former resident of residence of

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eminent architect philip johnson she’s also on the board of the one pulse foundation

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and is talking to us about the memorial and museum being developed on that site

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absolutely exactly right so um i’m i kind of uh bridging the gap between those two so

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i put the backdrop of one pulse foundation since i’m more here on behalf of the foundation

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today than in my my day job of being involved with the the glass house

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i serve on the board of trustees for the one pulse foundation so i’ve been closely connected since 2017 which is

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when um the board was founded so i’m part of the the charter group that came on board

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tell me shauna how how much time do i have i’ve got a i’ve got all kinds of multimedia stuff to show everybody but i

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wanted to make sure i didn’t overdo it um oh forgive me i mean interrupt say it

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again i would say an hour or so oh perfect you know can go longer even we’ve got lots of time

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great just to get to everybody kind of what we’re doing i’m uh we’ll give you a quick little background

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of course on the original tragedy of uh 2016 june 12 2016 when

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um 49 uh individuals lost their lives or vlogs were taken by a a gunman um

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at the pulse nightclub and in the and since that time some extraordinary things have taken place

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in orlando and really have resonated worldwide and so that’s that’s where i’m kind of

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coming from in in the process uh there has been uh a marvelous plan

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to build a memorial a museum as something distinct from the memorial itself as well as establishing a series

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of programs from scholarships uh to also a lot of community programming um something

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called the one pulse academy um as well as uh other community outreach so there’s

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there’s a lot going on it’s not just building one space but sean if you help me on this in terms

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of what what your students may be most interested in do you want me to focus primarily on architecture and design or

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more about the process of getting a memorial built or all of the above i can cover

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um you know how the process of determining how to address

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that history or talking about you know like granada and frida’s work is so much about dealing with a difficult history

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so the process of dialogue around um you know how do you negotiate that history

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um and and how do you commemorate right in this context absolutely and it

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is it is truly a challenge i should also just mention in terms of my background um it’s now 14 years ago um i uh

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was the co-author of a book on the master planning process at ground zero so i’m very familiar also

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with what happened in the wake of 9 11 and the process of rebuilding uh in lower manhattan um

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at what had been the twin towers and now of course is the 911 uh museum and memorial so some

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similarities and some very stark differences there uh but nonetheless it’s something i’ve been thinking about for a very long time

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so maybe with that if you don’t mind can i uh do a little multimedia am i allowed to share yes you are allowed to shareable right

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now that’s awesome it should work it worked yesterday yesterday i have to just pull up the

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right thing to look at first there we go i’ve just spent the past six

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months on zoom so i should be more used to doing this at this point

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and oops it’s still not your system for some reason doesn’t let me optimize the video is that okay

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it was it was okay yesterday that’s fine yeah okay

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here we go can you see that right now yep i’m gonna just give you a little introduction to the one pulse foundation

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into our history starting off with that can you hear that pulse wasn’t just a

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nightclub yeah but we see you’re come to feel welcome we’re seeing your um who you wanted to be not the video

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you’re not seeing the video huh let’s try that again we’re seeing the uh

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what do you call it like where the folder that the files are in the folder but you’re not seeing the video okay let’s do stop share i know we

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tested this yesterday let me try one more thing before i sometimes what happens is that you have to have it

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completely teed up which i’m gonna do right now and i’m going to share again

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such a learning process and share computer sound and let’s see

OnePulse Memorial

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if that works tell me if this works pulse wasn’t just a nightclub it was a

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place where people could come to feel welcome it didn’t matter who you were who you wanted to be

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you felt loved this is what paul says now it was really important to me that

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people learned not only the story what happened to pulse at night but also what you can do differently in

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your life to change the future how we can become a better society a better human race that’s why i began the foundation

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we’re building a national memorial museum it’s part of our country’s history and it’s our responsibility to

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see to it that this story and that the 49 are never forgotten these museums and memorials aren’t built for years they’re built for centuries

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and what we’re doing is more than just a memorial museum i hope that the memorial will bring people together from all

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walks of life but i also hope that it can be a place of love

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as a family member i said i hope they turn this visit to a museum the memorial is where you go to grieve

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but the museum is where you go to learn i want people to come visit so they can’t take what happened

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here and pass it on i’m really excited about the educational opportunity

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of the museum and the wonderful things that the one paul’s foundation is working on to build a stronger global community

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my hope is that when they walk out they’ve learned not only what happened on june 12th but how to be a better human but they will be able to spread

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the message we will not let hate win they will leave equipped how to do that intra memorial now is built and it’s

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amazing the pictures that are on the barrier wall are of love and support and unity but

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mostly you’ll see a community a global community this is a magical place it’s always a rainbow

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or you’ll see a cloud look like an angel it’s peaceful people ask if they should come to the

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memorial i always recommend it it is so welcoming there are so many stories you can’t help but feel

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the impact i think everyone should see this you’ll be so happy that you did gives you a lot of

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energy of how to go forward and it’s a really beautiful cathartic experience we have over 300 people a day that visit

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and people are coming from around the world we have seen bands of children pull up to learn the story of what happened on this site

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and they’re teaching kids that there’s no difference between one another person you always should love we found it

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really important that our angels were not just a name on a wall and that’s why we developed our scholarship program we had 49 individual

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scholarships each in the name of one of our angels designated by their family members as a way to make sure that their stories

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lived on forever after visiting the memorial we want people to feel like they’re changed for

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the better that they want to get involved because the goal is really to stop pain there are just so many ways that people

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can engage with the foundation volunteering at our offices helping us through our events even just being a guide on site it’s an easy simple way

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to be part of the solution being a volunteer for the one pulse foundation it’s a life-changing experience

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come out check it out and get involved go to the one pulse foundation website right now more than anything funding is

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crucial donate to the oneplus foundation to help us build the memorial site to honor all of them to keep the memories

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going forever the story needs to be told over and over again everybody’s young man treat everybody

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equally love still wins and the message is still alive and well it’s going to change your life we will

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not let hate win we will not let hate win we will not let hate win we will not let hate win

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we will not let hit win we will not let hate win we will not let hate win love is love

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and we will not let hate win [Music]

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paul’s nightclub in orlando was not just a place where people could be free to be themselves but a place to find community and safety

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to know that the essence of pulse was shattered by a mass shooting and terrorist attack in our country remains

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just as unimaginable today as it was that night june 12 2016. the national pulse memorial and museum

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is intended to preserve the heart of pulse a place where everyone was welcomed and loved the memorial would be designed as

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a place to grieve to honor lives taken and saved as well as serve as a place to heal

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and learn the museum will serve as a community space to tell the history of safe spaces

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the tragedy of june 12 2016 and the response and support of the world

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i hope you’ll join me in supporting the one pulse foundation and help build the national pulse memorial and museum so that we never

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forget what happened to those precious lives that were taken we won’t let hate win

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that’s a good brief introduction to the tragedy and its aftermath what

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you were seeing was the what we call the intra memorial the uh

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the nightclub itself was a space i think believe about five thousand square feet

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um so not that large um sits on a small property in a kind of a fairly busy

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commercial district but not a downtown just outside of downtown it’s known as

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sodo or south of downtown in orlando and it is now becoming a

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more popular area for for new housing and other developments so

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what we’re doing um in this location is of great interest to many many people because it’s not an

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at just an outlying area it’s kind of in the heart of something that is is of great interest and it may very

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well end up as the anchor of uh really growth in that area

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we don’t think of it necessarily as a you know it’s not it’s not driven by the fact that it could be a

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catalyst catalyst to development but indeed it still has that ability to do so

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um it’s not i mean even if it was the middle of a desert we’d still be doing what we’re doing but the fact that it has the ability to

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really draw people together and to help people um come together as a community

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uh has a lot of value and so it has a the location does matter in that regard i’m going to show you

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just a quick powerpoint i don’t want to kind of make it too uh structured because i really want to talk all of you and hear what you have

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to say as well but just to give you some sense of how things have been structured since the

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tragedy again 2016 we’re only talking four and a half year not even four and a half a little over four years ago

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uh when the tragedy took place and since that time a lot has happened so with that i’m

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going to share a powerpoint i hate to even say powerpoint let’s just say slides how about that

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fullness and i’ve got to make sure that i click on share once i put the powerpoint to the front

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there we go

Background

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share um just to give you again a little bit of quick background

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um the foundation was formed only at just uh one year uh in the wake of the tragedy

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so 2016 is when the uh the shooting took place um and

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49 people um uh were lost that day but we also had

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dozens of people also were injured and many others who were there certainly

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witness things that can cause all kinds of psychic harm i mean this is something that affected

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a large large community and even those who were not there were still very much affected by it so

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there was a worldwide uh response to this again this is june 12 2016.

Response

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at the time it was the deadliest terrorist attack by a single gunman uh in history and it was and the club

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had as it’s kind of just traditionally as its focus the lgbtq community as well as the latinx

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community uh but it was a place that all were welcome so not everyone who was a victim uh was part of those

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specific communities but it certainly was a place that was friendly to all with a special emphasis

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on the lgbtq community it was very much a safe space so it’s particularly horrific to think of it as

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a a location that was targeted for this type of extreme violence and it was the the single most um

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uh uh terrorist attack beyond 911 um at that time and the largest um uh

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gun shooting at that time until it was superseded by the horrible events in las vegas

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and there was a response worldwide you can see from the eiffel tower lit up in a rainbow

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to the bridge over sydney harbor and the sydney opera house that there really was a response that

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goes well beyond uh the the locale of orlando itself

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uh and people really came together it was a a very special time unfortunately

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brought about by a horrific tragedy and it’s now you probably heard in the video many many times

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that the kind of the the motto that we use is we will not let hate win and so that really drives everything

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that the foundation is doing and the question is no what do you do once you have a tragedy i

What do you do after a tragedy

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think many other places have gone through this and in fact the leadership of the foundation has spent

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a great amount of time visiting with let’s say the folks who put together the 911 museum

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um the the families that sandy hook who are looking to build a memorial um

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shanksville pennsylvania where the flight 93 memorial is located oklahoma city uh where the oklahoma city

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memorial is so there sadly have been many instances of a need for such memorials in some cases

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it’s gun violence in some cases it was uh terrorism uh but in any case

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a place that needs to be memorialized a place for people to be to gather to remember those who are no longer with us but also

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i it’s very much part of our uh ethos is that it’s a place to learn it’s a

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place to be inspired it’s a place to think about what could what could be better in the future since we’ve gone through such a

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a difficult time in our past and i’m just going to move something around

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so i can read my slide a little bit better but it was very much a place that was well it was open to all

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and again we often use the number 49 because again it’s the 49 angels of course refers to the 49

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uh individuals uh whose lives were taken on june 12 2016.

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and there really is a a vision of making the place a sanctuary and also celebrating uh the lives

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uh who’s uh who that that that were cut short on that day and also of figuring a way

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to have a proper legacy not just by creating a place but by creating action creating things that could

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benefit the community and that’s one of the reasons that one of our efforts includes the

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creation of scholarships 49 scholarships uh in the name of each one of the angels

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this is just a listing of our board i’m i have the great honor of serving on that but it includes people from not only the

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orlando area but really nationwide uh so it’s uh it’s it’s important that there is

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a lot of interest in this and trying to do the right thing not just from the local community this

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is much requires much greater outreach and we have found through our uh media

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efforts that it is extraordinary to us that really there is worldwide interest i mean we literally

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um have seen um responses in excess of a billion hits

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on uh online uh for information that we have put forward in the past

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and of course the mission you know anyone who runs a not-for-profit will be familiar with mission and vision statements but

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our mission is to create and support a memorial that opens hearts a museum that opens minds educational

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programs that open eyes and legacy scholarships that open doors and so really there are those

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four elements the idea of a memorial for people to gather and to have that emotional connection museum

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for learning and and inspiration educational programs that that go beyond that with with

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greater education and community outreach and then of course uh the legacy scholarships and then the question is

How do you put it together

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how do you do that i mean it’s a great idea to want to do something like this but it’s a great question

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how do you put that together it’s not a simple thing to do um and to create these different

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elements is is something that now requires money it requires a structure it requires leadership we are very

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fortunate at the foundation that the owner of the nightclub barbara poma is also the founder of the foundation

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and she is very much our ceo of of the institution and has taken an extraordinary leadership role she went

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from being a businesswoman uh with a series of business interests including running the

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uh uh the pulse nightclub all to now becoming truly an international figure

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uh speaking out on how to fight hate uh and also how to to build something um

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for the greater community and so with her vision we really have um been able to do quite a lot uh since the

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tragedy of 2016. and as i mentioned just briefly there was a lot of research that went into our

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before we even decided to uh think about what could be designed on the space

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so there was a lot of research and a lot of outreach here of course an image of the memorial at 9 11. i don’t know if

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some of you have been down there yet um somebody for where i am right now would be up but from where you are it

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would be down but in new york um these extraordinary pools

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uh that uh take the place of where the twin towers originally stood the original towers of

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the world trade center and it’s a very powerful powerful space very simple but extremely uh grand in terms of scale

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and it is a it’s an awe inspiring in environment um oklahoma city

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uh of course of the terrible oklahoma city bombing that took place at the uh at the murrow building that

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took a very different approach essentially um creating chairs that represent uh again

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the lives that were taken on that fateful day

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then of course the flight 93 national memorial in shanksville pennsylvania uh which has again a different approach

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that kind of creates a physical space uh that can make you maybe have some sense

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of what it was like to to be on that plane and to land in the field um again part of the the terrible legacy

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of 9 11. the pentagon memorial again from now from 9 11

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again using a a different approach very sculptural approach and a kind of an urban uh design uh

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uh environment uh creating an outdoor space this gives you some idea that we also

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have have visited places like memphis the civil rights museum um and a variety of other locations because

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we really wanted to get a sense not only of what has been created physically but also a sense

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of how these institutions have been built again this was not um a situation where a municipality was

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doing it on its own you know sometimes you’d say well the city of new york perhaps has built things before maybe they would know what

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to do or the city of orlando but this was on private land with a private land owner who was

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determined not to let uh others determine this but to make sure that a world-class

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design would be selected and executed and also creating an appropriate foundation and and

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set of programming uh that could execute on that vision because it is an interesting question if

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you create something uh physical do you also have to have an institution with it and i think in

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in our situation we determined that most certainly that was the case

Community Survey

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um in order to establish some of these ideas there was a community survey over 2000 responses to that what was

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fascinating about that given the the horror of what had taken place was that so many

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positive words came out of that and you see these three guide guidepost words that we use um

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frequently but they came out of these surveys uh from the community love hope courage unity strength

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and acceptance which i think is a a powerful testament to the way in which the community wants

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i don’t want to say move on it’s not quite the right thing but to move in a more positive direction

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from something so horrific and i mentioned just briefly that the

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intra memorial took place so again only two years just shy of two years from the actual

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event of a june 2016 uh we opened the intra memorial it was

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felt that people needed a place to gather since it would take quite a few years to build the memorial

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to build uh the museum uh that we would put something together that would at least

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give um a gathering point what you see here if you can see my cursor that’s the original building there’s a

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major street that’s just on this side just over here there’s a little if i’m positioned right i think that’s dunkin

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donuts over there god bless them because they’ve got a bathroom and you can get a coffee there and this environment basically has an

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undulating wall around it and it’s covered with pictures not of the tragedy

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but of the positive response to the tragedy so the rallies that took place the the

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um the memorials the uh the various vigils uh that took place so positive imagery

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um that was um uh that was put together so there’s a whole series of images

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and it is uh fairly resilient it’s out in the rain it’s out in hurricanes uh

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florida has the type of environment where it’s hot and humid all the time also here you can see at the base of

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this sign which was an iconic sign for for the nightclub at the base are a

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series of panels that you can write on and so it gives people the ability if they want to leave a statement um that

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they can they can do this they don’t this doesn’t remain forever this does get cleaned off on occasion and so it constantly is renewed but it

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allows some uh participatory activity for our visitors now it it looks like it’s fairly simple

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as it was mentioned in the video approximately 300 people a day had been coming to the location which is

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quite a lot when you think about it i mean it’s a significant significant uh

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number of visitors when you didn’t have that much or uh to see and or programming but people

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want to bear witness and so it indicated to us that we would have the ability

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once we build the more um uh the more elaborate uh memorial uh the permanent

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memorial as well as the museum that we could expect to see perhaps a million visitors a year if not more

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orlando gets a lot of visitors until the pandemic obviously we’re living in a slightly

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different world right now so on average in 2018 75 million visitors to central florida

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uh if i’m not mistaken i believe that may be the number one um city for visitation it is larger than

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new york city which is extraordinary i’m a new yorker by birth so i was sort of shocked by that new york was

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only in the 60 million range of course all of that is highly reduced right now um but that

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gives you some sense of how we also had to accommodate large numbers that if you’re just build

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something that would make sense to have 50 people or 100 people it would be utterly inadequate so that

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was something that we had to think about um also in terms of educational programs and scholarships we did a series of town

Educational Programs

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hall events um the one pulse academy has been developed which is a way

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of creating essentially amity programs being able to um create programming for let’s say um

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uh various uh conventions or gatherings of people who want to learn

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about what is going on with the foundation uh this is quite an active thing and then of course the scholarship program

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so there’s a lot of outreach that goes well beyond the physicality and just to look at some milestones i

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have never in my life seen anything happen this quickly again i was involved at 9 11

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uh we took quite there was it was a lot of years um from uh from the time of uh the the

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tragedy of 2001 to the time that the uh memorial was opened about a decade and a half

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a little bit more uh here in a matter of years we’ve done quite a lot so there was the task force was

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assembled which included uh the families of the victims as well

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as um other community members uh interested parties so we made sure that there was a lot of

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input from many important constituencies the foundation was only formed in 2017 so that’s just

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three three plus years ago a major public survey which i mentioned before was done

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with over two thousand responses a series of town hall forums um

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the memorial the intro memorial opened in 2018 so two years from the time of the

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tragedy we had this new space because originally i will tell you when you have something that happens like this the fbi

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comes in and there is essentially just a fence around uh the property and it looked and

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felt like a crime scene and now it’s a much more open pleasant place to be and it makes more sense for people to

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come and bear witness um the very important funding came from orange county which is the county in

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which orlando is located um the tourism development tax known as the tdt

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uh was kind enough to grant us 10 million which was an important anchor funding for what we need to do we launched the

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design competition in the spring of 2019 uh also launched just a month

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later the scholarship campaign to raise the money so we could support the scholarships um we do a an important week of

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remembrance each june uh that happened in 2019 uh launched the academy also in 2019

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and then in the fall of 2019 we actually uh were able to um select

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the um the final design concept so we’re going to talk a bit more about that

Design Competition

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we ended up deciding that the only way to to really come up with something

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extraordinary was to open up the possibility to the entire world uh in terms of the design competition

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and we made this an open competition announced it uh worldwide and received

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if i remember correctly i believe it was about 70 completed uh com competition uh entries um

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they were quite um extensive we what was being requested was that you would come

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together not just a little sketch on an afghan but that you could produce a team that could do not only

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architecture but urban design landscape design uh museum design

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um to team up with an artist and to look at all of these um components

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together and so this was not the type of competition that let’s say a young student might have been able to

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uh compete with easily this was more for a an established um set of designers who could assemble a

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very capable team the winning um uh team

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is led by a group out of uh i was going to say paris but that’s not right but out of france

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and little france in association with another group rdai who are based in paris

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and hhcp is the associated firm in orlando uh and this is the winning team i have a

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little video from them i’m more than happy to show you that but just to give you a little sense that it was uh the idea that

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the memorial obviously is very much at the heart and we also felt that it was important to preserve

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the main building not that would be something ghoulish that could be entered i’ve been

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inside it and it’s a powerful experience because you do realize what took place there you see

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bullet holes it’s a it’s a difficult environment to be in but to at least preserve it as

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in a way what it was that it was a gathering place a safe space a place that people wanted to be

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and to protect that uh by encasing it but also making it the heart of the

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memorial itself and then building upon that the this team decided that their idea

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was that there’d be a cut through the building and this is what you see here it’s faced with granite this is the

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some preliminary ideas i’ll defer to my uh my uh uh design um

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and construction members uh committee members in terms of uh knowing exactly what the latest details on this but this

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is the uh the earliest designs for the space so you can see that original building the idea that you could cut through it

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and have light be able to permeate what you’re seeing with this color around it is a water feature um that is designed

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with 49 distinct colors to represent the 49 angels uh who were taken uh

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in 2016. so that is the basic uh heart of of the concept

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in orlando as in most of florida you definitely need some shade so there is an area here again if you

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can see my there we go my cursor has an area where you could be a bit more protected

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um it gets very hot and humid in florida florida’s not a place where you

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can um uh you can have let’s say loosely hanging things we get high winds and uh and and sadly also hurricanes but you

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get some sense of what the space would be like and just the finishes um with the names of uh of the 49

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uh along the the rim of that water feature

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additionally there is a a major component which is the museum and this design is uh

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the idea behind it was to reflect the idea of a calla lily something that would grow

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and be beautiful uh coming from the ground now this is not located just adjacent we couldn’t

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acquire property that was large enough exactly next to the memorial but instead it is

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maybe about a third of the mile down a a a roadway just from the memorial so it’s walkable

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but we’d also would provide shuttle service but what’s important about this is that it’s located right

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next to a major highway which means it will become a landmark for the city of orlando and be

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seen from far away this for the most part is an area that has low-rise um structures it actually was like

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basically a warehouse district um and so this really will be uh the anchor of really a whole redevelopment program

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for this region in orlando you can see some very creative lighting that’s the symbol for pulse

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get a sense of the interior you can imagine um how kind of light filled air filled this would be

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this uh kind of frame that’s around the building i believe much of this is open

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so that there’s you’ll have actually some fresh air that will be coming into the space as well this gives you a sense excuse me of the

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connectivity again this is the main memorial which was a smaller building but this is the memorial district as

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configured this is that road that i was suggesting and of course this will all be planted

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there is a significant landscape architecture component to all of this as well as of course the significant

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vertical structure that will contain the museum spaces by the standards of many museums it’s not

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that big if i remember correctly i think we’re looking at about 35 000 square feet but it is a has a large uh kind of

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open-air atrium uh which again will allow us to have places to gather

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uh i think much of what is desired is that people can gather together that’s what pulse was about

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it was a club that people wanted to be in and together with others and so

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the the goal is to create spaces that people can assemble in and from which they can learn

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give you some sense again of the timeline which i discussed before the again this was done fairly quickly the

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design competitions was and the rfq request for qualifications was done

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in uh march um qualifications were due just a month later uh we announced six finalists

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which included not only uh the cul de fee team but uh dillard scofidio

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uh daniel liebuskin mass design uh there were it was a highly

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respectable series of contenders all of whom supplied us with extraordinary designs

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by september we had already reviewed uh the designs by october

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we presented all six of the final designs to the public i served on the jury and i’m somewhat

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beholden not to discuss the jury’s uh discussions but i will say that the public

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uh got to see these things and we received thousands of comments both through our website as

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well as um in person these raw models were on display um uh

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at a major uh cultural center in orlando and therefore we got a lot of input

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because the desire from day one has been that this is something that we wanted

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to have connected to the the community and to find out what people really wanted

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and make sure that we were on the right track so it’s it’s always that challenge and of course the jury deliberation took

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place and just last fall um i’m awfully glad we did it then and before the craziness of the current uh

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conditions that we’re all in it would have been very hard to gather uh under uh under today’s conditions we would have done it

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but it would have been done in just a different way it the jury included not only people from

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our foundation but also the mayor of orlando the mayor of orange county

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also served on the jury um as well as a series of other significant figures for example um the

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the current dean at the school of um uh design at um graduate school of design at harvard

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uh was on the um on the jury so we had a lot of very very good input from very

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um knowledgeable people we announced to the public in the end of october and then we

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started work on the project which started uh just this year what a year to start

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doing major work my goodness well it is uh i i can’t say for sure that we can stick

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to the construction schedule as listed again i’ll defer to some other um of my uh my team on on

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whether or not we’re really looking at june 2022 my guess is we’re going to have to push that forward a bit

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but this is a very aggressive timeline um uh it is much more typical i’m sure

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if you’ve been looking at the history of memorials it usually takes decades before memorials are built i mean the

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uh memorial for the vietnam war memorial in dc uh was built in the 70s i mean my

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goodness i mean the design was done in the 70s it took him to the 80s it’s a

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it’s an extraordinary thing uh when you think about how quickly this has come together and just to give

Fundraising

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you this is obviously been prepared a little bit for for fundraising so forgive me as opposed to for an academic audience

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but we we do have we reached out to get funding from corporations um from the private sector as well as

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some funding from the public sector individual donations etc there’s local funding as well as

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national funding so we do feel that there are a lot of stakeholders and a lot of

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support uh coming from many quarters which is really important we also particularly are are very close

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with some of the local institutions ucf is the university of central florida um

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the orange county regional history center was where we um hosted our um the presentation of the

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six final designs um orange county itself city of orlando orlando health major

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hospital uh in orlando where many of the victims and um and others who were injured uh

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were treated um and then the disney institute which is a branch of the walt disney company

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it’s not cheap to do what we’re doing um so we have a capital campaign of 70 million dollars

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uh i can’t tell you precisely where we are right now but we have acquired our land uh we have uh done a good chunk of

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funding the scholarships um and we are working towards our goal

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but it is something to think about is that if you are thinking about this type of project it’s not just the aesthetics

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you have to think about how much money you have how much money you can raise and that determines what you can

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actually you know be able to do i mean there are certainly are communities where the best thing they could possibly do

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would be a much more a simpler type of project um but uh it was felt that this is something that was

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possible and it is definitely being pursued and again this is uh designed

The Survivors Walk

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obviously for a pitch in terms of talking about if you’d like to donate but that you don’t have to worry about but for those of you who are interested

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in coming to see us in orlando at obviously at a time when travel’s a little easier uh i certainly encourage

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you to come see the uh the current intra memorial um there’s ways to volunteer get

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involved and i certainly recommend looking at our website which is um which has a lot of information

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and shauna if i used up too much time can i show another short video yes yes go ahead wonderful so i’m just

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going to escape from that and let’s see i’m going to stop sharing for a second because i think that’s the only way i can do

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to show another video i’m going to pull it up i want to show you again the um one of the uh submissions

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from the kodishi team which i think will give you a better sense better than i was able to do with just those simple

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slides of again what’s being envisioned because it’s not just again two buildings it’s also the

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interconnectivity of the landscaping that will connect the museum and the memorial

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but additionally i had left this out so forgive me there’s another component known as the survivor’s walk and that’s going to be detailed when you look at

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the video which um uh which connects the memorial to uh the north which is exactly where

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orlando health trauma center is again where many of uh the victims that

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night were treated and therefore there’s an extraordinary relationship between that space and with the memorial

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and so a linear park which will be known as again the survivor’s walk and will be appropriately

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architecturally outfitted as well as landscaped so that that will be an important

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element of urban design that will connect all these elements so with that i’m going to pull up the code

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of video i think i’m okay and i’m going to share

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see if i was 20 years old i would do this really quickly shawna the fact that i’m as old as i am means i’m a little slow on it

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it’s all a learning process it is a learning process here we go

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let me know if you can there is sound so let me know you hear the audio

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[Music] okay that i think

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is probably enough for media show unless you’d like shauna for me to show some of the alternative designs i didn’t

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think there would be quite enough time to show all six of those so i wasn’t sure what you would prefer or whether we

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should maybe open it up to some discussion to talk about what it means to produce

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such things is there one um that stood out in terms of the competition to you

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i hate to say there’s just one because i think all six stood out but i’ll be more than happy to just magically choose one how’s that

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why don’t we do that let me pull up this show a different approach to uh absolutely i’m gonna just shift this

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over in one second let’s see i’m going to steal your screen again

The Final Six

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i mean certainly there were multiple approaches these were the the final six and again we received

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about 70 proposals extensive proposals uh but here you can see i mean and they

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came from again all over the world kodafi uh the team was led by uh french uh french

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design teams but nonetheless it was still an international group diller scofidio and renfro um out of new

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york but renee gonzalez architects and raymond jungles out of miami um hennigan paying architects out of

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dublin mass design groups some of you may know that name mass design did the extraordinary memorial um in

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uh in memphis um that is uh uh referred to frequently as the um the

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lynching memorial when in fact it has a much more elegant name which of equality and justice and mvrdv extraordinarily

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innovative avant-garde architects out of rotterdam and studio libby skinned um uh

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out of new york uh certainly well-known daniel liebuskin of course did the master plan for the 911 uh ground zero

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location so maybe let’s see don’t think they’re all good they’re all good

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how about we do one or two we’ll do math

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let me know if this is working

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for the victims of the pulse tragedy to honor their lives preserve their

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memory and help us all heal

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one pulse one poem here sit at my kitchen table

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we need to write this together have a sip of cafe con leche breathe in

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the steam and our courage to face this page bare as our pain curl your fingers around

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mine curled around my pen hold it like a talisman in our hands

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shaking eyes swollen but let’s not begin with tears or the

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flashing lights the sirens nor the faint voice over the cell phone when you heard i love you

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for the last time no let’s ease our way into this let our first

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lines praise the plenitude of mourning the sun exhaling light into the clouds

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let’s imagine songbirds flocked at my window hear them chirping a blessing in spanish medicine

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set the page ablaze with the anger and the hollow ache of our bones anger for the new hate same as the old

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kind of hate for the wrong skin color for the accent in a voice for the love of those who are not

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supposed to love anger for the voice of politics armed

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with lies fear that holds democracy at gunpoint

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but let’s not end here

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fine details for the love of the lives lost still alive in photos spread them

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on the table give us their wish-filled eyes glowing over birthday cakes

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their unfinished sand castles their training wheels mickey mouse ears and tiaras

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show their blemished yearbook faces silver teeth smiles and stiff prom poses

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their tasseled caps and gowns their first true loves and then share their last selfies

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let’s place each memory like a star the light of their past

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reaching us now and always reminding us to keep writing until

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we never need to write a poem like this again

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a very poetic statement to say the least

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should we do another one yeah maybe do leave a skin if i’d be happy to let’s see me just pull it up i think we’ll talk about him at

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another point in the class so it was interesting just before i turn it on just can you still see it because i

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i wasn’t you can still see that that you see a video right here yeah okay i’m just going to say that

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it’s fascinating how in some cases the designs let’s say we’re a bit more somber some were a bit more uplifting some were

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more literal and we got different reactions in different ways i think i may have neglected to mention

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that the jury itself also had um survivors as well as um family members of victims so

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we certainly again were looking at this from many different angles so i’m hearing

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just play this can you i can’t tell if it’s um showing up full screen but let’s see if do my best here

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architecture which is emotional which can connect with the human heart with the human soul

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has a healing power the assault and pulse was an assault against community means the very idea of

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love and pull by there is a perpetual and inspiring light that allows us to see the world

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something luminous another something dark we wanted to create a gateway to the new pulse district which is

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an open human figure which is not just a sculpture but also a museum which

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welcomes visitors to extend the understanding of what pulse nightclub was about the memorial which it’s about the human

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heart the topography of the site is a heart that traverses the memorial with its colorful frames

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one for each day of the year our team has approached this project to commemorate the lives of the 49

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angels but at the same time celebrate the diversity inclusiveness community

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love and hope that the one pulse foundation stands for along the

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gates you will actually have the birthdays of each one of the victims celebrated the visitors

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enters the darkness of the pulse nightclub where it is interrupted by a void i want

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to give glimpses of what happened and where it happened transforming that experience through a work of art which is jenny

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holzer’s projected quotes of what people said and across that

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the walk itself back to the downtown of orlando is the work of the survivors at the hospital to create the greater

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paul’s district on west galley we link the highway the museum the memorial to orange avenue by adding

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a line of tall palm trees in the center medium when i came to the site of where the

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museum was to be i saw an amazing figure of hope a figure that

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really stands tall and proud a figure that can be seen from great distances the first part of

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the museum takes us through why the pulse was important it brings in people’s

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own narratives and their own stories about what was important to them people who went there second part of the museum is about

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becoming ourselves about finding our own being and our own communities the third part of the museum is about

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becoming active in social causes this museum is like a crystalline

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structure through its light shines when light shines through a crystal you see the rainbow the colors the the

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fullness that the white light breaks into diversity perpetual light means an undying light a

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light that continues to inspire us that’s why the project is colorful bold unprecedented

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a light that does not fade out in time

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sony you tell me do you have time for one more sure yep difficult decisions though hey like

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they were not easy decisions i i apologize for some reason i know that on my computer i’m hearing very low volume

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i hope you guys can hear what was being said um what do you think dealer scofidio

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mvrdv hennigan pang biller scafidio i had a feeling you were going to say that

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why not why not they’re all different approaches which is really extraordinary no no one duplicated so that’s really

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fantastic make sure you can see that full screen

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that’s a trolley that they designed from the rail and vice versa

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each one of those poles is to represent one of the 49

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and they’re in color

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the artist teresita fernandez was part of this team

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you can learn about each one of the 49.

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and it’s florida it’s very much about the outdoors

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they had also proposed that instead of a museum that would actually have an archive of all the documentation

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relating to the event which is currently um stored at the historical system center um but this was something that

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they thought maybe could be part of the complex itself a very different approach

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