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Failure, in San Francisco
This presentation was presented by Bob Berkebile at
San Francisco #33.
It was uploaded on 15th December 2009.
It has been viewed 4067 times.
Recorded at the Autodesk Gallery
How could a man witness the fatal failure of a bridge in the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which killed 114 people - designed by his own firm become one of founders of the US Green Building Council and have a profound impact on how our buildings impact the entire planet?
The theme for this PechaKucha was "FAILURE". In April 2009, this was a theme everyone was confronting in one way or another. Bob Berkebile came to this event fully aware of how failures some his own, others he merely witnessed have the potential to shape lives - for the better. During the course of his 20 slides, he expressed in a very uniquely personal way the mindset and imagination necessary to see failures as the opportunities for insight that they can be.
How could a man witness the fatal failure of a bridge in the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which killed 114 people - designed by his own firm become one of founders of the US Green Building Council and have a profound impact on how our buildings impact the entire planet?
The theme for this PechaKucha was "FAILURE". In April 2009, this was a theme everyone was confronting in one way or another. Bob Berkebile came to this event fully aware of how failures some his own, others he merely witnessed have the potential to shape lives - for the better. During the course of his 20 slides, he expressed in a very uniquely personal way the mindset and imagination necessary to see failures as the opportunities for insight that they can be.
pkn is the democratic form of the ted conference. It brings the best ideas out into the public. pkn is "by design" set up to multiply, proliferate, inspire, in short, change the planet long term more than any other current idea. It brings us back together, out of our air-conditioned isolation, alone with our fancy smart phone, back into the community where change can happen
Chris Stutzki
Bob Berkebile is my hero...what he has done rather quitely has been nothing short of a miracle.
Despite the fact that we have never met, he has had the most profound effect on my sustainability practice than any one other than my first mentor;
Harry Porter. I met Bucky Fuller at his last book-signing at Harvard Square, years ago and I could've sworn that he really looked like the picture above!
In that book, he pointed out the word for "Crisis" in Chinese is composed of two characters;
Danger & Opportunity.
He stated that with the planet in danger by man-made problems, we had the opportunity to solve them for all of its inhabitants. That was almost 30 years ago. Danger seem more emminant and the opportunities burning into thin air.