A. Young broken innocence long time ago i worked in a secondhand bookstore not so far from here a student but sometimes i would work late at night and it was 2nd hand bookstore and the train would already leave so they would allow me to sleep in the bookstore and there was one space of a little bit smaller than this phase which exactly fit that the one person metrics in that space was the russian literature space pushkin goal chicle novel called the ask so i would fall asleep being surrounded by these great masters and you know i really feel sort of influenced my dreams at that time but its still there yeah so is there a big dreamers oh yeah exactly its almost there in my brain as well and that was for these years as a reader did you know you there or are we just. Looking at. Where you are here. It was russian that your find it yes no youre there yeah yeah i like gogol i like the city stories like the crazy ones or the yeah but its sort of the world is brutal but its also poetic and theyre sort of its sort of brutal poetry and they have they have a tough life but they find their own beauty it is something that would sort of explain your style into words but portray at the snow i think with what looks triggered me in the stories is the notion of the journey and to explore and trying to find your own way in reality and the one and we have this very confusing right now is i dont think we have rising sea level air pollution traffic jam viruses in china so how can we make sense of the world again how can we add meaning to the world and maybe thats why i create and to to be saying and in order to improve so im going to go through. You know many of your projects and to give the viewers sure idea what is it that you do exactly so for instance to smoke a tower which is literally like a tower at that sort of takes in air pollution and release the cleaner air yeah i mean its a great thing and from crack of to beijing and theyre like big hit do you think that it could be something that you could put up in every corner in every city of course and why why arent they doing it then well because we live in a world were to pollute this for free. So what is the price of clean air and youre right i think the importance of clean air is getting more and more attention. Kids have asked mind big cities or people live shorter lives allergies elegy yeah yeah and you feel the pressure of the polluted air so i became inspired by small by pollution and i really wanted to show the beauty of clean air and by making these clean air parks which are 20 to 70 percent more clean than the rest of the city you create a sort of an oasis where people can see the future could feel the future and indeed to trigger the question why is it up. Everywhere and thats exactly the meaning of the project so so youre getting the essence of the bird exam that is exactly the case if you want to further and youre doing this thing called the smoke free bikes for young put it device on the bicycle stair so are they making any difference because thats all i want to know because i want to have kids in the future and im thinking and i want to bring them to you know a way where old where i know they will survive the towers and for public spaces which for everyone and at the same time the bike sharing is becoming very popular in asia so we do develop a sort of device on the Steering Wheel which sucks up polluted air cleans it and releases it so you can cycle and not be polluted. A lot of people d you know want a car because of the pollution but of course more cars more pollution so we want to celebrate bicycles and we want to promote it and also give it some kind of lifestyle and some kind of coolness and some kind of meeting thats also as important as the text or you know and then you have conceptual stuff like water leaked and what is that basically that you sort of use lights to flood the public space and youre saying well this is what its going to be like if they see the level of razor and its an amazing idea the sort of like a virtual flood revelation of leds and lenses which shows how high water level would be in the future. We all know climate is changing we all know our world is changed at the same time is very abstract and people are one of the greenies and its a bit confusing the numbers that you see so by making it very physical and by making a collective experience that we had 5060000 people one night you know look at it you activate people to not be scared of the future but curious so we do suppose. Can we generate energy from the changing d in time we build floating cities so i think the role of the art that i make is to x. Of a people and that they are more feeling more connected to the future and being part of the solution instead of being sad or angry or waiting so i guess like every time someone like you tries to. You know sort of raised the awareness that people question is do you only attract attention of what you said 15000. 00 people watching it or do you actually does that whatever it is that you do actually spread them to act well thats the reason why i make it on a bipartisan activator and sometimes theres sort of a practical solution like small tree thats like a local solution very practical and sometimes its more about you know opening up the minds of the people its about showing the beauty or to wonder i think it really depends on the conversation im having you know the questions im being asked the thing that inspires me at the moment. The weird thing about the future is the future is not to a 5 percent less worse its something you know what we dont know. And so we 1st have to imagine the future in order to get there you know and they dont feel like feature is something rigid you think its like fluid and whatever it is yeah youre imagining what we have to created 1st in our brain and then once you can imagine it you can you know constructed engineer a prototype and make it happen and if it is like 100 percent depending on our thought and sort of the usual lazing and realizing gore is like a 5050 faith and whatever it is that you do what is it that you that its a good question i dont know but on 4th for for sure i know we 1st have to imagine it otherwise we dont get there so this whole folder flow thing. Isnt b. S. We know its always on working there isnt working anymore its crashing no sort of law is our question regarding Climate Change definitely yeah and we dont have a solution and you know im a professor at universities and my students are mad you know because they need to spend so much time and love and energy to fixing the plastic in the ocean the air pollution so theyre the kind of creates that can only correct and thats not a good. Age to be in you know a good area to be in so lets talk about 20 or technical things more if youre saying yeah ok this whole our deal with Climate Change is not why but how great so what i guess is theyre going to do im so tired of the why we are like why should Everybody Knows the why forget about the why we know we have to be sustainable so there are some people who still disagree but you know theyll figure it out so its about the how how do we make it happen and how do we make a world with better for me how do you help the rephrase that question with what it is that you do well youre using on a g. To Bring Solutions i use arent and these are into showed a beauty of the new world that people accept it more evenly and im trying to make the connection which before never existed what do you mean you can well for example the spaceways lap its a project im working on very tentatively now with. The space agencies theres more than 8100000 people off space junk floating around our universe. Tell our viewers what it is thats basically what lake green needs laser is and we started launching satellites rockets from 1903 a sport make apolo chinese russian american lot of countries and they started to collide so you have more than 8100000. 00 q of junk floating around the universe and because they have high speed 27. 00 i was getting meters per hour when they hit an existing satellites like ball so its a threat to our day to day communication and nobody really knows how to fix it so we launch spaceways lap. Visualize real time were to space junkies with light green light radios yeah its green labor barking and he had it right in israel i guess right there space 2 is to fix it so we finally have an official mission now to develop a sort of small cube set alight with a net like it like a fish or capture fish its more complicated a laser might relax it how can you fit more than we grab its ok capture it and but then the 2nd phase is ok then once we have it there but what should we do with it that maybe its not a problem but we cant really show where do you get rid of it i mean what you put the earth instead of the atmosphere was there with it. Through exercise so if you have a net you have space junk capture something thats floating or and then you have the earths atmosphere so when in a controlled way with a little d you know engine you can it hits the earths atmosphere in a controlled reentry what happens then it pollutes you know what has a home yeah it burns burns ok so and what happens when something burns it gets a question like this light light ok so thats what were working on now waste is lights so were creating artificial shooting stars ok as a replacement for traditional fireworks. So we can ignore the universe and we have a new way of fireworks so were going to government do by spending 8200000. 00 u. S. Dollars on fireworks every year now d and 7070000000. 00 its going to be restoring more and where those little dreamer is those are were they were going to the minister ministers as they think that budget that you are already spending and you spend it on this a zeros got a project to clean up the universe and you have a new way for work what do they say the ministers when you they said they didnt say no yet so really good there so i think in 3 to 5 years we will have that realized and so am i smarter than a czar nada no. Because theyre really smart but what i can do as a designer as an artist is to look at it in a different way and say its not waste its shooting stars i design the last 2 percent and that changes the project completely and so on and you know there is disney there cities there so you make new connections between space industry and tourism cities etc thats the stuff that were doing here and thats the stuff that we do excites me so what made you all of a sudden swaps which switch from like Climate Change and smog to taking care of the waste in your wall i want to live in a world where were pollution does not d exist you know and i think its weird that we accept pollution air pollution Water Pollution space pollution and especially space you know thats our new frontier we should learn from the sort of mistakes that we may complain of and everybody has a right for clean space and you think its should be something that this sort of human in case were to overpopulate so it yeah of everything to it or you know its unacceptable so i was walking that were now in the studios we have a team of project managers designers engineers architects and i was Walking Around as we were working a lot of a project and i saw this huge black image with a lot of white dots in this big delta the middle and i asked whats that you know it looked like the sort of abstract american painting this Jackson Pollock thing and they said that space junk in the 8100000. 00 people like what thats crazy and so thats typically a project we initiated i spend my own money and time on it and now the clients are coming into vesting so its going to be fascinating you know but crazy but get down we got to take a short break right now when were back well continue talking to don droz the hard about the future stay with us. 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And were back with innovative thinker artist designer bongo the harder here in his studio don what do you say to all those like skeptics that are like you know there is no Climate Change you know its always been there this is a cycle you guys just dont remember yeah this is all b. S. And this is to scare people off ok. Then i dont know how to weather is on their planet because all my planet its very concrete you know people are scared of change and thats very normal and people have to get used to do ideas thats also very normal but i think we shouldnt hide or be scared who should be curious. And invest in new ideas to survive in the end its about that and its not just that its necessary its also fun and. Theres sort of a joy in making radical ideas happen and theyre sort of a joy in having people look at reality in a different way and open up their minds and it can be via a book or a movie but it can also be about public art and design so design is not just a chair or a lamp or table but these ideas about improving life and its and its really fun to work on that as well but i feel like youre so different from every of their modern art artists or instill later that i met because theyre so much about selfexpression and the commentary these are that if i am the syringes and yeah it was you know like i was now lenny in my teddy bear. I had a teddy bear yeah i cried when i was great no im not so interested so it is definitely about me in my mind my feelings of course what i want to talk as much about the week the world as about to me my personal relationship with that i think i mean you know when you do something that gives Something Back to the people to society it somehow is way more rewarding. Than if i just do it for myself i just dont think its that and i dont think im that interesting that you know everything that is that youre doing right now which is like really looking forward. Into the future and shaping kate for the best rate is this something that happened with the past like 5 slash 10 years when we started talking about Climate Change ok yeah i think its definitely something of this age like maybe 20 years ago you would be about me and my teddy bear you know if you would by homer and would be really cool i dont know as brave you guys but if you buy our Armored Vehicle and i have been very harmer no blood there are so yes its very interesting are these are our notion of what is beauty or what is luxury or what is what is what is normal has changed and sustainability is in that not just that word but its about that we are aware that you we are us we are connected and if i do something stupid to you in a way it will influence me as well as in the more you understand the relationship we are where we like it or not but its you know were all crew and passengers are not specified or like were all part of it whether we like it or not and the more your aware of the relationship the more you can interact and play i think thats a thats thats thats thats life thats thats it i think internet the doll that i because i was talking to this great lady shes very huge an Artificial Intelligence and were saying that everything thats going on right now especially with internet it really reminds us of when they invented the atomic bomb only you know when it blew out the it only blew up in a certain place but yes something were to blow up now its everywhere we dont understand is that its going to go bad everywhere yes or we have a we read relationship with technology i think. Right now today you mean all of us we weve become sort of robots food were feeding our hopes our dreams our desires our money to computer screens and what do we get back you know like thats thats a bad deal so when this technology jumping out of the street when its that knowledge you helping me to keep me healthier to keep me informed or to keep me you know feeling connected. And i missed it so we will live in an area the post screen area where we will look less at all the screens and it will be more in harmony or it will help us more but there is no youve got them here but im really tired of you know feeding machines yeah im just robot food because like everyone i speak to right now theyre pretty much convinced that this is an irreversible thing where were going to become house robots and then eventually going to be robots and then Artificial Intelligence is the future i mean i dont really believe in the whole scary krauss single laramie period thing but i do feel like there is something that is beyond my control in terms of what will happen to me as a human being and isnt there with its a good comment so i think. Theres a George Orwell scenario were dominated but theres also a layer of the vinci scenario where we used to fly and i was thinking about it this morning i was at t. W. A. Terminal in new york. Airport this is beautiful terminal building 107172 and it was build in the time when people were curious about the future you know we would go to the mood we had to jet since the concorde people were curious about the future you can feel that in that building and as we are today that somehow were sort of scared of the future and the robots take over our jobs or will dominate us like you just said or to chinese come and buy everything or and i think our hope and i think that the project that we do here that i do help people to become curious against towards the future not to carry a will because no one and that they are part of it you know its not just like oh its the rowboats and that is that the world we want to live in no so yes what youre saying is absolutely scenario but its just one of the scenarios and we are going to be a part of that we are part of that conversation but. You know is this something that worries me so much like you know i suppose like curiosities or something that is going away from us right now and youre trying to sort of in your own way reinstall it people but also have. If you like the hope and if you should because youre absolutely right before people were like no matter how bad things were like its going to be better tomorrow and now you may will we dont know whats going to happen so were looking at future like do i want to be there i mean i dont know how do you