The Global Lives Project: A Platform for Building Empathy & Connection
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Summary:
Subtitle
featuring founder and Executive Director, David Harris
Teaser
How can a multimedia project build empathy and connect the experiences of humanity around the globe?
Parent Event
Berkman Klein Luncheon Series
Event Date
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 12:00 pm Harvard Law School campus Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A (Room 2019, Second Floor) RSVP required to attend in person Event will be live webcast on this page at 12:00 pm
The Global Lives Project presents 24-hour-long videos of daily lives of individuals from around the world both online and through in-person exhibits. This 15-year project is an online and real-world collaboration between thousands of filmmakers, photographers, translators and everyday people from around the world.
The project's latest exhibit, Lives in Transit, showcases unedited footage of the daily lives of transportation workers from around the world, including Vietnam, Nepal, Turkey, China, India, South Korea, Colombia, Spain and Canada. The exhibit premiered at Lincoln Center for the New York Film Festival, and previously showed at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the CITRIS Tech Museum, and will show later this year at the Smithsonian.
Lives in Transit is currently on display at the Harvard Science Center through March 2018.
David Evan Harris, Global Lives Project Founder, will speak about the evolution of the project, and its ambitious goal of connecting the diverse experiences of humanity around the globe, and building empathy.
About David
David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project, Chancellor’s Public Scholar at UC Berkeley, and Research Director at the Institute for the Future. David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection of art, activism and academic inquiry on the politically charged questions surrounding globalization and social justice. David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV; and penned articles and shot photos for the BBC, the Guardian, Adbusters, Focus on the Global South, AlterNet, and Grist. He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, United Nations University, Apple, Google, Adobe, and numerous other venues around the world. He speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French. David founded the Global Lives Project in 2004 and holds a BA in the political economy of development and environment, with a minor in forest science, from UC Berkeley and an MS in sociology from the University of São Paulo.
Exhibition & Reception
The Global Lives Project: Lives in Transit is a large-scale video installation featuring 24 hours in the daily lives of individuals who move people and things around the world.
The exhibit is on display at the Harvard Science Center through March 2018.
A small reception will be held on Tuesday, February 27 from 5:30-6:30pm in the Harvard Science Center lobby.
LInks
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UC Berkley News, "Global film project elevates the ordinary"