Through the Lens of Fourth World Theory: Olon Dotson at TEDxIndianapolis
Olon Dotson serves as an Associate Professor at Ball State University's College of Architecture and Planning (CAP). He received a B.A. in Architectural Science from Tuskegee Institute and a Bachelor of Architecture and Science in Environmental Design from Ball State University. Subsequent to working with HNTB Architects in Phoenix, Arizona, he attended Columbia University in New York where he completed the Master of Science in Real Estate Development Program.
Upon returning to Indianapolis, Dotson was inspired to broaden his perspective which led to the co-founding of his company, ARMONICS, Inc., in 1994 with architect Russell Lewis. The firm's principal focus was in the revitalization of inner-city communities, first in Indianapolis, with Hawthorne Place, Concord Village, Eagle Creek Village and the Master Plan for the King Park Homeownership Zone (HOZ) which became known as Fall Creek Place. ARMONICS earned national and international recognition for its progressive and innovative approach to urban revitalization initiatives and guided strategies in cities throughout the United States. While working in Muncie, Dotson began to teach at CAP.
Throughout his career in academia as well as in professional practice, Dotson's primary research interest and focus has been in the resurgence of severely distressed inner-city communities. Despite the success stories, awards, articles, accolades for authoring grant applications, securing funding, and directing the implementation of numerous revitalization initiatives it became increasingly apparent to Dotson, that the net result has had minimal impact on the seemingly multitudinous needs of American inner-cities. Thus, he has chosen to become more philosophical and reflective with respect to the health and vitality of American cities and has elected to pursue a Ph.D. in American Studies at the Purdue University, College of Liberal Arts. His primary interests in the offerings at Purdue are to conduct an exploration of the institutional abandonment of America's inner-cities, investigate the causes which have led to the massive disinvestment, attempt to enhance a sense of empathy for the citizens who choose or are forced to remain in these environments, and develop formal inquiry which will enhance understanding as a design professional and scholar.
Dotson has dedicated his life and career to improving the conditions of inner-cities by effectively developing, exploring, and communicating Fourth World theory to a wider audience through lectures and publications. It is his sincere belief that a formal declaration of the Fourth World condition will generate dialogue that may contribute to positive change for the physical and social structure of the United States of America.
Big Idea: Through the Lens of Fourth World Theory
Is the United States in jeopardy of self-induced, ultimate, and eminent collapse under the weight of its own history? Design Learning places Sustainability at the forefront of discourse as part of a larger global imperative; however, the value of 'Green' is inconsequential when continued sprawling development practices are dictated by historic discrimination, segregation patterns, and chronic societal ills. By sharing and weaving his personal experiences with place-specific historical and critical geography, as well as Funk music, Olon Dotson examines the quality of life in the American inner-city through the lens of Fourth World Theory.
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This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
Elvis Summers crowdfunded $100,000 to build dozens of tiny homes. City officials looking to pass a $2 billion housing plan tried to shut him down.
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Each night, tens of thousands of people sleep in tent cities crowding the palm-lined boulevards of Los Angeles, far more than any other city in the nation. The homeless population in the entertainment capital of the world has hit new record highs in each of the past few years.
But a 39-year-old struggling musician from South LA thought he had a creative fix. Elvis Summers, who went through stretches of homelessness himself in his 20s, raised over $100,000 through crowdfunding campaigns last spring. With the help of professional contractors and others in the community who sign up to volunteer through his nonprofit, Starting Human, he has built dozens of solar-powered, tiny houses to shelter the homeless since.
Summers says that the houses are meant to be a temporary solution that, unlike a tent, provides the secure foundation residents need to improve their lives. The tiny houses provide immediate shelter, he explains. People can lock their stuff up and know that when they come back from their drug treatment program or court or finding a job all day, their stuff is where they left it.
Each house features a solar power system, a steel-reinforced door, a camping toilet, a smoke detector, and even window alarms. The tiny structures cost Summers roughly $1,200 apiece to build.
LA city officials, however, had a different plan to address the crisis. A decade after the city's first 10-year plan to end homelessness withered in 2006, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced in February a $1.87 billion proposal to get all LA residents off the streets, once and for all. He and the City Council aim to build 10,000 units of permanent housing with supportive services over the next decade. In the interim, they are shifting funds away from temporary and emergency shelters.
Councilmember Curren Price, who represents the district where Summers's tiny houses were located, does not believe they are beneficial either to the community or to the homeless people housed in them. I don't really want to call them houses. They're really just boxes, says Price. They're not safe, and they impose real hazards for neighbors in the community.
Most of Summers's tiny houses are on private land that has been donated to the project. A handful had replaced the tents that have proliferated on freeway overpasses in the city. Summers put them there until he could secure a private lot to create a tiny house village similar to those that already exist in Portland, Seattle, Austin, and elsewhere. My whole issue and cause is that something needs to be done right now, Summers emphasizes.
But the houses, nestled among dour tent shantytowns, became brightly colored targets early this year for frustrated residents who want the homeless out of their backyards. Councilmember Price was bombarded by complaints from angry constituents.
In February, the City Council responded by amending a sweeps ordinance to allow the tiny houses to be seized without prior notice. On the morning of the ninth, just as the mayor and council gathered at City Hall to announce their new plan to end homelessness, police and garbage trucks descended on the tiny homes, towing three of them to a Bureau of Sanitation lot for disposal. Summers managed to move eight of the threatened houses into storage before they were confiscated, but their residents were left back on the sidewalk.
If the city won't devote any resources to supporting novel solutions, Summers urges officials at least to make it easier for private organizations and individuals like him to pave the way forward. The city owns thousands of vacant lots, many of which have been abandoned for decades, that could provide sites for tiny house villages or other innovative housing concepts that can have an immediate impact.
Everything that they have been doing doesn't work. It's just years of circles and bureaucratic holds and wait times, says Summers. 10, 20, 30, 40 years—where's all the housing?
Produced by Justin Monticello. Shot by Alex Manning and Zach Weissmueller. Additional footage courtesy of Elvis Summers. Music by Silent Partner, Riot, Kevin MacLeod, Audionautix, Battle of Wood, Topher Mohr and Alex Elena, The 126ers, and Elettroliti.
President Obama in conversation with Yara Shahidi and Obama Foundation Program Participants
Young people have always been at the forefront of change for our nation—from the Freedom Riders to the Farm Workers’ Movement to Black Lives Matter. This legacy is carried on by the Foundation’s program participants who are leading the change they hope to see, together with their communities. President Obama sits down for a conversation with several young leaders from around the world, moderated by a vocal advocate in her own right, Yara Shahidi. Together they’ll discuss leadership, grassroots change, and the power places have to shape our journeys.
Muncie High School Consolidation: Larry Riley interview, 2014-12-12
Interview with Larry Riley, Instructor in the Department of English at Ball State University and columnist for The Star Press.
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This is a tour of the prison Bill Cosby was sent to on September 25, 2018. Lt. Walter Grunder, part of the transition team, gives a tour of Pennsylvania's newest state prison, the $400 million State Correctional Institution Phoenix, in Skippack Township, Montgomery County. SCI Phoenix will replace SCI Graterford by summer 2018 and will house around 3,500 inmates. (Video by Dan Gleiter/PennLive)
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At 5.6 million square feet, Minnesota's Mall of America is easily the largest mall in the U.S. It's so big that it even has its own zip code and generates nearly $2 billion in economic activity for the entire state of Minnesota every year. Take a look inside the largest mall in America.
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The Weekly Special - Episode 1004 - Summer Countdown
It's not too late to make summer memories! Travel back in time with a new Memory Chain! Explore wearable art like you've never seen with a new Expressions! Discover Indiana's home-grown hops farm! Plus, Megan Maudlin joins us in the studio for some folk rock tunes!
From Normal to Extraordinary: Ball State’s First Century
The student-produced documentary covers Ball State University’s history since it was founded in 1918 in Muncie, Indiana. Set to a faculty-composed musical score performed by the Ball State Symphony Orchestra, the film details the University’s early days as a teachers college and its evolution into a world-class institution with highly respected programs in education, architecture, business, communications, fine arts, sciences and humanities, and the health professions. Interviews include past Ball State presidents, faculty members, government leaders, and alumnus David Letterman.
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Muncie High School Consolidation: Robert Warrner interview, 2014-11-10
Interview with Robert Andy Warrner, member of the Muncie Community Schools Board of Trustees.
The Muncie High School Consolidation Oral History Project collection provides access to twenty-five oral history interviews with school board members, civic leaders, and community members about the consolidation of Muncie Southside High School and Muncie Central High School in 2014. The oral histories were conducted by Ball State University’s Center for Middletown Studies between September 2014 and June 2015 with funding provided by The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County.
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Fueling a Region: Indiana's Gas Boom
A WIPB Program Initiative program, produced by Ball State University students, features the Indiana gas boom and the beginnings of industrial Indiana.
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Why Latinos Are Converting to Islam
Latinos are one of the fastest growing groups within Islam in America. VICE's Lee Adams travels to Houston Texas, the home of America's first Islam in Spanish center, to investigate what’s behind this phenomenon and how America’s current political climate might be related.
As a former gang leader, Jaime Mujahid Fletcher claims that Islam saved his life, inspiring him to found the Islam in Spanish center. He dedicated himself to translating Muslim texts for a Spanish-speaking audience.
We spoke to Jaime and other recent Latino Muslim converts to find out why two of America’s most discriminated groups are coming together.
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Indiana Weekend - Episode 26 - RV Rebound
With the approach of spring and another travel season, Indiana’s RV business is booming – so strong there’s a shortage not of sales, but of people. Elkhart County, which makes 80 percent of the RVs on the road, can’t fill all its open jobs. How an eight-year economic boom is changing one of Indiana’s most prosperous communities.
The Nightmare World of Gang Stalking
More than 10,000 people worldwide claim they're the victims of a vast organized surveillance effort designed to ruin their lives, a phenomenon known as gang stalking. Mental health experts see gang stalking as a symptom of paranoia, but the self-identified victims who insist what they're experiencing is real have come together online and in support groups to share their stories.
VICE met up with a handful of Americans who claim their lives have been derailed by gang stalking to understand what serious consequences the phenomenon presents. Then we hear from Dr. Josh Bazell, one of many physicians who believes the victims of gang stalking are experiencing dangerous delusions that could be treated by mental health professionals.
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This is Not My Home | The Lady Lifers | TEDxMuncyStatePrison
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. A life sentence in Pennsylvania means exactly that. These women, all of whom have served decades in prison, sing of the very real possibility of dying alone in prison.
The Lady Lifers, including Brenda Watkins, lead vocals, Dannielle Hadley, Debra Lee Brown, Theresa Battles, Diane Metzger, Thelma Nichols, Joann Butler, Lena Brown and Trina Garnett. Words by Howard Woodring, music by Naomi Blount.
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House Impeachment Inquiry Hearing - Hill & Holmes Testimony
Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council senior director for Europe and Russia, and David Holmes, counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine testify at a House Intelligence Committee impeachment hearing.
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Ford Oval of Honor: John Mann interview
Ford Oval of Honor interview with John Mann, a Vietnam War veteran who served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army (1st Infantry Division).
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Set in a renovated building with a glassed-ceiling lobby, Courtyard is located 2 blocks from New Orleans Convention Center.
It features a heated outdoor pool, a hot tub and a well-equipped gym.
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