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Herald: Welcome to this lecture from,
I have to look up here, but it's Nika, I know.

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Nika, I hope I pronounce your name right,
it's Dubrovsky. Nika Dubrovsky was born

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in the U.S.S.R. I think it was U.S.S.R. at the time?
Yes, still. So not the Soviet Union but the U.S.S.R.

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And she moved over to New York, I understood?
And then, last six years living in Berlin.

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She's an artist.
And luckily, artists make our life better,

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and try to give certain color and feeling
to this world.

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Next to being an artist, she's engaged in
projects like this one: "Anthropology for Kids".

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And there is a project here that's going
to be related in an open-source book

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called "What is Privacy?".
I'm gonna give you the stage, I think.

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Right?

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Nika Dubrovsky: So, I'm working on this
project for a couple years already.

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And I'm very happy to be here. I'm not
an experienced speaker. So, I'm nervous.

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I'm going to describe this project,
and hopefully get some advice or

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maybe find collaborators.
So, I started to work on this because

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I bought a book about pilots to
my six-years old son who was

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learning to read. And I was hoping
it would be a dramatic book about

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??? communities
and all kinds of images and events

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But it was quite the opposite.
It was a very closed product. Sugary, and

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kitchy, and completely, like, nothing true.
So, I was thinking: "OK, actually, it's really

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great to do books for kids, but books
that will talk about what Dostoyevsky

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called '??? questions', something that
every human being has to decide

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for themselves - what is family, what
is death, what is money, for example,

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and what is privacy as well.
And then I started to do these books.

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I understand them as hacking the social
codes because, when we get our education,

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and when I saw my son getting his
education, we're presented again

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these closed products that we have
to rehearse and repeat.

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And it's very rarely
that the kids, and adults as well,

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are allowed to really take apart
the major important social ideas

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and then reconstruct them for themselves.
And I want to say that one of the

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important influences for me
was Soviet children literature in

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the 1920's that was very important also
for the beginning of construction of

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the revolutionary identity of the Soviet
people. Because that identity of

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the Soviet people didn't exist. So before
1937, Stalin's crackdown, Soviet children's

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literature was really, really progressive,
and there was a lot of qualities that,

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I think, are very important now. So the
"Anthropology for Kids" is supposed to be

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a web project. With really downloading
books. That's also a (?) wiki-edu (?),

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"Wiki Kids". This is a Ludo books (?)