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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Right?

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

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

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

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

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

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

??? communities
and all kinds of images and events

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

these closed products that we have
to rehearse and repeat.

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

are allowed to really take apart
the major important social ideas

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

important influences for me
was Soviet children literature in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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