Rehabbing Old Houses into Affordable Housing Trudi Sandmeier 0:00Today on Save As… Isabel Thornton 0:01It’s the whole effect of that in a neighborhood when you have a blighted or vacant home and a home that has just not seen…
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Allensworth: The Past and Future of a Black Agrarian Utopia Trudi Sandmeier 00:00Today on Save As: Nina Weithorn 00:02Something that’s really important to them is kind of honoring this history of Black agrarianism and resilience and leveraging resources within a community and…
Season 3, Episode 10
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[Encore] After the War: Using Heritage to Rebuild
In case you missed it, we are re-releasing an episode from our first season.
The decade-long civil war in Syria has decimated the country’s infrastructure, killed more than 400,000 Syrians, and created the world’s largest displaced population of around 13 million. Heritage sites play a big role in war as targets of destruction and are typically an early focus of rebuilding efforts.
With an optimistic take on a devastating situation, alumna Dalia Mokayed talks about the effects of war on heritage and identity, and how heritage conservation can help cities and communities rebuild. The Aleppo native specifically addresses the Old City of Aleppo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the case study in her thesis, Heritage Conservation to Rebuild Cities After Crisis.
After the War: Using Heritage to Rebuild Trudi Sandmeier 00:00 Hello Save As listeners, Trudi Sandmeier Here. This week we’re bringing you an encore episode from our first season. It’s called After the War: Using Heritage to Rebuild in which…
Legacy Businesses in Immigrant Neighborhoods Trudi Sandmeier 00:00Today on Save As … Xiaoling Fang 00:02These small places might not look fancy or unique or iconic from outside, but it’s such an important pinch point for the community. Trudi Sandmeier 00:12Welcome to Save As:…
Reinvesting in a Rosenwald School Cindy Olnick 00:00 Today on Save As… Evelyn Robertson 00:01 So what these schools did, they created an inspiration within those young people to look beyond your present status. Look beyond you and me and…
Bearing Witness: World War II “Comfort Women” Stations
Warning: This episode features the difficult topic of sexual slavery during World War II.
Producer Willa Seidenberg talks with recent graduate Hanyu Chen about her thesis, “Our Bodies, Their Battlegrounds”: The Conservation of Comfort Stations in China. Before and during World War II, the Japanese Imperial Army forced women and girls into sexual slavery for the military in its occupied territories. Their captors called them “comfort women” and their prisons “comfort stations.” Two of the few remaining former comfort stations are in Hanyu’s hometown.
In this episode, Hanyu discusses how the “comfort women” system developed, why these crimes took so long to reach the public eye, and why conserving the few former stations is critical to reclaiming these women’s stories.
Bearing Witness: World War II “Comfort Women” Stations Trudi Sandmeier 00:00This episode of Save As features that difficult and potentially triggering topic of sexual slavery during World War Two. So please be warned. Hanyu Chen 00:08That’s the function of an architecture of…
[Encore] Preserving That Signature Sound Cindy Olnick 00:00 Hi everybody, we are back with another “Emily’s Pick,” which is an encore presentation from the Save As archive selected by our intern Emily Kwok. So Emily, thank you for selecting this…
[Encore] Preserving That Signature Sound
In case you missed it, we are re-releasing an episode from our first season, chosen by our Save As intern, Emily Kwok. It’s an Emily’s Pick!
Have you ever considered sound a character-defining feature? Musician and recent USC grad Kasey Viso Conley certainly has. She knows why Nat King Cole, Janis Joplin, Van Halen, and countless other recording artists insisted on using specific studios to get a certain sound. It’s the physical environment of the studio, from acoustic tiles to echo chambers. Yet the transformation of recording technology has studios closing left and right. Why save these places when you can simulate their sounds at home with a digital plugin? How do you preserve pegboard that’s no longer made? Hear how Kasey explored these issues and many more in her thesis, Acoustic Heritage of Recording Studios: Physical Characteristics and Signature Sound.