Aesthetic Realism Explains the Cause
of America's Housing Crisis & the
Solution!
“I feel
passionately
that when people learn to see other human beings as
having insides, hopes, feelings as real as their own, homelessness will
be a thing of the past. And I want people to know what is in these
sentences
from Self and
World by Eli
Siegel: ‘The world should
be owned by the people living in it....All persons should be seen as
living
in a world truly theirs.’”
—Ken
Kimmelman, Emmy
Award-winning
filmmaker, Aesthetic
Realism Consultant
This site describes a groundbreaking
presentation about homelessness in America—and the crucial fact that
it can
be eradicated when the underlying cause is seen and changed.
The speakers—
New
York City planner Barbara Buehler, architects Anthony Romeo and Dale
Laurin,
and Emmy-winning filmmaker Ken Kimmelman. They tell what they've seen
through
their study of Aesthetic Realism, the education founded by the American
philosopher and poet Eli Siegel, about the cause of the housing
crisis in America—the contempt at
the
basis of our economic system—how it begins
in every person, and how it can change.
Presented
at—
- New York
Anti-Hunger League, New York University
- Campus
Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) National Conference,
Harvard
- Nat'l
Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness, U. of Maryland
- Boston
University's Keynote at Community Service Education Week
- Dickinson
College, Carlisle, PA
- American
Institute of Architects National Convention, Philadelphia
What Does a Person Deserve?—
Shown in this presentation is
the
award-winning public service film
against homelessness and hunger produced by Ken
Kimmelman, What
Does a
Person Deserve?, based
on statements by Eli Siegel, which ends with
the sentences quoted above from Mr.
Siegel's book Self and World:
The
world should be owned by the people living in it....
All
persons should be seen as living in a world truly theirs.
Dale Laurin, RA,
moderator,
speaks about how he came to see people and his profession
differently—and
to feel that for other human beings to live without homes is an outrage
that architects and others must do everything we can to end.
Barbara
Buehler, Associate City
Planner, NYC Department of City Planning, presents "Housing: a Basic
Human
Right"—documenting the horrible extent of homelessness in New York
City,
with a new, crucial understanding of the cause.
Ken Kimmelman,
President, Imagery Film Ltd.,
shows What
Does a Person Deserve?—and speaks about the film's meaning
and
what impelled him to make it.
Anthony C. Romeo,
AIA, tells
of the critical state of housing for senior citizens, and what he
learned
about the relation of beauty and ethics—what's needed to end the
brutally
unjust situation we have now.
Housing
is
a basic
human right, and should not be a means of profit for landlords and
developers. America
can have good housing for everyone!
Housingaright.org
170 Second Avenue, Suite 5D, New York, NY 10003 Telephone
212-243-5579 |
