Strangeness Illuminates Our Humanity and Creates Opportunity
Image excerpt from Maria Bezaitis: The surprising need for strangeness
When we consider boundaries rather than assuming rigidity, we can become more flexible in our understanding of others, and ourselves creating freedom for growth and illumination. But often, it is fear that keeps us from approaching what is unknown. Maria Bezaitis calls for a new understanding and openness to technology as a way to learn. She says there is opportunity for technology to “disrupt the balance of certain kinds of relationships.” This disruption illuminates the needs as well as the solutions.
At TEDxPeachtree, we are creating a space to explore strangeness. By doing so, we are entering into a relationship that is unknown, un-illuminated. It’s up to us to allow light into the spaces between us and to see how that will create life. We will have this opportunity on October 17, 2014 when TEDxPeachtree illuminates Atlanta.
Nia Baker has lived in Atlanta almost ten years, the longest she’s lived anywhere, and has worked in the nonprofit sector for the last five years, focusing on effective systems and creative communication. Nia enjoys Atlanta street art, french press coffee, and really good adjective.
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