Some of the girls wore sparkly dresses and did their hair. I wore a funny hat and my headphones to the side like a DJ. All the students and their families were connected, listening to music and dancing on their little screens in their living rooms and bedrooms. Trying to keep six feet apart, even if you fail, can be harder than remote learning.
You learn how to work with other people, how to share, how to talk - and that’s still missing. First grade is a very important year for socializing. Some students look at the screen but don’t connect to the rest of the group or to the teacher. The biggest challenge was the difference in developmental abilities. I wanted to make the parents feel a little safer, but I really didn’t feel safe myself. Later, she sent me a video of them in the park throwing a ball, and it made me feel good but also sad that just going out to the park was so difficult now. I tried to convince the mom to bring her child outside. They were in the bedroom together, dealing with the anxiety of being stuck at home. One mother was nervous about everything, and she and her daughter barely went out.
I was on the phone with them four or five hours a day, trying to figure out lots of different issues - not just technology issues, but also talking about health and food and making sure everybody was safe. When we went remote, maybe a quarter of the parents hadn’t used a computer before. Presented here is one of the 15 concepts submitted by architects, designers, artists, and composers the rest will appear over the course of this week. We imposed no budget limit and no restrictions: The result could be a sculpture, a mural, a pavilion, a song - anything that could become part of the streetscape for a while. In response, a selection of architects and artists translated those clients’ memories into proposals for temporary installations. Instead of proposing a grand permanent memorial, we asked a wide range of New Yorkers about the moments from the pandemic that stood out to them and how they would want those experiences to be commemorated. The tragedy’s scale has made it difficult to comprehend the private griefs so many of us have experienced: the million heartbreaks of lost friends, lost livelihoods, lost neighborhood fixtures, lost senses of belonging.
A year after New York City went into lockdown, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 30,000 of its residents.
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