Our last day together as a group waxed from somber to jovial as we visited many memorials. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews was a foreign, strange, dark, and disorienting landscape for me. The ground undulated underfoot, while blocks in some pattern or formation rose and fell in their own heights. I tried to capture this with a piece of footage taken out of focus whilst walking along one section of narrow pathway, to illustrate the sudden flicker of light and dark as you walked through the grid of blocks. 

I asked Michael if there was any math behind the blocks and he replied that the artist, whether or not he had made any calculations, publicly denied it. This seemed appropriate considering the subject matter and the controversial debates it had taken to even decide on a design. This moment and words Michael said earlier when we stood at Humboldt University's memorial to the book burning that had happened there, struck me again with the power that we each have to influence what goes on around us. Whether students of a particular political party or a designer of a memorial that will become part of an urban landscape, Berlin spoke to the power that we have to influence our future environments, spaces, places, and oases.