Theaster Gates in Conversation With Doug Aitken "I have this great problem of space," Theaster Gates says. When planners use words like blight and underdeveloped, it's like actually what you are talking about is available land. The artist and urban planner talks to Doug Aitken in an abandoned property on Chicago's South Side that he calls the Archive House. By adding a reading room and a space for records, Gates has reimagined the property as a hub for artists. Gates (who chatted with Perry Chen of Kickstarter in a conversation published by T last year) has made it his mission to repurpose unused buildings to transform local communities. Throughout the festival, T will exclusively present clips of nine of Aitken's conversations for the series - with Gates, Liz Diller, Tilda Swinton, Paolo Soleri, James Turrell, Aaron Koblin, Alice Waters, Liz Glynn and Beck. To see them, visit our project page for the Source, where we will be rolling out the videos one at a time over a two-week span. Be sure to watch already-posted interviews with James Turrell, Tilda Swinton, Paolo Soleri and Liz Diller.