Pranav Mistry at TED; The Sixth Sense

Pranav Mistry is redefining how we use objects and gestures to interact with the digital world. He developed the Sixth Sense device to satisfy his impulse to paint the physical world with digital information. Using a camera that understands human gestures, the Sixth Sense has extraordinary capabilities. Mistry’s technology is integrating the digital and physical worlds, rather than forcing us to switch back and forth between the two. (source: http://blog.ted.com/2009/11/05/tedindia_sessio_2/)

Benjamin Zander: Leaders Create Shining Eyes

Living in a probability: “the conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound, he depends for his power of his ability to make other people powerful.” Ladys and gentlemans the leadership and clasical music as you never seen it before.

About this talk

Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, and new connections.

About Benjamin Zander

A leading interpreter of Mahler and Beethoven, Benjamin Zander is known for his charisma and unyielding energy -- and for his brilliant pre-concert talks

Why you should listen to him:

Since 1979, Benjamin Zander has been the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic. He is known around the world as both a guest conductor and a speaker on leadership -- and he's been known to do both in a single performance. He uses music to help people open their minds and create joyful harmonies that bring out the best in themselves and their colleagues.

His provocative ideas about leadership are rooted in a partnership with Rosamund Stone Zander, with whom he co-wrote The Art of Possibility.

"Arguably the most accessible communicator about classical music since Leonard Bernstein, Zander moves audiences with his unbridled passion and enthusiasm."

Sue Fox, London Sunday Times

Source

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html

Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action

About this talk

Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.

About Janine Benyus

A self-proclaimed nature nerd, Janine Benyus' concept of biomimicry has galvanized scientists, architects, designers and engineers into exploring new ways in which nature's successes can inspire…

Why you should listen to her:

In the world envisioned by science author Janine Benyus, a locust's ability to avoid collision within a roiling cloud of its brethren informs the design of a crash-resistant car; a self-cleaning leaf inspires a new kind of paint, one that dries in a pattern that enables simple rainwater to wash away dirt; and organisms capable of living without water open the way for vaccines that maintain potency even without refrigeration -- a hurdle that can prevent life-saving drugs from reaching disease-torn communities. Most important, these cool tools from nature pull off their tricks while still managing to preserve the environment that sustains them, a life-or-death lesson that humankind is in need of learning.

As a champion of biomimicry, Benyus has become one of the most important voices in a new wave of designers and engineers inspired by nature. Her most recent project, AskNature, explores what happens if we think of nature by function and looks at what organisms can teach us about design.

"The sophisticated, almost pro-growth angle of Benyus shows the great potential profitability of copying some of nature's time-tested, nonpolluting, room-temperature manufacturing and computing technologies."

New York Times

Source :

http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action.html

Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture

About this talk:

How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun.

About Michael Pawlyn:

Michael Pawlyn takes cues from nature to make new, sustainable architectural environments

Why you should listen to him:

Michael Pawlyn established the architecture firm Exploration in 2007 to focus on environmentally sustainable projects that take their inspiration from nature.

Prior to setting up the company, Pawlyn worked with the firm Grimshaw for ten years and was central to the team that radically re-invented horticultural architecture for the Eden Project. He was responsible for leading the design of the Warm Temperate and Humid Tropics Biomes and the subsequent phases that included proposals for a third Biome for plants from dry tropical regions. In 1999 he was one of five winners in A Car-free London, an ideas competition for strategic solutions to the capital’s future transport needs and new possibilities for urban spaces. In September 2003 he joined an intensive course in nature-inspired design atSchumacher College, run by Amory Lovins and Janine Benyus. He has lectured widely on the subject of sustainable design in the UK and abroad.

His Sahara Forest Project, covered in this TEDTalk, recently won major funding >>

Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pawlyn_using_nature_s_genius_in_architecture.html

Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in others

As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said: "When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better." But why we must be idealistics? Victor FranKl will put it so well...

About this talk:

In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning -- and the most important gift we can give others.

About Viktor E Frankl:

Neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl pioneered an approach to psychotherapy that focuses on the human search for meaning

Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/viktor_frankl_youth_in_search_of_meaning.html

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Conference in Toronto with students for search for meaning.

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William McDonough on cradle to cradle design

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William McDonough sobre el diseño "de cuna a cuna"

Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time."

El arquitecto y diseñador de enfoque ecologista William McDonough se pregunta cómo se verían nuestros edificios y productos si los diseñadores tuvieran en cuenta a "todos los niños, todas las especies, indefinidamente".

About William McDonough:

Architect William McDonough believes that green design can prevent environmental disaster -- while also driving economic growth. He champions “cradle to cradle” design that considers the full life cycle of a product, from its creation with sustainable materials to a recycled afterlife.

Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/william_mcdonough_on_cradle_to_cradle_design.html

Ken Robinson dice que las escuelas matan la creatividad

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

Sir Ken Robinson plantea de manera entretenida y conmovedora la necesidad de crear un sistema educativo que nutra (en vez de socavar) la creatividad.

Sobre Ken Robinson:

El experto de creatividad Sir Ken Robinson desafía la manera en que nosotros educamos a nuestros niños. Él defiende un replaneamiento radical de nuestros sistemas escolares, cultivar la creatividad y reconocer múltiples tipos de inteligencia. Full bio and more links

Fuente: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

Rachel Amstrong: ¿Arquitectura que se repara a sí misma?

Venecia, en Italia, se está hundiendo. Para salvarla, Rachel Amstrong dice que necesitamos superar la arquitectura hecha de materiales inertes y hacer arquitectura que crezca por sí misma. Ella propone un material "no del todo vivo" que se hace sus propias reparaciones y, además, captura el carbono.

Fuente:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/spa/rachel_armstrong_architecture_that_repairs_itself.html

Esther Duflo: Experimentos sociales para luchar contra la pobreza

El alivio de la pobreza es más conjetura que ciencia, y la falta de datos sobre el impacto de la ayuda plantea preguntas acerca de cómo proporcionarla. Pero Esther Duflo ganadora de la Medalla Clark dice que es posible saber cuáles esfuerzos de desarrollo ayudan y cuales hieren - probando soluciones con ensayos aleatorios.

Fuente: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/esther_duflo_social_experiments_to_fight_poverty.html

Jane McGonigal: Los juegos online pueden crear un mundo mejor

Los juegos como World of Warcraft brindan medios a los jugadores para salvar mundos, y los incentivan a aprender los hábitos de los héroes. ¿Y si pudiéramos aprovechar esta potencia de juego para resolver problemas del mundo real? Jane McGonigal dice que podemos, y explica cómo.

Fuente: http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html

Robert Neuwirth, las ciudades informales son las ciudades del futuro

Robert Neuwirth, autor de "Ciudades Sombra", encuentra que las ciudades informales del mundo son los centros de la innovación para el mañana. El nos lleva por un tour.

Fuente: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/robert_neuwirth_on_our_shadow_cities.html

Daniel Libeskind, 17 palabras de inspiración arquitectónica

Daniel Libeskind desarrolla ideas monumentales. Aquí, él comparte 17 palabras sobre las cuales se apoya su visión de la arquitectura -- básica, arriesgada, emocional, radical -- y que ofrecen la inspiración para cuaquier franco emprendimiento creativo.

Fuente: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/daniel_libeskind_s_17_words_of_architectural_inspiration.html

Alex Steffen vislumbra un futuro sustentable

El fundador de Worldchanging.com, Alex Steffen, sostiene que reducir la huella ecológica humana es extremedamente importante hoy, a medida que el estilo de vida y de consumo occidental se extiende a los países en vías de desarrollo.

Fuente: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alex_steffen_sees_a_sustainable_future.html

Frank Gehry pregunta: "¿Y ahora qué?"

En una discusión muy entretenida con Richard Saul Wurman, el arquitecto Frank Gehry ofrece a los Tedsters su postura acerca del poder del fracaso, sus edificios recientes y el factor totalmente importante de "¿Luego qué?".

Fuente: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/frank_gehry_asks_then_what.html

Stephen Hawking formula grandes preguntas sobre el universo

Continuando con la temática de TED2008, el profesor Stephen Hawking pregunta sobre algunos de los Grandes Interrogantes sobre nuestro universo: ¿Cómo comenzó el universo? ¿Cómo comenzó la vida? ¿Estamos solos?. Y plantea de qué modo nos podemos aproximar a responderlas.

Fuente: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe.html