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/)

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

Mitchell Joachim: “The City Car”

World Science Festival 2008: Future Cities (Excerpt) from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

We stand at a crossroads. Cities must change radically to achieve long-term sustainability. Energy, food and water sources, transportation systems and basic infrastructure, must all adapt to emerging pressures from climate change, dwindling resources and growing urban populations.

Mitchell Joachim is an architect and urban designer as well as a partner in Terreform, a New York–based organization for philanthropic architecture and ecological design. His design of a compact, stackable “city car,” developed with the MIT Smart Cities Group, won the 2007 Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year.

http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/video/future-cities

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