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Reframing: Session 10 at TEDGlobal 2012
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Reframing: Session 10 at TEDGlobal 2012

Click to view (and remix) the session-opening animation Progress comes, often, from forging ahead, striking out in a direction and discoveri...

Jun 28, 2012
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The case for being opaque: Deyan Sudjic at TEDGlobal 2012
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The case for being opaque: Deyan Sudjic at TEDGlobal 2012

The director of the Design Museum in London, Deyan Sudjic arrives onstage with a confession. “Designers have a tendency to answer the ...

Jun 28, 2012
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Play with the “Talk to Strangers” web toy! Animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 8
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Play with the “Talk to Strangers” web toy! Animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 8

Play at http://www.thehumantype.org. Director’s statement: “An online application that allows strangers to talk to each other us...

Jun 28, 2012
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Talk to Strangers: Session 8 at TEDGlobal2012
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Talk to Strangers: Session 8 at TEDGlobal2012

Click to watch the session-opening animation The promise of a globalized world is that we can talk to anyone, anywhere in the world. But how...

Jun 28, 2012
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Guitar heroes: Q&A with Usman Riaz at TEDGlobal
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Guitar heroes: Q&A with Usman Riaz at TEDGlobal

Photo: James Duncan Davidson. Via the TED Fellows blog: Usman Riaz closed out the Wednesday sessions of TEDGlobal with an extraordinary perf...

Jun 28, 2012
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Percussive guitar from the guy who invented it (and someone he inspired): Preston Reed and Usman Riaz at TEDGlobal2012
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Percussive guitar from the guy who invented it (and someone he inspired): Preston Reed and Usman Riaz at TEDGlobal2012

TEDGlobal Fellow Usman Riaz is an innovative musician who plays with vim and verve. He’s taken to the stage to enchant the assembled c...

Jun 27, 2012
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Long Term: Opening animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 7
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Long Term: Opening animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 7

Brief: People are similar to any good idea. It goes through an adventure to become mature. Director’s statement: “We drew a char...

Jun 27, 2012
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Modern dance choreographed in real time: Wayne McGregor at TEDGlobal 2012
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Modern dance choreographed in real time: Wayne McGregor at TEDGlobal 2012

Wayne McGregor bounds onto stage wearing a tracksuit. “I’m passionate about creativity,” says the choreographer excitedly....

Jun 27, 2012
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Listening to Picasso: Neil Harbisson at TEDGlobal2012
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Listening to Picasso: Neil Harbisson at TEDGlobal2012

“I’ve never seen color and I don’t know what color looks like. I come from a grayscale world,” says artist Neil Harb...

Jun 27, 2012
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