Wisdom Blog

Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Architecture

A speech to graduating Harvard architects

Last week, TED’s curator, Chris Anderson, addressed the 2011 graduating class of architects from the Harvard Graduate School of Design...

May 30, 2011
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Design

Architecture that senses and responds: Carlo Ratti on TED.com

With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT’s Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data set...

May 3, 2011
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Culture

Open-sourcing the blueprints of civilization: Marcin Jakubowski on TED.com

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyon...

Apr 14, 2011
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Art

The genius puppetry behind War Horse: Handspring Puppet Company

“Puppets always have to try to be alive,” says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of ...

Mar 30, 2011
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Design

Ads Worth Spreading: Last call for entries!

With only one week to deadline, we’re making a final call for submissions to the Ads Worth Spreading challenge — TED’s initiative to f...

Jan 31, 2011
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Design

The INK Conference revs up

The INK Conference, held in partnership with TED, begins today in the hillside town of Lavasa, India. Speakers and attendees began arriving ...

Dec 9, 2010
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Design

Retrofitting suburbia: Ellen Dunham-Jones on TED.com

Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dyin...

Jun 29, 2010
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Design

Intricate beauty by design: Marian Bantjes on TED.com

In graphic design, Marian Bantjes says, throwing your individuality into a project is heresy. She explains how she built her career doing ju...

Jun 22, 2010
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Design

Sweat the small stuff: Rory Sutherland on TED.com

It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better,...

Jun 9, 2010
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