Wisdom Blog

Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Architecture

David Rockwell & Jerry Mitchell "choreograph" a JetBlue terminal

When architect and stage designer David Rockport (TED ‘97, ‘99, ‘02) was asked to design the interior of the new JetBlue t...

May 31, 2006
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Design

Coming soon: Behind the TED2006 Wrap-up

Finally the story can be told…How a dedicated team of intrepid writers, designers, and Candy Building Architects stayed up all night t...

Apr 13, 2006
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Design

Solar-powered surprise from Ross Lovegrove

After designing “the iPod of toilets” this fall, Ross Lovegrove (TED05) introduced in Milan this week a solar-powered concept ca...

Apr 7, 2006
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Architecture

What to do until the TED DVD arrives…

I don’t know about you, but my mind is simply abuzz with the sights, sounds, emotions, and ideas I encountered at TED 2006.  I ca...

Mar 2, 2006
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Architecture

TED's got the look

I could lose my blogging privileges for this, but I felt like someone had to point out TED’s Headquarters brightening up the pages of ...

Jan 31, 2006
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Biology

Designing a living machine

At TED2005 and TEDGlobal, genomics pioneer Craig Venter mentioned — casually, as always — his desire to create a fully synthetic...

Jan 19, 2006
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Design

A "Slow Design" movement?

At TEDGlobal, Carl Honore explained the motivation behind his book, In Praise of Slowness: While reading his son a “One-Minute Bedtime...

Jan 17, 2006
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Art

Flickr: Museum of the future?

A collection of mid-century science magazines points to Flickrs potential as the museum of the future

Jan 10, 2006
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Design

Computer-generated films come of age

MOMA opens an exhibit on Pixar; The Economist surveys the state of CG animation.

Dec 14, 2005
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