TEDYouth, in pictures: What happens when 400 middle + high school students come to TED
TEDYouth 2013 was a blast. In session 1, Suzanne Simard taught us about the familial relationships of trees. In session 2, Maya Penn shared ...
Nairobi in pictures: Juliana Rotich shares her favorite spots in the Kenyan capital city
Juliana Rotich didn’t grow up in Nairobi, but the Kenyan capital has been her official full-time home since 2011. Now, she describes t...
Sao Paulo in pictures: Juliana Machado Ferreira picks her favorite places in the city
Biologist and TED Fellow Juliana Machado Ferreira grew up just outside of São Paulo, and went to both university and graduate school in the ...
Cairo in pictures: artist Bahia Shehab on real life in the vibrant city
Bahia Shebab is an artist, activist, and advertising executive who has been living in Cairo since 2003. And she also has been known to head ...
Shanghai in pictures: entrepreneur David Li on the city as hackerspace
David Li has lived in Shanghai since 2003, when the Taiwan-born consultant and entrepreneur moved to the city to take advantage of a place i...
Lahore in pictures: Khurram Siddiqi on the heart of Pakistan’s major city
By Nicola Twilley Technology professor Khurram Siddiqi enjoys a complicated relationship with his hometown of Lahore, Pakistan. For one thin...
Jawdropping views of cozy homes built in an abandoned office tower, a lagoon, a recycling heap and more
Iwan Baan is not as interested in what architects build as he is in the beautiful ways that people appropriate the spaces once the planners ...
Madrid in pictures: architect Inaki Romero Larrea shares his Spain
by Rebecca Smith Hurd 29-year-old Iñaki Romero Larrea describes himself as an “urbanist before architect.” As one of the five me...
Mexico City in pictures: Gabriella Gomez Mont shares a who’s who and a what’s where of Mexican cool
As you can likely tell from this profile of her life and work, Gabriella Gomez-Mont is one connected lady. Ask her for a list of some of the...