Series 2.1: POST-CONTEMPORARY Contemporary art, as the name says, is the art of its time: it belongs to the present in which it takes place. Moreover, that p...
Leyla Acaroglu (A-jar-a-loo) is a sustainability strategist and leading proponent of systemic life cycle based...
Leyla Acaroglu (A-jar-a-loo) is a sustainability strategist and leading proponent of systemic life cycle based sustainability. She is the founder and director of Eco Innovators, designer, social scientist, strategist and educator she is a creative force who finds innovative and inspiring ways of catalyzing change. Her work spans a range of fields and projects including the development of one of the first online life cycle assessment tools - 'Greenfly', creative director of the award winning sustainability education project 'The Secret Life of Things', designed the 'Design Play Cards' and in 2012 was an Artist in Residence with Autodesk. She lectures at RMIT University where she is also undertaking her PhD in designing change. Leyla was invited to speak at TED2013 in Longbeach, has been named one of Melbourne's Top 100 People of Influence, was a judge on the ABC TV show The New Inventors, radio presenter, op-ed writer for the New York Times, and has won several awards including two Melbourne Design Awards and a CORE77 design award for her work. In her humorous and compelling talk, Leyla explores why we need to rethink sustainability..
Disability discrimination downloads: http://bit.ly/1KRr8vd If we’re not used to dealing with disabled people, we may...
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In the past, sailors on whaling ships would carve whale teeth into works of art in a process called scrimshaw. These...
In the past, sailors on whaling ships would carve whale teeth into works of art in a process called scrimshaw. These pieces would be brought home to loved on...
Kyle MacDonald details just exactly how he traded up from one red paperclip to a house, in only a year! It's an...
Kyle MacDonald details just exactly how he traded up from one red paperclip to a house, in only a year! It's an unlikely and amazing journey with lots of sur...
So all these countries have an idea that under the reign of the living God-Emperor Donald Trump, it should be them...
So all these countries have an idea that under the reign of the living God-Emperor Donald Trump, it should be them second. We disagree. We feel that in a tim...
Damien Declercq on "Why we are entering a mobility revolution" at TEDxHamburgSalon (http://www.tedxhamburg.de)...
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Professor and Chair of the...
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition Sciences at Drex...