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December 2010
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WatchBrene Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.
WatchAt TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t “act like a man.” Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the “man box.”
Watch11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food — far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he outlines the case to green and localize food production.
Why Can’t Kids Play in Dataran Merdeka? (UPDATED)
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By Zedeck Siew
In an interview with The Star on 2 Dec 2010, KL Mayor Ahmad Fuad Ismail talked about the importance of parks, and stressed the growing need for communal space. “People are living in condos and high-rise buildings,” Fuad said. “They have no space to breathe so they look to DBKL to provide them with a place where they can hang out, interact and relax.”
Contrast that...
November 2010
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Watch“Life buoy” is a project from a degree student at the National University of Arts from Bucharest. The film was made in mid 2010 and it is a music video for the song “Life buoy” by the band “The Pixels” through the use of a mix of stop motion animation techniques in order to tell the story.
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WatchDesigner Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She’s teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers’ minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state.
VISUAL BASH: 100-storey Megatower!
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By Norman Teh Welcome to VISUAL BASH, a column in which designer Norman Teh turns his critical, designerly eye on the visual culture of KL! This time around: the planned Warisan Merdeka site! Malaysia has never been in short supply of architectural ambitions: grand schemes for new, intelligent cities; designer malls; the arenas and stadiums that played host to the Commonwealth games....
WatchExclusive with Chris Anderson (editor of Wired Magazine): On founding a robot company, writing books and fathering 5 kids - while editting Wired
October 2010
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WatchDavid Guggenheim directed An Inconvenient Truth and with Waiting For Superman turns his attention to the problems in the US public schools system. According to the infographic-laden trailer, the US is currently has an enormous social problem on its hands with a child dropping out of high school every 36 seconds – that’s 1.2m a year.
The trailer neatly illustrates the inequalities that...
WatchIn 2006, he launched “Portrait of a Generation,” huge-format portraits of suburban “thugs” from Paris’ notorious banlieues, posted on the walls of the bourgeois districts of Paris. This illegal project became official when Paris City Hall wrapped its own building in JR’s photos.
In 2007, with business partner Marco, he did “Face 2 Face,” which some consider the biggest illegal photo exhibition...
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WatchRhode Island School of Design president John Maeda defines the key qualities of standout innovators – a willingness to struggle, to make mistakes, to live with ambiguity – and tackles the creative’s biggest challenge: How to lead other creatives. Perhaps confronting the status quo, killing bureaucracy, and leading change can be its own art form.
