TEDxRamallah - Alessandro Petti أليساندرو بيتي - Decolonizing The Mind
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Alessandro Petti is an architect and researcher based in Bethlehem. He is the Director of DAAR, an architectural research studio based in Palestine, which combines discourse, urban intervention, education, collective learning, public meetings and legal challenges as a form of political intervention and narration. In 2010 DAAR won the Prince Clau... Read more
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- -: TEDxRamallah - Alessandro Petti أليساندرو بيتي - Decolonizing The Mind
July 7, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Alessandro Petti is an architect and researcher based in Bethlehem. He is the Director of DAAR, an architectural research studio based in Palestine, which combines discourse, urban intervention, education, collective learning, public meetings and legal challenges as a form of political interventi...
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- -: Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning
January 12, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the ...
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- -: Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe
October 22, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Reuse of syringes, all too common in under-funded clinics, kills 1.3 million each year. Marc Koska clues us in to this devastating global problem with facts, photos and hidden-camera footage. He shares his solution: a low-cost syringe that can't be used twice. TEDTalks is a da...
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- -: Robert Hammond: Building a park in the sky
July 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com New York was planning to tear down the High Line, an abandoned elevated railroad in Manhattan, when Robert Hammond and a few friends suggested: Why not make it a park? He shares how it happened in this tale of local cultural activism. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the b...
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- -: TEDxNIDBangalore - Manoj Kothari - Design for India: 3 Dimensions
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Manoj gives a riveting talk about the three unique attributes of designing for India. Manoj Kothari leads the Design research & innovation strategy consulting practice at Onio Design Pvt. Ltd. A graduate of IIT Bombay and NID Ahmedabad, Manoj has lead innovation assignments for Indian and intern...
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- -: Fast Nuclear Reactors: An Inexhaustible Source of Energy?
March 9, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/06/A_Low-Carbon_Future_The_Nuclear_Question Barry Brook, Director of Climate Science at The University of Adelaide Environment Institute, discusses the potential impact of fast nuclear reactors. He explains that by recycling and reusing nuclear waste, th...
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Arthur Potts Dawson: A Vision for Sustainable Restaurants
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)In this talk, Green Chef Arthur Potts-Dawson tells us about his vision for sustainable restaurants. He shows us first how wasteful restaurants are and he shows us all the different types of waste. He then lets us see how a sustainable restaurant works with his 4 R's - reduce, reuse, refuse, and r...
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