Top 4 Design TED Talks To Watch
Sometimes we need to seek professional inspiration from people that have done amazing things throughout the world, or simply from someone who was a great source form the TED community. Below are our top 4 design TED Talks to inspire you on this beautiful Friday; even if you have seen these already, we hope they continue to inspire you and keep those wheels turning to reinvent our design community and appeal to your architectural mindset.
WHY THE BUILDINGS OF THE FUTURE WILL BE SHAPED BY … YOU | Marc Kushner
“That feeling, those emotions that I felt, that’s the power of architecture, because architecture is not about math and it’s not about zoning, it’s about those visceral, emotional connections that we feel to the places that we occupy” says Marc Kushner. He not only talks about the past 30 years of architecture and the design process, but with a little humor interprets how architecture truly affects the atmosphere to the human being. We must begin thinking of what architecture does for us rather than what we want it to look like.
HOW TO REVIVE A NEIGHBORHOOD: WITH IMAGINATION, BEAUTY, AND ART | Theaster Gates
Imagination begins with an individual project and the relationship of synergies one wants to create. “I’ve found that in cases where neighborhoods have failed, they still often have a pulse. How do you identify the pulse in that place, the passionate people, and then how do you get folk who have been fighting, slogging for 20 years, reenergized about the place that they live?” says Theaster Gates. Culture and reinvesting in resources that have not been made available to neighborhoods ignite the start of a poetic demand as Gates explains. It is time to believe that beauty is a basic service and find a way to reinvent it within every city.
WHY GREAT ARCHITECTURE SHOULD TELL A STORY | Ole Scheeren
“Form follows function had become modernity’s ambitious manifesto and detrimental straitjacket, as it liberated architecture from the decorative, but condemned it to utilitarian rigor and restrained purpose,” says Ole Scheeren. The question that lies at hand is, can architecture and the people that work or live inside of it become a part of that building? Do their experiences communicate the design’s intent? Scheeren dives into this topic by visiting his top five buildings and the stories behind the design and the collaboration of storytelling.
ARCHITECTURE THAT’S BUILT TO HEAL | Michael Murphy
“Why was it that the best architects, the greatest architecture…all beautiful and visionary and innovative…is also so rare, and seems to serve so very few? And more to the point: with all of this creative talent, what more could we do?” Michael Murphy. There should be a holistic approach of production for a community within an environmental footprint and design. Murphy shows and explains his approach to considering different factors of healing within a footprint and how that increases the healing aspect of architecture.