Posts with tag Ideas

The first thing that you see in the open hall of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is a glass room for project ideas. ”Room for big ideas” is supposed to be a space where you can sit in soft sofas and talk, discuss, reflect and come up with new ideas.

The center is a large center for both visual and perming contemporary art. We are toured around the visual arts exhibition by the Interim Director of Visual Arts, Kate Eilertsen, who tells us about the artists and the mission of the exhibition: make peace, not war.

On the website ted.com you find ”Ideas worth spreading”, a collection of inspiring talks from of all sorts of people and celebrities; speakers that talk about everything from the story of the long tail, design as art, digging for ants, health-care issues, the new generation of African leaders, climate changes, the building of US design firm IDEO and many other things.

On links below you find for example Charles Leadbeater, researcher from London-based think tank Demos; David Kelley, who started the Design firm IDEO; and Chris Anderson, editor of Wired and author of the book ”The Long Tail”.

David Kelley

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/122

Charles Leadbeater

http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/60

Chris Anderson

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/72

www.ted.com