Lucinda’s run through at rehearsal on Monday was pretty impressive. A very creative presentation and amazing stories. Trained as a landscape architect, Lucinda Hartley, 28, spent two years working in slum communities in Vietnam and Cambodia before launching Community Oriented Design –[co]design studio. Selected as a 2010 Youth Action Net Global Fellow, Lucinda has been [...]
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Experience #TEDxMelb in virtual 3D
Experience TEDxMelbourne: Community and Youth in a 3D auditorium with other virtual TEDxMelbourne attendees from all over the world. You will be able to: listen and watch videos of live speakers; be a part of the event by asking questions through 3D chat, and interact with other attendees from around the world using 3D avatars. [...]
Meet Chuck Berger – Speaker at TEDxMelbourne: Community & Youth
On Monday we had the opportunity to speak with some of the speakers and performers after their rehearsals for this Saturday’s TEDxMelbourne: Community and Youth. We certainly enjoyed the opportunity to meet them, and we thought you would too, so we decided to video a quick introduction. First cab off the rank was Chuck Berger. [...]
TED Talk: Chris Abani muses on humanity
In this poignant TED Talk, novelist and poet Chris Abani deftly weaves humour and compassion into stirring stories about people reclaiming their humanity. It’s “ubuntu,” he says: the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.
What does community mean to you?
Being a social person it’s not surprising that I find the function and development of communities to be a fascinating subject. I also find it quite remarkable how much the meaning of the word ‘community’ has changed just in the last century. It seems appropriate to look to Wikipedia for a definition: In biological terms, [...]
TED Talk: Chip Conley ~ Measuring what makes life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein once said: “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” Chip Conley believes that we need to think about what we count. In 1987, at the age of 26 and seeking a little “joy of life,” Chip Conley founded Joie de Vivre Hospitality by transforming a [...]
We’ve got a great day planned – here’s how you can join us on the day.
In the spirit of TED, we want to give you the opportunity to experience TEDxMelbourne: Community & Youth even if you can’t be in the room. We also want to give the wonderful lineup of speakers the chance to share their “ideas worth spreading” with as many people as possible. Live Events TEDxMelbourne Experimedia Experience [...]
Social Gathering 5th May
If you are interested catching up with TED fans. Our first social gathering is next week Golden Gate Hotel 238 Clarendon St South Melbourne 5 May @ 6pm in the main bar
Attend TEDxMelbourne in Virtual 3D
TEDxMelbourne will be available around the world via 3D Virtual Conferencing provided by Surround Us 3D Webcasting.
Videos. Last chance to vote
Voting for which videos will be shown on the day will soon be closing. The feedback that we got from you last time was that the day was a little too long. So this time we have trimmed things down a little and will only be showing four official TED videos, and one live speaker. [...]
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