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TED Design — 84 episodes
What can we learn from shortcuts? : Tom Hulme
Alison Killing What happens when a city runs out of room for its dead
Chip Kidd: The art of first impressions — in design and life
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A visual history of inequality in industrial America
Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is ... noticing
Roman Mars: Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed
Elora Hardy: Magical houses, made of bamboo
Takaharu Tezuka: The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen
Alison Killing: There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help
Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art
Marc Kushner: Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by ... you
Brian Dettmer: Old books reborn as intricate art
Tom Wujec: Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast
Daniele Quercia: Happy maps
Dave Troy: Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations
Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the pro
Moshe Safdie: How to reinvent the apartment building
Uldus Bakhtiozina: Wry photos that turn stereotypes upside down
Dan Barasch: A park underneath the hustle and bustle of New York City
Aziza Chaouni: How I brought a river, and my city, back to life
Janet Iwasa: How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis
Margaret Gould Stewart: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others,
Shih Chieh Huang: Sculptures that'd be at home at the bottom of the ocean
ikolai Begg: A tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery
Robert Full: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots
Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near win
Hamish Jolly: A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think)
David Epstein: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore
Aparna Rao: Art that craves your attention
Teddy Cruz: How architectural innovations migrate across borders
Luke Syson: How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art
Krista Donaldson: The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives
Enrique Peñalosa: Why buses represent democracy in action
Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind
Xavier Vilalta: Architecture at home in its community
Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places
Jeff Speck: The walkable city
Jake Barton: The museum of you
Alexa Meade: Your body is my canvas
Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper
Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockelford: In the key of genius
Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
Jinsop Lee: Design for all 5 senses
Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet?
Kate Stone: DJ decks made of... paper
Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Cloudy with a chance of joy
Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers
Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon
Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people
Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake
Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of
Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist
Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking
Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city
Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps
Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears
Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards
A sense of humor about Afghanistan? Artist Aman Mojadidi shows how
Neil Harbisson: I listen to color
Tracy Chevalier: Finding the story inside the painting
William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
John Hockenberry: We are all designers
John Hodgman: Design, explained
Frank Warren: Half a million secrets
Mark Raymond: Victims of the city
Scott Summit: Beautiful artificial limbs
Kelli Anderson: Design to challenge reality
Jer Thorp: Make data more human
Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you
Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound
Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?
Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit
Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter
Bjarke Ingels: Hedonistic sustainability
Richard Seymour: How beauty feels
John Hunter on the World Peace Game
Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture
Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn
Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture