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TED Design — 84 episodes

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What can we learn from shortcuts? : Tom Hulme

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Alison Killing What happens when a city runs out of room for its dead

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Chip Kidd: The art of first impressions — in design and life

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LaToya Ruby Frazier: A visual history of inequality in industrial America

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Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is ... noticing

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Roman Mars: Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed

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Elora Hardy: Magical houses, made of bamboo

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Takaharu Tezuka: The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen

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Alison Killing: There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help

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Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art

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Marc Kushner: Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by ... you

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Brian Dettmer: Old books reborn as intricate art

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Tom Wujec: Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast

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Daniele Quercia: Happy maps

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Dave Troy: Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations

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Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the pro

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Moshe Safdie: How to reinvent the apartment building

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Uldus Bakhtiozina: Wry photos that turn stereotypes upside down

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Dan Barasch: A park underneath the hustle and bustle of New York City

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Aziza Chaouni: How I brought a river, and my city, back to life

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Janet Iwasa: How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis

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Margaret Gould Stewart: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others,

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Shih Chieh Huang: Sculptures that'd be at home at the bottom of the ocean

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ikolai Begg: A tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery

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Robert Full: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots

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Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near win

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Hamish Jolly: A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think)

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David Epstein: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?

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Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore

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Aparna Rao: Art that craves your attention

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Teddy Cruz: How architectural innovations migrate across borders

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Luke Syson: How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art

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Krista Donaldson: The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives

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Enrique Peñalosa: Why buses represent democracy in action

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Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind

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Xavier Vilalta: Architecture at home in its community

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Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places

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Jeff Speck: The walkable city

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Jake Barton: The museum of you

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Alexa Meade: Your body is my canvas

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Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper

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Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockelford: In the key of genius

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Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets

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Jinsop Lee: Design for all 5 senses

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Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet?

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Kate Stone: DJ decks made of... paper

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Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Cloudy with a chance of joy

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Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers

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Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon

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Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people

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Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake

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Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of

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Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.

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Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist

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Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking

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Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair

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Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city

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Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries

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Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps

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Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears

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Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards

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A sense of humor about Afghanistan? Artist Aman Mojadidi shows how

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Neil Harbisson: I listen to color

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Tracy Chevalier: Finding the story inside the painting

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William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes

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John Hockenberry: We are all designers

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John Hodgman: Design, explained

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Frank Warren: Half a million secrets

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Mark Raymond: Victims of the city

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Scott Summit: Beautiful artificial limbs

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Kelli Anderson: Design to challenge reality

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Jer Thorp: Make data more human

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Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you

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Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound

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Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?

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Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit

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Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter

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Bjarke Ingels: Hedonistic sustainability

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Richard Seymour: How beauty feels

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John Hunter on the World Peace Game

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Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness

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Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture

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Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn

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Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture