Archive for month: October, 2012
Never grow up is our theme for today. Today is the day to eat from a Happy Meal lunchbox, to hop around and shake to the lunchbeats, to make some new friends, to play games, kick some balloons and forget about the reality of the world.
It’s a day in Neverland and you’re Peter or Tinkerbell today. Almost a year of preparations, brainstorming and having fun along the way have brought us to the Big Day. Your five sense are to be thrilled. Your imagination is about to take on a soaring flight. Sit back, but don’t relax – engage with everything and everyone around you.
Floris Visser postulates that scientists are artists – and his opinion hit a nerve for me.
Too often, we seem to draw a line between the professions and interests. However, when we take a step back, there are common grounds. Just like artists, scientists need to be very creative people in order to make discoveries and advance their field.
The very essence of science is as creative as art – but also the outcome and the observations in science can show an artistic beauty. You might think, for example, of beautiful repetitive patterns in nature, which can either inspire scientists and researchers to take a similar step (remember the bacteria in self-healing concrete that are inspired by the terraces of Pamukkale?) or can inspire artists to achieve, amongst others, the perfect proportions which we see repeated in nature.
This is day -1 for #TEDxDelft – only one day before lift-off. Be sure to keep an eye on our website, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook etc because we will be buzzing TEDxDelft today as well.
Never stop asking questions, never stop wondering, always think of other ways to face challenges, always question why things are the way they are, keep wondering, keep on learning, always stay young, never stop dreaming, never stop doing, creativity by playing, work=play, gamification, living the dream.
What do you mean, this TEDxDelft cannot be done?
We’ve introduced Erik Schlangen as Professor “Experimental Micromechanics”. But what does that really mean, and where does he wants the research of his group to result in? In his own words: he wants their inventions to show up when you Google for “future materials”.
Only after two nights of sleep from now we will celebrate TEDxDelft together. Two more days to grow older but don’t you dare to grow up!
We are all very very very very excited. Check our mobile site http://m.tedxdelft.nl for the program, twitterstream and bio’s of our performers. Enjoy the performances. Meet new people. Play Pong. Dance on the Lunchbeats. Check out the grab bag. Have fun!
October 5th will be a fantastic day of BIG ideas, see you then! Read more
Never grow up, so…. no suits and ties! The uniform of TEDxDelft is a smile and an optimistic attitude. So enjoy the occasion and dress casual. Be a fantastic audience. Leave your particles, be a wave. Do not walk out, do not leave; it is a too mind-blowing experience to miss. Don’t be shy. Do not leave anyone standing alone. This is part of the magic of the TEDx concept. Think of it as intellectual speed dating.
Remember: it is hard to have a ‘TED moment’ while you are checking your work emails. This is a day for BIG thinking, so don’t let tomorrow’s to-dos get in your brain’s way.
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In this short video, a courageous autistic women gives us a view in her mostly non-verbal way. She describes how she communicates with her entire surroundings, while those who do not speak her language, describe her as being on her own.
An advertising creative who hates ads; a woman with Asperger’s syndrome who – literally – lets us take a look inside her head; a world famous floral artist who makes incredible creations from flowers; a robot with a solution to the ageing population; an artist who performs mini-films as pop songs; a businessman who wants to colonise Mars: All of this and more, as well as TV and theatre personality Aldith Hunkar, form the ingredients of TEDxDelft, which will take place on 5 October in the Aula at TU Delft. Read more
Een reclamemaker die een hekel heeft aan reclame. Een 18-jarige met de oplossing voor de ‘plastic soup’. Een wereldberoemde ‘floral artist’ die belevingen maakt van bloemen. Een roboticus die de oplossing voor de vergrijzing heeft. Een promovendus met de oplossing voor de Nederlandse democratie. Een ondernemer die Mars wil koloniseren. Dit alles en meer, gepresenteerd door tv en theaterpersoonlijkheid Aldith Hunkar, vormen de ingrediënten van TEDxDelft, dat op 5 oktober in de Aula van de TU Delft plaats vindt. Read more
Four more days until the day we will be celebrating the child in ourselves. Four more days to:
- Read all about our 19 performers and host
- Check, bookmark and homescreen the smartphone TEDxDelft program
- Share your excitement on Twitter, Facebook etc
- Not Grow Up