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Liz Ogbu: What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?

Liz Ogbu is an architect who works on spatial justice: the idea that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources and services is a human right. In San Francisco, she's questioning the all too familiar story of gentrification: that poor people will be pushed out by development and progress. "Why is it that we treat cu...
https://www.ted.com/talks/liz_ogbu_what_if_gentrification_was_about_healing_communities_instead_of_displacing_them

Nathaniel Kahn | TED Speaker

Nathaniel Kahn is an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated maker of documentary films. His journey to understand his distant father -- the legendary modern architect Louis Kahn -- became the film "My Architect."
Filmmaker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nathaniel_kahn

T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison: The most powerful woman you've never heard of

Everyone's heard of Martin Luther King Jr. But do you know the woman Dr. King called "the architect of the civil rights movement," Septima Clark? The teacher of some of the generation's most legendary activists -- like Rosa Parks, Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer and thousands more -- Clark laid out a blueprint for change-making that has stood the t...
https://www.ted.com/talks/t_morgan_dixon_and_vanessa_garrison_the_most_powerful_woman_you_ve_never_heard_of

Brandon Clifford | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Brandon Clifford mines knowledge from the past to design new futures.
Ancient technology architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/brandon_clifford

John Kerry and Al Gore: The US is back in the Paris Agreement. What's next?

On his first day as president, Joe Biden signed a letter of acceptance that set in motion the 30-day process for the United States to re-join the Paris Agreement on climate. On the day the US returns to the accord, John Kerry, the US Special Envoy for Climate, sits down with Nobel Laureate Al Gore to discuss the make-or-break decade ahead of us....
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_kerry_and_al_gore_the_us_is_back_in_the_paris_agreement_what_s_next

John Cary: How architecture can create dignity for all

If architect and writer John Cary has his way, women will never need to stand in pointlessly long bathroom lines again. Lines like these are representative of a more serious issue, Cary says: the lack of diversity in design that leads to thoughtless, compassionless spaces. Design has a unique ability to dignify and make people feel valued, respe...
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_cary_how_architecture_can_create_dignity_for_all

Christian Benimana: The next generation of African architects and designers

Christian Benimana wants to build a network of architects who can help Africa's booming cities flourish in sustainable, equitable ways -- balancing growth with values that are uniquely African. From Nigeria to Burkina Faso and beyond, he shares examples of architecture bringing communities together. A pan-African movement of architects, designer...
https://www.ted.com/talks/christian_benimana_the_next_generation_of_african_architects_and_designers

Takaharu Tezuka | TED Speaker

Architect Takaharu Tezuka creates imaginative and versatile personal spaces.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/takaharu_tezuka

Kedra Newsom Reeves | TED Speaker

BCG's Kedra Newsom Reeves is a managing director and partner at the company's Chicago office, with a focus on financial services and the public sector.
Wealth equity strategist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kedra_newsom_reeves

Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears

Because of poor acoustics, students in classrooms miss 50 percent of what their teachers say and patients in hospitals have trouble sleeping because they continually feel stressed. Julian Treasure sounds a call to action for designers to pay attention to the “invisible architecture” of sound.
https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_why_architects_need_to_use_their_ears

Mark Raymond | TED Speaker

Mark Raymond’s work as an architect in Trinidad and Tobago is founded on the belief that thoughtfully designed cities can foster sustainability and inclusiveness throughout a society.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/mark_raymond

Siamak Hariri | TED Speaker

Siamak Hariri holds deep respect for the transformative potential of architecture, specializing in creating works of enduring value.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/siamak_hariri

Jon Nguyen | TED Speaker

Jon Nguyen is an award winning aeronautics and graphics engineer at NASA.
Engineer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jon_nguyen

Daniel Libeskind | TED Speaker

Being a designer of breathtaking and sometimes confounding buildings seems almost a footnote to the amazing life of architect Daniel Libeskind.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/daniel_libeskind

Xavier De Kestelier | TED Speaker

Xavier De Kestelier is an architect and technologist with a passion for human space exploration.
Architect, technologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/xavier_de_kestelier

Alejandro Aravena | TED Speaker

Alejandro Aravena works inside paradoxes, seeing space and flexibility in public housing, clarity in economic scarcity, and the keys to rebuilding in the causes of natural disasters. He
Urban architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alejandro_aravena

Madrid in pictures: an architect shares his Spain

29-year-old Iñaki Romero Larrea describes himself as an "urbanist before architect." As one of the five members of design and architecture collective Paisaje Transversal, he is particularly interested in figuring out how to revitalize Spain's cities without indulging in the time-consuming traditional bid process or incurring exorbitant construct...
Posted September 22, 2013
https://ideas.ted.com/through-the-eyes-of-an-architect-madrid-in-pictures

Lucy McRae | TED Speaker

Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, Lucy McRae is fascinated by the human body, and how it can be shaped by technology.
Body architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/lucy_mcrae

Ellen Dunham-Jones | TED Speaker

Ellen Dunham-Jones takes an unblinking look at our underperforming suburbs -- and proposes plans for making them livable and sustainable.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ellen_dunham_jones

Doris Kim Sung | TED Speaker

Doris Kim Sung is a biology student turned architect interested in thermo-bimetals, smart materials that respond dynamically to temperature change.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/doris_kim_sung

John Cary | TED Speaker

An architect by training, John Cary has devoted his career to expanding the practice of design for the public good.
Design ambassador
https://www.ted.com/speakers/john_cary

Shigeru Ban | TED Speaker

Most people look at cardboard tubes and see something fit for the recycling bin. But architect Shigeru Ban turns them into beautiful buildings.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/shigeru_ban

Kotchakorn Voraakhom | TED Speaker

Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect who works on building green public space that tackle climate change.
Urban landscape architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kotchakorn_voraakhom

Bjarke Ingels | TED Speaker

Bjarke Ingels believes that architecture is the art and science of making sure our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/bjarke_ingels

Michael Hansmeyer | TED Speaker

Michael Hansmeyer is an architect and programmer who explores the use of algorithms and computation to generate architectural form.
Computational architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/michael_hansmeyer

Neri Oxman | TED Speaker

From the micro scale to the building scale, Neri Oxman imagines and creates structures and objects that are inspired, informed and engineered by, for and with nature.
Architect, designer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/neri_oxman

Rahul Mehrotra | TED Speaker

Rahul Mehrotra is an architect working in India who focuses on institutional buildings and conservation of historic places. He is also a professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Architect, urbanist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rahul_mehrotra

Elon Musk | TED Speaker

Elon Musk is the CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).
Serial entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/elon_musk

Alison Killing | TED Speaker

An architect and urban designer, Alison Killing uses journalism, filmmaking and exhibitions to help people better understand the built environment.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alison_killing

Anna Heringer | TED Speaker

Anna Heringer’s sustainable designs lend breathtaking forms to easily-available local materials while developing the skills and consciousness of their builders.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/anna_heringer
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