In her New Orleans neighborhood, artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang turned an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard asking a fill-in-the-blank question: "Before I die I want to ___." Her neighbors' answers -- surprising, poignant, funny -- became an unexpected mirror for the community. (What's your answer?)

Looking to unwind? Here are seven enlightening and rejuvenating TED talks for your day in.

Candy Chang creates art that prompts people to think about their secrets, wishes and hopes -- and then share them. She is a TED Senior Fellow.

Death is a topic that is relevant to us all, and yet it simply isn’t pleasant to talk about. These speakers offer subtle reframes to help us face this fact of life more thoughtfully and with greater compassion.

These TED Talks will help you conjure up massive amounts of gratitude.

Not sure what to do with your one precious life? These talks help you find the path that only you could take.

No need to panic: Take a deep breath, and power through your moments of doubt and burnout with the help of these talks.

The TED Fellows are an extraordinary group of 350+ artists, scientists, entrepreneurs and more — each at the beginning of a landmark career. Below, watch the most-viewed talks from these unusual trailblazers, each with a unique idea to share.

Sayonara 2010s! Enjoy this look back on which popular TED Talks caught our attention from 2010 to 2019.

A thoughtful selection of engaging TED Talks, translated into 40+ languages thanks to our wonderful TED Translators community!

In her public art pieces, Candy Chang uses low-tech tools such as chalk, Post-it notes, and stickers to help people make their cities more user-friendly. We sat down with Candy to ask her more ... Candy asks: If you could ask one question to all of your neighbors, what would you ask? Click here to respond on Facebook now! Or join Candy'...

When artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang first installed "Before I Die" -- a public artwork that invites passers-by to share their life’s wishes on the side of an abandoned New Orleans building -- she had no idea that the project would become a global phenomenon. Over the last two and a half years, people have taken it upon themselves to c...

TED Fellow Candy Chang creates art installations that are interactive, in a chalk and marker sense of the word. In this talk given at TEDGlobal 2012, Candy gave an emotional glimpse at the installation “Before I Die I Want To _______,” which she created last year in her neighborhood in New Orleans. Inspired by the death of a dear friend, Ca...

Photo: Ryan Lash It was an emotional two sessions at the TED Fellows talks today at the Lyceum Theatre. The audience thrilled to the musical virtuosity of guitarist Usman Riaz and violinist Robert Gupta & Joshua Roman, cheered the political courage of artist Bahia Shehab, marvelled at the ingenuity of Sheref Mansy and Max Little's ...

At TED University Session 2 this morning, we discovered the science behind our smiles, witnessed a tale of a valiant shoe rescue, and heard about the "rich seed beds of serendipity." Here are just a few of the highlights: Googler Amit Sood used his "20 percent" time to develop the  Google Art Project, which transports us to museums of the...

Great design doesn’t just look good -- it has the potential to make lives easier and to enhance the public good. Public Interest Design, the website dedicated to examining how, has created a list of 100 makers, educators, connectors, policymakers and visualizers in the U.S. who are doing incredible work at the intersection of design and serv...

Lucianne Walkowicz, speaking at the TEDGlobal 2011 TED Fellows Talks, Monday, July 11, 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Lars Jan, transmedia director: Lars creates multimedia performances that questions the boundaries between truth and fiction. Collaborating with "Paul," a character that operates in the rea...

Designer + urban planner

Over the past week, we’ve noticed a lot of TED-related news items in the ether. Here, some highlights: A fascinating new article in Wired takes a look at 12-year-old Paloma Noyola Bueno, a schoolgirl in Mexico whose classroom got an intense shake-up from teacher Sergio Juárez Correa, with incredible results. So what inspired Correa to rethi...

What ideas captured people's attention and took off the quickest in 2020? Here are the talks that intrigued and propelled us to the end of this world-shifting year.

At the recent TED Fellows Retreat in Whistler, Canada, artist Candy Chang set up an interactive art piece called Confessions that invited the 185 Fellows at the event to share. The installation asked each Fellow to write down a confession on a slip of paper and pin it up on a bulletin board, creating a public wall of admissions and fears. ...

We're thrilled to announce the 19 members of 2011's TED Fellows class. Founded in January 2009, the TED Fellows program handpicks world-changing innovators from around the globe, and brings them to the TED stage – literally and figuratively – to raise international awareness of their remarkable work. TED also announces today its 2011 Senior ...

Who doesn't love love? A collection of talks for those who can't get enough of it.

Monday on the TED Fellows stage, Tom Rielly did something unprecedented in the history of the Fellows -- he singled out one for recognition. Presenting the newly minted TED Fellows Hero award to Iranian-British filmmaker Taghi Amirani, he said, "This person has gone above and beyond in writing, participating, a certain amount of kvetching, m...

After watching these charming talks, it'll feel like love is always just around the corner.

8 TED speakers show you how to nudge your mind toward the sunny side We all go through times when we see the world through cloudy-colored glasses. Times when it’s tempting to just climb into bed -- or bathtub -- and hide out, maybe for up to a month. Fortunately for your loved ones, your livelihood and your life, we’ve gathered together eight t...

Photo: James Duncan Davidson The TED Prize Wish, revealed today at TED2012, asks global citizens to help the world's cities to become inclusive, innovative, healthy, soulful and thriving. To help make this happen, TED is offering an online platform that will allow people to sign up, register skills and interest, and connect with each othe...

Jill Sobule isn't just another singer-songwriter with catchy tunes and smart lyrics, she's one of the more insightful satirists of our age. Each of her fanciful songs captures an issue or irony, an emotion or epiphany that helps us understand what it's like to live now.

Lope Gutiérrez-Ruiz’s eye-popping magazines and celebrated festivals are creating “pathways to coexistence and tolerance.” Interactive Fellows Friday Feature: Join the conversation by answering Fellows’ weekly questions via Facebook. This week, Lope  asks: What do organized communities achieve more efficiently than government? What could ...

Photo: Ryan Lash At the Lyceum Theatre today, the TEDGlobal 2012 Fellows brought audiences to their feet with two sessions of astonishing and moving talks before TEDGlobal 2012 mainstage sessions began. Here's the rundown: Usman Riaz, musician & artist Usman plays guitar like an introverted genius alien from another planet who lande...