Theme: Breaking Boundaries

With this years theme ‚breaking boundaries’ we want to not only break boundaries, but we want to find out where they are coming from. We often follow rules, boundaries and structures, of which we don’t know who invented them or why they were created. But what if they are not rules but suggestions and we can decide if we follow or not. Which boundaries are meaningful and reasonable and which ones should be broken and reconsidered?
TEDxDornbirn thinks it is time to take a closer look at all kind of boundaries. To question them and maybe even break them.

Spielboden Dornbirn
Färbergasse 15
Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, 6850
Austria

The Bottle Boys

Musicians

The Bottle Boys are going to take you through their own journey of creativity, persistence, and the inability to accept limitations, in a talk about not seeing the world for what it is, but for what it can be. Get ready for a unique story, with some very unique live music.

Ari Versluis

Photographer, Artist

Ari is a dutch photographer who dedicates a lot of his time to discovering the contradiction between individuality and uniformity. By taking pictures of different people at different times and places and looking for visible attributes these people might share, he is able to filter out an assumed group identity others wouldn’t see. Ari will share his experience he has made with his project Exactitudes and will enable our guests to question the borders between our individual identity and group identity.

Dheeraj Pasham

Astrophysicist

Dheeraj Pasham aka DJ is an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Boston where he pursues research searching for and studying one of nature's most bizarre creations known as black holes.

Dominik Klug

Doctor

Dominik Klug is a 24 year old so called „Gsiberger“ (born in Vorarlberg) and currently, he is studying at the medical university of Innsbruck. But this isn’t the reason why Dominik will be a speaker at TEDxDornbirn2017. Moreover, it is for his dedication to take children’s fear of all the scary stuff medical care reminds us of. As almost all of us know how scary a dentist can be we are happy to have Dominik with us to break down some fears.

Josefin Ekermann

Filmmaker

Josefin grew up with a Peruvian father and a Swedish mother. Since a very young age she was told stories about her aunt Augusta that founded the Peruvian guerrilla movement Shining Path. Augusta was the heroine, the family jewel, the untouchable. When Josefin took part in a documentary where she discovered Peru’s history she found other stories and realised that nothing would ever be the same again. She scratched unhealed wounds, crossed unspoken boundaries and started a 4 year long family war.

Louis Suttmann

Teacher

Louis is an american living in Salzburg, Austria. It was the time when Louis moved to Salzburg when he realized that he doesn‘t even know his homecountry so he dicided to travel across the USA by his bike. Louis will tell us how to break personal boundaries and how he experienced his trip through the United States of America.

Maria Helena Heim

Teacher

If you are looking for a motivated, authentic person who is ambitions to take on future challenges by working with the future generation, please meet Mari. On TEDxDornbirn2017 she will share with us her incredible family story and her path of experiencing boundless love. Her three sisters, two brothers and Mari are all foster kids. In her family she has made the experience that love can be infinite, even if you are not related through blood. Family is a place of boundless love.

Mathias Frey

Sweet Sweet Moon, that’s first and foremost Vienna based multiinstrumentalist Matthias Frey. While his debut EP was shaped by a rather traditional guitar singer songwriter approach he has now accomplished to integrate his great skillset creating almost orchestral arrangements live on stage merly relying on a violin and his favourit sidekick – the loop pedal.

Ruben Salvadori

Photojournalist

Ruben Salvadori is an Italian media professional and photojournalist known for his project ‘Photojournalism Behind the Scenes’, through which he challenged the dramatic aesthetics of conflict images and the expectation of objective truth by including the photographer in the frame. He has ignited a discussion about the ethics of the profession and the need for the audience to be an active viewer by acknowledging the inevitable subjectivity of the photographic medium. Ruben has used photography to fulfill his anthropological interest, working on visual studies across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and America. His work has been published and presented internationally on media outlets such as The Atlantic, CBC, Business Insider, Die Zeit, Stern, Internazionale, European Photography. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Stefan Yazzie Herbert

Lightdesigner

Artificial light is something we use everyday and most of the time without even noticing it. Stefan Yazzie Herbert, one of this years speakers as TEDxDornbirn, is using light to create everything from an art show to large commercial projects to break through our understanding of how to use light. The young American-Austrian artist and designer will share his experience of several years designing with light and how light can be used to create light art that takes us in an illusionary world.