Industrial design

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of industrial design.

Video playlists about Industrial design

Our future in cities

17 talks • 4h 20m
Humanity's future is the future of cities. Explore the crowded favelas, greened-up blocks and futuristic districts that could shape the future of cities -- and take a profane, hilarious side trip to the suburbs.

Things that build themselves

4 talks • 36:03
If you build it, they will come... But what happens when robots, buildings and other marvels can build themselves? These talks explore this (increasingly real) reality.

Talks about Industrial design

3:39

Caroline Weaver

Why the pencil is perfect

Posted Mar 2018
40:50

Elon Musk

The future we're building — and boring

Posted Apr 2017
13:44

Kevin Kelly

How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution

Posted Dec 2016
12:26

Olivier Scalabre

The next manufacturing revolution is here

Posted Aug 2016
17:14

Stephen Petranek

Your kids might live on Mars. Here's how they'll survive

Posted Apr 2016
9:22

Sean Follmer

Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it

Posted Feb 2016
16:26

Ole Scheeren

Why great architecture should tell a story

Posted Jan 2016
13:37

David Sedlak

4 ways we can avoid a catastrophic drought

Posted Jan 2016
12:50

Michel Laberge

How synchronized hammer strikes could generate nuclear fusion

Posted Apr 2014
16:01

Matthew Carter

My life in typefaces

Posted Apr 2014
5:58

Bastian Schaefer

A 3D-printed jumbo jet?

Posted Jul 2013
8:22

Skylar Tibbits

The emergence of "4D printing"

Posted Apr 2013
6:50

Erik Schlangen

A "self-healing" asphalt

Posted Feb 2013
14:45

Jonathan Trent

Energy from floating algae pods

Posted Sep 2012
11:35

Wolfgang Kessling

How to air-condition outdoor spaces

Posted Jun 2012
6:05

Marco Tempest

The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla

Posted Jun 2012
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Exclusive articles about Industrial design

Why simple is sexy again

In this excerpt from her new book, Courtney Martin reflects on the repercussions of a world filled with gizmo-laden gadgets … and shows how a simpler way is both possible and go...