This powerful wish asks us all to build the city that the future needs. Visit theCity2.Org to join in. Here’s the full text of this inspiring wish: I am the crucible of the future. I am where humanity will either flourish or fade. I am being built and rebuilt every day. I am inevitable. But […]
Three years ago Jill Tarter wished that everyone would become citizen scientists, and help take part in the quest to find intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. At TED2012, astronomer Arfon Smith presented a new part of the wish. The Allen Telescope Array is looking for signals from extra terrestrial intelligence on radio frequencies, and a […]
Cynthia Parr takes the stage to update us on a massive TED Prize project: The Encyclopedia of Life. Perhaps a quarter of TED talks feature living organisms. Whether it’s an urgent need for conservation or a creature that can teach us something, it’s obvious that you care deeply about biodiversity. And with your help we’ve made Ed Wilson’s […]
For the first time in the history of the TED Prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea. It is an idea upon which our planet’s future depends: The City 2.0. The City 2.0 is the city of the future… a future in which more than ten billion people on […]
This morning, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, was named one of three winners of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, in honor of her work promoting nonviolent change. Her co-awardees are peace activist Leymah Gbowee, also of Liberia, and Tawakul Karman, who works for democracy in Yemen. Just before last year’s TEDWomen conference, co-host Pat […]
TED curator Chris Anderson asks: First, if you haven’t seen it yet, watch the amazing TED Prize speech given by French street artist JR. He’s initiating a spectacular global art project that anyone can participate in. But how? This is up to the creative imagination of people around the world. Join this conversation with Chris […]
Posted from TED2011, happening now in California: JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more about his […]
In one month, the 2011 TED Prize winner, the amazing artist JR, will unveil his TED Prize wish live onstage in Long Beach. And you can sign up to watch along with him — and be among the first to join his new global project. Visit JR’s page on TEDPrize.org, and sign up for the […]
On Nov. 18, TEDsters gathered at the UN to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Charter for Compassion — Karen Armstrong’s 2008 TED Prize Wish. The event, TEDPrize@UN featured talks on compassion by a number of fascinating speakers. Watch the archive of the TEDPrize@UN webcast >> Photos from the event: Karen Armstrong: […]
Today, Thursday, Nov. 18, at 11 a.m. ET, join us in celebrating the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Charter for Compassion — Karen Armstrong’s 2008 TED Prize Wish. The event, TEDPrize@UN — hosted by the United Nations — will be streamed live over the web, and feature talks on compassion by a number […]
Want to know more about JR, the winner of 2011’s TED Prize? We did, and his team put together this video, above, with an overview of his work in his own words and images. And below, here’s an FAQ to answer the big questions. First: Who is JR? JR is an anonymous photographer and artist. […]
Randy Kennedy of the New York Times got an interview with JR, winner of the 2011 TED Prize, for this morning’s Times. From the story: Reached by telephone on Wednesday morning on a bus in Shanghai, where he was headed to work on a largely unauthorized photo-pasting project to draw attention to the city’s demolition […]
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/15686678] JR, a moving and innovative artist who exhibits freely in the world’s streets, has been named the recipient of the 2011 TED Prize — an award granting $100,000 and something much bigger: a wish to change the world with the support of the TED community. JR represents a new chapter in the TED Prize. […]
In the Huffington Post, Cameron Sinclair reports: Today is a very big day for my 2006 TED Prize. Thanks to this. It’s granted. Done. Finito. Complete. “This” is a brand-new iPad app called Open Architecture. It uses the power of Sinclair’s Open Architecture Network to help users discover and explore innovative building projects. Think of […]
Yesterday, the inaugural Abreu Fellows attended a simple lunchtime ceremony in Boston to commemorate their graduation. A year has passed since 10 amazing young musicians began the El Sistema USA program at New England Conservatory, learning all the skills they needed to follow in the footsteps of TEDPrize winner Maestro Jose Abreu. Using the example […]
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