A bird’s-eye view of the Vancouver Convention Centre, complete with spinning globe and “The Next Chapter” stairway. Photo: Bret Hartman
The second and third days of TED2014 have been tremendous—a mind-bending exercise in crackling new ideas and rethinking old ones. Here, a visual spin through the conference so far.
TED Fellow Uldus Bakhtiozina shares her beautiful, surreal photography. Photo: Ryan Lash
Chris Hadfield, whose TED Talk was posted today, signs books. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis lost her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombing. Today, she danced for the first time since, thanks to a high-tech prosthetic created by Hugh Herr’s lab at MIT. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Edward Snowden walks through TED2014, interacting with attendees. Photo: Bret Hartman
TED’s own Tom Reilly is presented with a puppet of himself during the TED Fellows sessions. Photo: Ryan Lash
Citi for Cities is helping metropolises solve problems. At their kiosk at TED, attendees create digital art by riding a Citi Bike. The harder they pedal, the more the color and pattern changes. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
TED co-founder Richard Saul Wurman talks about seeing his “baby” turn 30, in a short conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
TEDx organizers snowshoe to their workshops on top of Grouse Mountain. Photo: Bret Hartman
David Sengeh is, coincidentally, a member of Hugh Herr’s team at the MIT Media Lab. He is dedicated to offering good options to amputees in his home country of Sierra Leone. Photo: Ryan Lash
Imogen Heap visits the Jawbone Internet of You Café, to demo her musical gloves. The gloves let her activate music around her, and even change the treatments on her captivating voice. Photo: Bret Hartman
Chris Anderson interviews Bill and Melinda Gates, asking them about their lives as a couple and as parents. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
The underbelly of the TED2014 pop-up theater. Photo: Ryan Lash
Translators from TED’s Open Translation Project throw up their hats after a workshop at TEDActive 2014 in Whistler. Photo: Marla Aufmuth
An animation station, courtesy of TED-Ed, in Whistler. Photo: Sarah Nickerson
Shih Chieh Huang creates sculptures that seem like living bioluminescent sea creatures. Photo: Ryan Lash
At the Skype Studio, Helen Walters interviews Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer and many others about Connection, Crowd-funding and Creativity. Photo: Bret Hartman
Dance time at TEDActive 2014. Photo: Marla Aufmuth