“There’s a myth in most cultures about following your dreams. It’s called the ‘hero’s journey.’ I prefer another myth off to the side of that, or underneath it maybe. It’s called the ‘misfit’s myth’.” A misfit, as Lidia Yuknavitch explains in the opening words of her TED Talk, is “a person […]
Personalise this! The customization of healthcare, with medicine tailor-made for each individual patient, belongs to the main research interests of current affairs. In this model, doctors aim to select appropriate therapies based on the context of a patient’s genetics. The patient, which Salvatore Iaconesi points out in our TED talk […]
Not every work of art can be a masterpiece – which is why we have to reconsider the role of the near win and the art of failure, says author, curator and art historian Sarah Lewis. Her TED Talk of the Week explains, why she thinks that “the creative process […]
When we say urban development, we usually think about brushing up existing aspects of a city – but ask yourself: what if we could design a whole new city (within a city) from scratch? The Seestadt Aspern district in Vienna is doing exactly that – and more. They’re not just […]
An invention describes (the process of creating) something novel that has never been made before. A tradition on the other hand is a belief or behavior passed down within society over generations, with origins in the past. You think this sounds like a paradox? Well, you couldn’t be more wrong. […]
Make some tea with sugar. Let it cool down, then add kombucha and vinegar. Cover it up, wait for 2 to 4 weeks and: Congratulations! You’ve just grown your own cloth. In our talk of the week, Suzanne Lee illustrates her motivations for finding alternatives to conventional fabric production – […]
Space travel has become en vogue again. Thanks to the critically acclaimed efforts of Christopher Nolans blockbuster Interstellar, ideas of empowering human expeditions across the universe are gathering interest at high speed – and as Stuart Armstrong pointed out at TEDxVienna 2014: “The sky is most definitely not the limit.”
When you think of escaping, you want to go away from what you currently have, where you momentarily are. For us Europeans, the furthest one could think of might be the other end of the world – Australia. While travelling to the distant continent, though, experiences are not limited to […]
At TEDxVienna, we care not just about spreading ideas presented at our talks. Our bloggers challenge themselves regularly with the quest of finding interesting stories and curious pieces of information which strike a chord – with you. Thanks to the invention of #TBT we now get the chance to look […]
This year is coming to a close. In December, TEDxVienna was all about rewinding ourselves – because every end is also a new beginning. Since we already neglected the traditional New Year’s Resolutions as an outdated cliché, we’d like to present 5 easy steps that will help you to prepare for a new […]