“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 […]
Efficiency is fashionable. Billions of Euros are being committed to increasing it. Why? When it comes to energy there is a whole spectrum of benefits: increased security, reduced poverty, job creation and many more. TEDx found out how Vienna is handling these issues and what our future could look like […]
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 […]
Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome. One year ago, TEDxVienna went on an excursion to check out several special buildings that opened their doors to the public during the inaugural Open House event. Thanks to the success and positive feedback, the project is returning on 12th and 13th of September to reproduce this feat – with […]
Why does an open mind towards failure lead us towards success? Can we educate our children in the value out of true grit by teaching Star Trek at school? Keep reading and listen to our TED Talk of the Week to find out. Our society is maintained by feedback-loops that […]
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.”