How to design the life you want | TEDx SHORTS

When Doreen Orishaba helped build Africa’s first electric car in 2011, skeptics dismissed it as a “toy for the Western world.” Now she’s running dozens of electric buses across Kenya and Rwanda, moving thousands of passengers to work every day on zero-exhaust vehicles powered by ...  Show more

Margaret Atwood is best known as the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, and she’s won a slew of awards for her novels, poetry collections, and children’s books. Now, at the age of 86, she’s written her first memoir, The Book of Lives. In this episode, Adam and Margaret break down her ...  Show more

Offering tips from the well-known program he helped develop, Bill Burnett, executive director of Stanford’s Life Design Lab, illustrates the ways design thinking can be used to help build the life we want. This talk was filmed at TEDxStanford. All TEDx events are organized indepe ...  Show more

Offering tips from the well-known program he helped develop, Bill Burnett, executive director of Stanford’s Life Design Lab, illustrates the ways design thinking can be used to help build the life we want. This talk was filmed at TEDxStanford. All TEDx events are organized indepe ...  Show more

Designers Mark Erickson and Matthew Kennedy look at how intergenerational housing around the world can inspire innovative ways to craft a living space.This talk was filmed at TEDxYYC. All TEDx events are organized independently by volunteers in the spirit of TED's mission of idea ...  Show more

Cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths shows how we can apply the logic of computers to untangle tricky human problems using three practical strategies. This talk was filmed at TEDxSydney. All TEDx events are organized independently by volunteers in the spirit of TED's mission of idea ...  Show more