POP Tech

Marian Bantje-

I chose Marian because we saw her work in class (100 Valentine's Day cards).

"Stop working for money...start working for love". I really love how passionate Marian is about her style of work. She talks about how she does what she loves and what makes her happy. Her attitude and style of work changed as she was faced "with her own mediocrity". I can relate to this, I feel like a lot of artists can who aren't sure yet exactly what their purpose is or what exactly they want to do with their talent and love for art and design.

"The more time we spend on something the more we honor it" because "sacrifice a part of ourselves for it".

"If you can create wonder... you've inspired curiosity"

Heather Fleming

Design thinking applied to global development.

"Engineers without borders". This video was about designing and getting useful technology to people who don't have access to this kind of design. There are thousands of engineers and designers who want to essentially do good design, who want to be involved in humanitarian work but their opportunity is limited to volunteering. Heather gives a short and to the point presentation. I think its important to get the ball rolling with something like this. Imagine if those thousands of designers and engineers and people like us got together and were able to design problem solving ideas and things for people who dont have much to use and benefit from.

Marije Vogelzang

This presentation was so great. It was so interesting and creative and inspiring. Marjie is a food designer she has her own company called Proef. She started out designing how the food looks and wound up creating art and installations that are edible. I think its brilliant. She is inspired by where the food comes from, who eats it, how its prepared. She talks a lot about a project she did in Lebanon and also how food can emotionally effect someone. So interesting she played off the concept of children not liking vegetables and how they have a negative feeling associated with food, so she created something thats a lot more appealing something that's more fun.

TED Talks

Sir Ken Robinson: Schools kill Creativity

Funny guy, takes a lighter approach but makes it clear how important creativity and our younger generations are. We have no idea what the future holds. When are you most vulnerable to creativity? When we don't know what the future holds for us. Creativity is equally as important as literacy. I love how he thinks adults should think more like children because children aren't afraid of being wrong or making mistakes. I also agree with what Ken believes about school focusing primarily on the left side of the brain and not enough on the creative side. "We are educating people out of their creative capacities". If every person were to take a bit of Ken's advice I think things in the world would change.

Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?

"The only way possible to construct sustainable homes and cities is connecting them to nature".

Rachel talks about using actual living "metabolic material"..protocells that grow and effectively benefiting architecture. I think its quite interesting that new technology like this is something that is actually so old and was here before we all were. I think this is a good example of doing good design and good design thinking. The example she uses is putting protocells that use carbon dioxide to create limestone. This type of process it similar to natural reefs and other natural occurring architecture around the world. Venice which is now a busy part of Italy built and running on wood on the sea. Something like these Protocells that Rachel talks about could fortify that wood and have other benefits other than just making sure the city doesn't sink one day.

Robert Full: Learning from the geckos tail.

We can learn a ton from nature. From a very close look at the way a gecko climbs up 90 degree surfaces, Robert Full creates a robot that can climb up walls and other surfaces. Pretty brilliant, there are so many ways to learn and create from what nature has already created for us and around us.

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