TED Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/ted/ Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:27:47 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations https://ounodesign.com/2011/10/22/geoffrey-west-the-surprising-math-of-cities-and-corporations/ https://ounodesign.com/2011/10/22/geoffrey-west-the-surprising-math-of-cities-and-corporations/#respond Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:27:47 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=12772

Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations. How come it’s so hard to kill a city?

There is an interesting discussion of West’s idea in the NYT.

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Brilliant talk showing that apathy is not an individual failing but rather is constructed by cultural and civic barriers that aim to stifle your participation. Dave Meslin is funny and he’s right. You may enjoy his comparison between the way city halls bury development notices in publications and the way Nike sells shoes – if city hall really wanted your input, it would communicate differently with you.

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I can forgive Paola Antonelli for liking Karim Rashid because I love her. She’s the design curator at the MoMA in NYC and she has this amazing knack for animating our built and designed environment in an entertaining and charming way while also lightly inserting some very serious remarks about its history and politics.

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