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Hassina Sherjan

Hassina Sherjan is a consummate professional with over twenty-one years of knowledge and experience in education, business, communication, and journalism. Hassina is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aid Afghanistan for Education, and the Ow

By Payal Arora on November 20, 2011

Human Nature Forecast: Koert van Mensvoort

Design philosopher Koert van Mensvoort explores the boundaries between nature and culture and investigates the influence of technology in this Human Nature Forecast.

By Sanne van der Beek on November 7, 2011

Follow-up: Butterflyworks

Change the world, one design at a time. That’s what Emer Beamer from Butterflyworks does. And we’ll tell you how.

By Barbara Putman Cram… on May 27, 2011

Video: Rogier van der Heide “Healing light”

And then there was light. No, literally, Rogier van der Heide was controlling the stage light from the back of the main hall right up until his own TEDtalk. That’s quite a way to multitask! Rogier opens with a quote from Le Corbusier: “L

By Oliver de Leeuw on November 30, 2010

VIDEO: Fernando Gil de Oliveira “Now you see me, now you see… more!?”

What if you’re not that rich and you’re also colour blind? This remarkable speaker just presented his solution for at least one of these issues: the AUIRE device tells you what colour is in front of you. “A regular colour reader in

By Oliver de Leeuw on November 30, 2010

Video: Lonneke Gordijn “Dandelions for design”

Lonneke Gordijn took the stage at TEDxAmsterdam and started with a small story about when she was a little girl playing to be a horse, running through the fields, acquainting herself with the microscopic beauty of nature. Out of it all, she was intr

By Barbara Putman Cram… on November 30, 2010

Video: Emer Beamer “Fighting poverty by design”

Emer Beamer is one of the co-founders of Butterfly Works, an Amsterdam agency that works to solve the problem of poverty from a design perspective. Butterfly Works believes in co-design, that is, working together with those living in poverty in orde

By Simone McKenzie on November 30, 2010

TEDxAmsterdam book nominated for European Design Award!

The TEDxAmsterdam book that was put together for TEDxAmsterdam 2009 was a splendid production – and we are delighted to inform you that this fact has not gone unnoticed! We just got the wonderful news that the TEDxAmsterdam publication has been no

By Monique van Dusseld… on April 3, 2010

The T-Shirt

Each visitor of TEDxAmsterdam in 2009 received a special T-Shirt. Designed by Yassine and produced by Edun Live. We asked Yassine how he came up with the design. Yassine: “The idea for the TEDxAmsterdam t-shirt centers around the expression &

By Jim Stolze on January 15, 2010

VIDEO: Christien Meindertsma on PIG05049

TEDxAmsterdam: Christien Meindertsma from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. Christien Meindertsma’s fascinating talk at TEDxAmsterdam is based on her book PIG 05049, that documents an astounding array of products with different parts of an anonymous pig cal

By Monique van Dusseld… on December 1, 2009