TEDxWakefield
New Directions in Placemaking
Starts: July 13 2011 6:00pm
Ends: July 13 2011 8:00pm
Where: The Orangery, Back Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TG
We’d like to invite you to TEDxWakefield: New Directions in Placemaking, a free evening of ideas, debate and networking which will explore the latest thinking and activity in place-making - policy, community involvement, good design, and the arts.
TEDx Wakefield - Confirmed Speakers:
Stephen Feber, Curator of the Future at London Transport Museum, owner of Stephen Feber Ltd, and Former CEO of Magna. Stephen develops social enterprises from an idea to the finished project. He also designs and develops museums and exhibitions. Current projects include a low carbon mixed use social enterprise development, Heartlands, in Cornwall. The 15 acre development includes a park, new village centre, energy generation systems, children’s centre, visitor centre, artists’ studios, live work units, new market squares and housing. Current cultural projects also include acting as Curator of the Future for the London Transport Museum for the Sense & the City exhibition, Connected Communities with the RSA, work with the BBC and RCA on the Connected Home project and a number of other design initiatives, including a recent collaboration with BDP, Manchester to re-imagine (light and animate) Oxford Road.
Past projects have included the first children’s museum in the UK, Eureka! and the Stirling Prize winning Magna Science Adventure Centre in South Yorkshire, where he was the founding Director. View Stephen’s TED profile. View Stephen’s Blog
Professor Terry Hodgkinson CBE DL
Terry chaired the ground breaking Yorkshire Forward Renaissance Panel prior to taking up the post as Chair of Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency for Yorkshire and Humber for seven years. As Chair, he oversaw the agency grow the economy of Yorkshire and Humber, and was responsible for an annual budget of £360m approximately a third of which contributed to the place making agenda Terry is passionate about great design, architecture, heritage and place making. He is an advocate of continuous learning and training, and he considers inspirational leadership to be a quality that influences growth and development of people in all aspects of their lives. Read more about Terry
Jamie Saunders is a Strategy Coordinator based in the Chief Executive’s Office at the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council. He has worked at the Council since 1992 and for the last 2 years has had a primary focus on whole systems, organisational and District sustainability - beyond ‘greening’ - supporting senior management, colleagues, partners and others in strategic thinking, planning, operations and cultural change. Alongside helping the Council and others face current significant challenges, Jamie is working as part of the efforts in developing a new set of organisational ambitions, operating models and ways of working focussed on the organisation as the democratic leader of place and community for Bradford District.
A qualified futurist, he has an MA in Foresight and Futures Studies (Leeds Metropolitan University) as well as a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science and Geography. He is an adviser to the Permaculture Association (Britain), a national sustainable design charity, a current Academician, Academy of Urbanism and was involved in the DEFRA funded Greenhouse Britain eco-art project by the Harrison Studio. More about Jamie.
In addition the following talks from the TEDTalks online collection will also be screened at this event:
Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral
A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station ... And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light. Thomas Heatherwick is the founder of Heatherwick Studio, an architecture and design firm that, among other projects, designed the astonishing “Seed Cathedral” for the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010.
Mitchell Joachim: Don’t build your home, grow it!
TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and—wait for it—meat. Soft cars, jet packs and houses made of meat are all in a day’s work for urban designer, architect and TED Fellow Mitchell Joachim.
Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the “mesh”
At TED@MotorCity, Lisa Gansky, author of “The Mesh,” talks about a future of business that’s about sharing all kinds of stuff, either via smart and tech-enabled rental or, more boldly, peer-to-peer. Examples across industries—from music to cars—show how close we are to this meshy future. Lisa Gansky is the author of “The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing,” and the instigator behind the Mesh Directory
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About TED & TEDx:
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences—the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer—TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx.
TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxWakefield, where x=independently organized TED event.
TEDxWakefield is an independent TEDx event operated under license from TED. At the event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
