Livestream @TEDxDelft, vrijdag 4 oktober 2013:
Livestream #TEDxDelft, vrijdag 4 oktober 2013 vanaf 9 tot 18 uur:
Our 2013 speakers/performers in chronological order:
9.00 Doors are open
9.15 Welcome to TEDxDelft
9.25 Jamal Mechbal – Fighting homelessness, my way
YoJamalMechbalu think you have it all – graduated from three different universities, a good job and a great marriage – and then it all falls apart. Your marriage ends, you lose your job and you become homeless. It happened to Jamal Mechbal and it can happen to all of us according to him.
It does not matter how you end up in this situation, what matters is how you deal with it. At TEDxDelft, Jamal will speak about his fascinating and inspiring story of being homeless and recovering from it. Read more
9.40 Rutger de Graaf – We’re running out of land, so let’s build on water
Rutger de GraafRutger is on a mission to make the world a more sustainable place by using creative, innovative, floating solutions to major problems such as flood risk, climate change and food scarcity. According to Rutger, one of the world’s biggest challenges is urbanisation. All over the world, people are moving from rural areas to cities.
Already a majority of people is living in cities, which are often vulnerable to flooding. The landshortage created by urbanisation, leads to shortage of resources such as food, fuel etc. One thing, Rutger says, the world has plenty of is water. Therefore his solution is to build cities on water. Read more
9.50 Damaris Matthijsen – Creating an economy that honors life
Damaris MatthijsenSocial entrepreneur Damaris Matthijsen’s personal philosophy in life is simple; understand yourself and trust your gut. Founder of the pioneering economic movement – Economy Transformers – Matthijsen’s journey began with disillusionment.
While studying to be a social worker in Driebergen, she went on a trip to Suriname for an internship. “I began to notice how the economic situation alienated the people. Even more so because Western concepts had been imposed on people out of context. It was the first time I realized the impact economy has on human life,” she says. It wasn’t just abroad; Matthijsen found that the economy had little regard for human life everywhere in the world. “I realized that even I was alienated by the economy. That every individual was relegated to second position – whether in a company where he has no share of profits or in a competitive environment where he has to push himself incessantly.” Read more
10.15 Scott Cunningham – Predicting the future and mapping the present
Scott Cunningham jokes that “Big Data” might be his fault. He began his career at telephone service provider AT&T, where he focused on using data to improve customer experiences. Now he wants to use data to predict the future. Born and raised in Georgia to English parents, Cunningham’s accent reflects his mixed roots. He completed his PhD in England and now lives in Delft with his French wife. His global background has influenced his career, as part of his research now focuses on the creation of social connections.
His most recent publication, Tech Mining, focuses on the prediction of new technologies and that is also the topic of his talk for TEDxDelft. Read more
10.30 Interview Boyan Slat
BoyanSlatAt TEDxDelft 2012, Boyan Slat captivated the audience with his idea for cleaning up marine litter. In a nutshell, he proposed to remove plastic from the oceans with the help of floating booms that run on natural energy. A green solution in more ways than one: no fossil fuels needed, no by-catch, and with clean oceans as well as a huge amount of potentially reusable plastic waste as an outcome. In fact, the process may well pay for itself – or even turn a profit – through the sale of that plastic. Read more
10.40 Coffee break
11.40 Carin Boersma – Flipping development from top down to listening
Carin BoersmaBinaries limit progress and create boundaries where there should be exchange. For Carin Boersma, Program Officer at Oxfam Novib, understanding this is the key to moving forward. “No one should assume that they know what is best for others. It is important to learn from each other and see what solutions others have to offer. If knowledge remains a one way process, it will be limited and not fruitful. There has to be an open and honest dialogue,”. While, she agrees that there already has been a change in attitude, she feels there’s still a long way to go. She will share her thoughts, knowledge and dreams with us that are needed to get there. Read more
11.55 Ben Bronsema – Air conditioning with wind, sun and water
portretbronsema_548x364-1Whoever said that “it’s not easy being green”, must have known what he or she was talking about. Of course, science has made some remarkable progress over the last decade when it comes to clean energy, but how many of those developed clean energy models have actually been integrated within the architecture of our homes and offices? (Power sockets excluded.).
We can hear you think, that stationing a big eco-friendly power plant on your rooftop would perhaps be a little too much, but somewhere in the nearby future you could consider to let nature take over the office building you work in! Read more
12.15 Matthew Rogers – The joy of failure
matthewMatthew Rogers combines strength, brains and musicality to battle the unexpected events in life. Matthew plays the didgeridoo, he is an attorney and a boxer.
You never know what life has in store for you, something Matthew has experienced, like all of us.
Using his musical talent, practicing sports and his (cum laude graduate) brain, he turned life’s experiences into a method, hoping that the TEDxDelft audience will benefit from it. Read more
12.30 Maarten Frens – What would you do if you were limitless?
MF-1Imagine if you were able to be the best at whatever you wanted! Be it mastering a language, working out complicated mathematical equations, or being able to paint with the skills of van Gogh or Rembrandt – it’s all attainable.
At this year’s TEDxDelft the world-renowned brain-professor dr. Maarten Frens will share his expertise and experiences with Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); a ground-breaking technique that could enable us to be, well… Limitless. In short, tDCS is a form of neurostimulation which uses constant, low current delivered directly to certain brain areas of interest.
So could we see a future where athletes get caught with using tDCS to enhance their talents at the 2016 Olympics? Or where students take cheating to an entirely new level? Read more
13.00 Lunch break and tramcar race
14.30 Marije Nie – One Million Steps, a tap dancing adventure
Marije Nie, foto Nellie de BoerMarije Nie is a musician with her feet, a dancing percussionist. Her tap dance style is the perfect symbiosis between music and dance. The rhythm dictates the movement and the movement determines the sound. She feels at home in many different kinds of music: jazz, improvisated music, worldmusic, (contemporary) classic music, experimental electronica and dance. With her skills for improvisation and her passion for experiments, she created her unique niche between composed and improvised music. At TEDxDelft she will present her tap dance adventure, the film One Million Steps. Read more
14.55 Gerwin Smit – Developing the lightest ever prosthetic hand
Current prostheses are far from perfect. They are too heavy, too hot, and do not provide sufficient sensory input. But Gerwin Smit might have changed that. His prosthesis is now known as “The Delft Cylinder Hand”.
However, it is not all about precision and light weight: looks really matter too. Gerwin Smit says that the prosthesis also needs to be nice to look at. “It’s all about the three C’s: cosmetics, comfort and control”. It seems that the “Delft Cylinder Hand” meets these requirements. Read more
15.25 Tangarine
Slide1Tangarine – aka the hardest working twin in The Netherlands – has captured the attention of many music lovers in The Netherlands and beyond.
The theme of TEDxDelft matches Sander & Arnout perfectly. ‘Do try this at home’, or in their case ‘Do try it all yourself’ was the credo of the guys for years. Playing everywhere where you could imagine one to play. From living rooms, to theatres, to festivals to community centres. They did it all themselves: creating a stage, selling tickets, being their own roadies, light- and soundmen. They even cleaned up after their gigs…. Read more
15.30 Anne Walraven – I’ve got a world changing mission
Anne WalravenIt is often said to ask the young because they know everything. However Anne Walraven is only 27 years old and on a personal quest based on a question. How? How is it possible that in 50 years’ time the Maldives will not exist anymore. Just simply disappearing under water. Gone. When this notion hit, Anne cried for 3 days and found herself confronted by 3 options: 1)get cynical and detach from the world 2) go to the Maldives on holiday, eat, drink and jump around while you still can without scuba gear 3) separate right from wrong, become an activist on hunger strike and chain herself to government buildings
Naturally she choose option 4. Read more
15.55 Interview Tim Zaman – 3D printing of paintings
Tim_ZamanZaman, 25, is pursuing a PhD in photothermal tomography at TU Delft. He’s no stranger to the TEDxDelft stage, haven spoken during the very first TEDxDelft event. During that event, he attached a camera to a helium-filled balloon and released it. During his talk, he showed footage from the camera.
As part of his PhD research Zaman worked on a project to recreate Dutch masters paintings using a 3D printer. The scanners in the printers can help clarify what the paintings looked like before they were damaged by time. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is using similar technology to reproduce, among other works, Sunflowers. Zaman helped to reproduce a Van Gogh as well as two Rembrandts. Read more
16.00 Tea break
16.45 Krashna Musika – Energetic, syncopated rhythms coming right at ya!
De Vvier Elementen.After concluding the ninth lustrum and a year full of great projects – among others the opera of Carmen, the St John Passion and a tour to Paris – the orchestra and choir of music students in Delft, Krashna Musika, starts this fall with an English programme, which contains the 2nd symphony of the British componist Egon Wellesz and the Magnificat from John Rutter.
Rutter is mainly known for his chiefly choral compositions that include Christmas carols and anthems. His more extended works are a Gloria, a Magnificat and a Requiem. Read more
17.10 Japie Stoppelenburg – A Schoolyard named Facebook
JapieJapie describes himself as a ‘big city snob with a small country heart’. Japie is only 25 years old, but he has a remarkable CV. He is now a Lead Creative who specializes in nothing and instead opts to try out everything. So Japie concepts, copywrites, designs, researches, directs, sings, dances and acts – often for clients and mostly for fun.
He is able to link his conceptual mind to things and movements we see in our society, presenting daily reality with a twist. In Dutch we would say that Japie ‘geen blad voor de mond neemt’, which comes close to ‘he does not mind his words’. He is able to bring about his message loud and clear. Read more
17.25 Maartje en Kine
maarteampkine-01-credits-Astrid-Verhoef1-700x466Disarming and charming, musically talented and original, young and ambitious, sweet and vicious, sharp and funny, energetic and fascinating, blond and red, Dutch and Norwegian. That’s what Maartje & Kine are!
Maartje de Boer and Kine Handlykken met as background musicians on a ship. You can already know them of the end-month performances with Martijn Koning at VARA HumorTV where they did musical interludes. Maartje & Kine are nowadays back where they started. As musicians on an old cruise ship, going under while singing and playing music. On a stage full of instruments they play whipping klezmer, Irish folk, French chanson, Argentinean tango and classical music. A musical cabaret duo with an infectious enthusiasm and sharp texts. This means Party! Read more
17.35 John Cohn – Do try this at home
John CohnJohn Cohn is not only a professor and IBM Fellow (which happens to be the most senior technical rank in IBM’s 200,000 person technical community) but is also a real trooper when it comes to survival of the fittest. In The Colony, a show that resembles John De Mol’s new show to a great extent, participants have to survive in a simulated post-apocalyptic environment.
With his creative mind and endless knowledge John Cohn fixed, made and hacked electronics, created some crazy devices, was able to build stuff out of natural materials and could repair almost anything. Read more
