2019
Large protests are transforming our societies. Are the apparent divides forming in societies – as disparate as India and France, Brazil and Britain – the result of a common sentiment? Yemi shares his observations of a growing feeling of disempowerment around the globe, a frustration from people feeling unheard. If that isn’t bad enough, Yemi shares his sense of despair …
Discover forbidden songs because they disturbed the powers in place. Who said that music and art are only there to entertain us? Did you know that many songs were banned at the time because they disturbed the powers in place. Between musette and swing, Chloé and Baptiste Bieri make us discover songs that, each in their own way, were sources …
In his long-term photographic explorations, Mario del Curto shows us the links that unite us to the plant world. In particular, he introduces us to the work of Nikolai Vavilov at the beginning of the 20th century, which needs to be shared: this Russian agronomist has identified the origins of the vast majority of cultivated plants. Without moral or categories, …
The relationship between citizens and politicians is very complex. A bridge between the two of them has been building over the years, leading up to a new form of government, a parliament that collaborates with the people more than ever before. Delphine’s talk will illustrate the impact and the power a citizen has in our politics and in creating our …
Digital traces are omnipresent in the present criminal investigations. These include messages, photos, videos found in our cell phones or computers. However, can we say that these traces completely replace fingerprints or DNA samples? Are they complementary and in this case, what is their added value? In reality, these traces provide a dispassionate view of the course of a crime, …
In her urban planning and engineering architecture studies Elisabeth learnt very little about youth development and terms like inequity. From working experiences in different countries and cultures, she fully realized how the city environment impacts the wellbeing of its citizens. Youth and their wellbeing too often fall through the cracks of city planning and management. Today we live in an …
Here is how we combined the mechanisms of facilitation in collective intelligence, contribution economics and participatory democracy to create Solucracy, an open source method to foster a dynamic of collaboration in the territories that takes care of the social fabric and which transforms the needs of the inhabitants into solutions. We have tested this method in the village of Léaz, …
Over the last 6 centuries, financial crises occur for almost always the same reason: we increase our debts to unsustainable levels, be it in the government, corporate or households sectors. The problem is that no financial institution is willing to tackle credit bubbles before they burst into severe recessions. Central Banks are only ready to intervene once financial crises take …
Digitalization is heavily impacting our society. We are at a time when information in abundance is impacting and disrupting the way we learn. How do you imagine the perfect education? Is the traditional learning system good enough? Anastasiia-Lei chose to reshape her education and embrace digitalization to create her school of life: self-education through TED. She stands here today, to …
A life-long human rights activist, Catalina Devandas became the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities in 2014. In her talk, Catalina will share important lessons she learned about the barriers that she, together with millions of other persons with disabilities face in their lives. She explains how the most difficult barriers are not those …
