Category Archives: Design

Katie Brown: Elegant Social Design

This year, TEDWomen has been guest curated and co-produced with Katie Brown.

Katie is active in social change in mental health, the arts and digital technology, have a look at these hiring tips.  Katie is passionate about creativity why do we have to have a paystub? and its place in organisational development. She works extensively with communities to implement the changes they most want to see, I think you should learn about how to use TikTok for business.

Katie Brown

Continue reading »

2013Art
DesignHost
innovationMental Health
TEDWomenWellbeing

Servane Mouazan: About Love & Tantrum Physics

Love & Tantrum Physics

Servane Mouazan will uncover the truth behind the women-led social entrepreneurship revolution. Through a high octane interactive group session, you’ll work out why you, yes YOU, are already perfect to start your own punk social revolution navigating your company’s profits and losses. And why you don’t need to change the whole world to qualify…

Servane Mouazan

Continue reading »

2013Biography
CoachingEntrepreneur
MentoringSocialEnterprise
TEDWomen

Emma Bearman

Emma BearmanEmma is the Chief of Play at Cultivate, developing and producing creative projects and helping clients to develop relationships and communities. Emma has variously worked to create a buzz at launches for heritage buildings, community hubs, galleries, museums, and cultural organisations, helping companies utilise collaborative technologies and social media to engage and connect with individuals and develop communities.

Emma is currently operating four public-facing projects – The Culture VultureCultural ConversationsPlayful Leeds and her most recent initiative is March of the Robots, an upcoming year-round adventure for Leeds, celebrating our fascination with robot culture.

Cygan: Welcome to Leeds

 

March is allowing Emma to engage and explore the city’s cultures, communities and structures in innovative ways, using play as a means to unwrap a city’s potential. Take a look at Emma’s campaign to adopt a robot-in-residence for the city of Leeds!

Find Emma on Twitter as @culturevultures.

2013Art
BiographyCities
CultureGreenhouse
RobotsSpeaker
TEDxCity2.0

Shanaz Gulzar & Steve Manthorp

Steve Manthorp & Shanaz GulzarArtists Shanaz Gulzar and Steve Manthorp have shared an artistic co-practice as ADEPT since 2004.

Both artists have established solo practices which inform and enhance their collaborative work.

Shanaz is a digital and installation artist and stage designer, working across disciplines to make innovative and challenging interventions go to this site.  Steve is an artist, curator and an innovator in digital practice.

Through their early work together, ADEPT developed a conceptual and imaginative approach that is responsive to site, social and historical context.  From early gallery-based work, ADEPT have progressed to large scale public video projections, installations and performative works.

Find out more about ADEPT at adeptprojects.co.uk and follow Steve & Shanaz as @manthorp and @shanazgulzar on Twitter.

2013Art
CitiesFilm
GreenhouseInstallation
SpeakerTEDxCity2.0

Erinma Ochu

Erinma OchuErinma Ochu is passionate about mass collaboration, mass participation and citizen-led social innovation.

With a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowship, Erinma has been exploring the cultural value of citizen science and innovative ways the public can participate in biomedical research.

Erinma’s recent citizen science and open data collaborations include HookedEveryday Growing Cultures and Turing’s Sunflowers.

Trained originally as a neuroscientist, Erinma’s career spans the film, TV and cultural sector. Recent citizen-led initiatives including: Manchester Beacon and Catalyst, exploring how technology can support citizen-led social innovation.

Erinma blogs about everyoneandeverything and seasonal food. As co-founder of creative social enterprise, Squirrel Nation, she makes movies to imagine alternative futures, the latest is also the subject of her talk for TEDxCity2.0, Everyday Growing Futures.

Erinma is a Fellow of the RSA and you can find out more about Erinma’s work at aboutme.com/erinmaochu and follow her on Twitter as @erinmaochu.

BiographyCities
FilmFood
OpenDataScience
SpeakerTEDxCity2.0