TEDxTalks TEDxGöteborg2012 Beyond Borders
Coping with the reality of Asperger – Sandra Petojevic
To Sandra Petojevic the world appears differently than it does to most people. She has Asperger syndrome, and her "unusual" ways of interpreting and expressing feelings has shown her how official misconduct, intolerance and prejudices can ruin things and lead to conflicts.
How Daydreams Become Life’s Adventures – Jim Prescott
Why do some ideas seem to take off like a rocket all by themselves and others gather dust on the launch pad? What happens when we share them with others? Entrepreneur and adventurer Jim Prescott takes us on a journey to the Nevada Desert in a wind wagon to explore how visions become realities and how daydreams become life's adventures.
The Edible City – Klara Hansson
The Edible City is a vision of a future where everyone can eat what grows in the city - and where the knowledge of how to feed oneself will not be forgotten. Perhaps the recipe to a thriving environment is you swapping apples for tomatoes with your neighbour?
Love your iPhone and the iPhone will love you back – Aric Dromi
Aric sees possibilities importing emotional wisdom to technology around us. Not to teach it how to think, feel and understand things exactly like us. Rather to pave bypass roads that can bring results equal-value to understanding, feeling and thinking.
To be governed by TED – Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof
Susanne started in advertising as a young girl and has since started and sold a strategic communications company carrying out campaigns for the US Military in war-ravaged Afghanistan, and then a second one in Libya and Egypt during the Arab Spring. She is now exploring alternatives to the current nation-state system, specifically non-territorial corporate states.
OldSchool Flavour
Oldschool Flavour is an unusual dance group where youths and grownups -- some even parents and children -- perform together. Their act mixes different styles of street dances with a bit of theater, and shows that it's never too late to tear down your walls.
Comfort the Disturbed, Disturb the Comfortable – Pelle Hanæus
Pelle Hanæus is a Swedish actor and theatre director who knows how laughter can spur hope even in the most challenging places. He wants to show how, through engagement and imagination, each and every one of us can make the world a little bit brighter.
The Language of Street-Art – Shai Dahan
In May 2012, Shai traveled to a conflict-driven region of Israel to take part of a creative collaboration and an art journey. As he became part of this journey, Shai realized that this project was more than just drawing a painting on a wall. It became a journey for finding hope in a land where optimism seemed to have vacated long ago.
Pursuing your geeky project – Emil Johansson
Since Emil Johansson was eleven years old he has been passionate about J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. In January 2012 he published his website consisting of a giant family tree of all the characters living there. The site has received lots of media attention, internet fame and internationally labeled Emil a geek.
Puzzling out the Universe – Wouter Vlemmings
Wouter Vlemmings tries to understand the processes that shape the Universe around us. He uses the most modern astronomical equipment, spread across the world. With this he studies how stars like our Sun die and how their death affects the next generation of young stars.
Environmental Architecture – Torsten Ottesjö
Torsten Ottesjö is a 30 year old architect and lumberjack who has tried to create environments where we can live. Torsten works through a continual process of improvisation, using raw materials to create complex patterns and environments which reach beyond our understanding of what a room can be.
Innovative Musician – Håkan Lidbo
Swedish musician and electronic producer Håkan Lidbo is always on the lookout for new challenges. With his project InvisiBall he has created a tennis game where you rely solely on your hearing. It is played blindfolded or by blind people. Your racket becomes a musical instrument and your movements create a greater composition.
Annushka
Russian-born musician Annushka brings people together by crossing musical borders. She sings in ten languages and blends Russian folklore, upbeat Latino rhythms and grandiose brass, producing a gratifying and energetic feel with a hint of both humor and depth.
Re-designing and recycling human organs – Suchitra Sumatran-Holgersson
As a teenager Suchitra decided she wanted to improve life quality for sick people through research. With the first tissue-engineered transplantation her goal seems well achieved. But this is only the beginning of a new exciting era, where the recycling and re-design of human organs offers hope and life to many people.
How herring farts almost lead to a diplomatic crisis – Magnus Wahlberg
How can herring farts in the Stockholm archipelago almost lead to a diplomatic crisis? Magnus Wahlberg proofs that science doesn’t have to be dull to be important. First make people laugh, and then think. With his speech, Magnus wants us to do just that.
Nuclear Musicians – Radioactive Orchestra
By giving every radioactive isotop its own sound based on scientific algorithms Radioactive Orchestra turns nuclear science into music, hence making a world available to us that our senses can not otherwise percieve.
A Multi Winner in Live – Martha Ehlin
Would you accept an organ if you needed it? And if so, shouldn’t you also be willing to give? Martha Ehlin asks us the same question that she was confronted with when, at the age of 30, she was diagnosed with cancer in the vital organs.
Thinking Inside the Box – Magnus Berglund
Magnus is a problem solver with no sense of limits, neither mentally nor physically. For TEDxGöteborg Magnus has prepared a traditional test – in an untraditional way.
Becoming a Memory Master – Idriz Zogaj
Idriz is passionate about teaching others how to improve their memories and believes that with the right practice, anyone can get a super-memory.
