TEDxChange, an official TED satellite event, took place in Berlin, Germany; here in Christchurch, we got together with our amazing TEDx community to watch the show, discuss its big ideas, and enjoy each other’s company.
TEDxChChChange was on Saturday, April 7, 2012 in the seriously cool venue The Park at The Tannery. Around 100 TEDxers rocked up -- many with beanbags! -- to enjoy the livestream from Berlin, as well as an amazing live performance from Mandy and Jason Pickering.
There are lots of ways to be part of the TEDxChCh and TEDxEQChCh community!
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 TEDxEQChCh, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxEQChCh event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
TEDxEQChCh started as a one-day event on Saturday, May 21st, 2011, to re-imagine Christchurch as a world-leading city, and to provide inspiration that will directly impact the future of Christchurch. The organising team also ran a TEDxEQChCh salon event in August and looks forward to putting on more events in the future.
Its purpose:
Speakers at TEDxEQChCh will cover a broad range of disciplines, including urban planning, architecture, entrepreneurship, culture, and economics. The day-long event will explore key issues of leadership, vision, livability, workability, and sustainability, presenting solutions that are simultaneously inspirational, implementable, and economically attractive.
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Everything tells us that we need fundamental change in society. For all of us around the world the most pressing issue is fundamental change to economies – moving away from globalisation, to localisaton. Localisation reduces energy use, waste, societal degradation, environmental degradation. it can create meaningful jobs and rebuild the fabric of community. Norberg-Hodge told [...]
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The greatest creative project of 300000 people heading in one direction. In the days and weeks hat followed the earthquake, in an unparalleled way the greatest qualities of our humanity came out. How do we recreate that for our re-imaging and communicate across 300000 people. We now have a context where we as individuals or [...]
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