TEDxTampaBaySalon November Highlights

November 22, 2011 by Leave a comment

What a fun way to begin the holiday week! The TEDxTampaBaySalon November event theme was Crowdsourcing, and everyone enjoyed sharing their personal stories. After screening talks by Clay Shirkey and Eric Whitacre, animated discussions led perfectly into our crowdsourcing activity. We all divided up into teams with the intention of creating team-based art. Then teams swapped their “masterpieces” for another teams art and added even more detail.  The resulting fun, interesting, and funny pictures truly made us smile. Crowdsourcing is no only a powerful way to generate new ideas, solve problems, and bring people together, it is also fun! Thanks to everyone who participated.

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TEDxTampaBaySalon October Highlights

October 18, 2011 by Leave a comment

TEDxTampaBaySalonOur October theme was “Water”, and as we screened two very different TED videos around this theme, our discussions took us through cultural, engineering, social, community, and water quality concerns.  One one end of the spectrum we identified a dire need for clean drinking water in arid areas and developing nations around the world.  On the other end of the spectrum, we squander clean drinking water, spend millions of dollars to manage, clean, and even pollute it.  Having novel ways to clean polluted drinking water makes recovery from natural disasters much safer for victims and allows people to reclaim their communities quicker. But are water filters safe for long-term use?  Do these novel filters remove heavy metals, volatiles, and pesticides? How do we ensure that engineered solutions fit a culture’s needs? These were just some of the questions we tackled.

TED Videos

Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

Michael Pritchard’s water filter turns dirty water drinkable

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TEDxTampaBaySalon September Highlights – Ethics

September 20, 2011 by Leave a comment

TEDx fans packed Tre Amici Monday evening to engage in passionate discussions about two TED talks relating to ethics. We screened Paul Wolpe’s talk on questioning bioengineering and Damon Horowitz’s talk about moral frameworks.  The eclectic crowd, who would rather delve into this deep philosophical discussion than watch Monday night television, discussed how humans have the power to change their own DNA, create new organisms, and use information and data to affect masses of people. The overarching question was although we have power to do all of these things, should we?  And if we proceed, what is the moral framework through which we continue?

Although philosophical questions like these aren’t easy to answer, the diverse crowd contributed to a deeply developed discussion that broadened individual perspectives.  There definitely wasn’t any “group think” going on at this event!

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TEDxTampaBaySalon August Highlights – Where Ideas Come From

August 16, 2011 by Leave a comment

TEDxTampaBaySalon attendees swelled Tre Amici as the evening unfolded. The aroma of freshly brewed coffee mingled with the smells of freshly grilled sandwiches and rich red wines as the first TED video played.  The Night’s theme was Where Ideas Come From, and the gathered crowd was more than ready to share ideas.

We screened Steven Johnson’s talk “Where Good Ideas Come From” and Matt Ridley’s Talk “When Ideas Have Sex“.

Several new possible projects emerged from the evening, many people made new acquaintances, and the passion and energy around ideas sparked energy and imaginations as ideas about art mingled with ideas about physical activity and open content.  What a mash-up of ideas (Our ideas had sex!).

View all of the photos from the event on the TEDxTampaBay Flickr page 

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