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Design....ed

A Creative resource for teachers

Video's on Design & Creativity

Video - Designer Tim Brown
-- on designers must think big, what can creative thinking do for society ..

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls the shift to local collaborative, participatory "design thinking."

Video - Biomimicry in action for Design
-- a self proclaimed natue nerd, Janine Benyus' concept of biomimicry has galvanised architects, designers, scientists and engineers into exploring new ways of designing ..

Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered amd more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.

Philippe Starck
-- with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question
"Why design?" Listen carefully for one perfect mantra ..

Elizabeth Gilbert.. A different way to think about creativity!

Frank Gehry
gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent buildings, and the all-important “Then what?” factor.

Captain Organic - Ross Lovegrove on organic design

How interesting is design, check this clip Yves Behar Designer.

Creativity: Amy Tan on Creativity

The power of participatory design
When ideas have sex!
-- author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engie of the human progress has been meeting and mating ideas to make new ideas. Its not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is ..

Architectural fly through - youtube video