The accidental brilliance of makeshift signs | Kate Canales

The accidental brilliance of makeshift signs | Kate Canales

What happens when the design of everyday things misses the mark? People fill in the blanks. Designer Kate Canales has spent more than 20 years photographing the handmade, improvised signs that appear when the original falls short. From perplexing bathroom directions to our struggles with doors and point-of-sale machines, her photos capture something technology can't replace: our instinct to look out for each other and leave a few instructions behind.


If you've got a photo you've taken of a makeshift sign like the ones Kate discusses in her talk, she'd would love to see it! Please visit www.thereifixedit.design to learn more.

Learn more about our flagship conference happening this April at attend.ted.com/podcast

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jaksot(2684)

The single most important parenting strategy | Becky Kennedy (re-release)

The single most important parenting strategy | Becky Kennedy (re-release)

Everyone loses their temper from time to time — but the stakes are dizzyingly high when the focus of your fury is your own child. Clinical psychologist and renowned parenting whisperer Becky Kennedy i...

8 Huhti 15min

The art and science of wine tasting | Qian Janice Wang

The art and science of wine tasting | Qian Janice Wang

No two people taste wine the same way, and science is starting to show us why. Sensory scientist Qian Janice Wang explores why experts and beginners experience complexity so differently — revealing th...

7 Huhti 15min

The nurse who can smell Parkinson’s | Joy Milne

The nurse who can smell Parkinson’s | Joy Milne

What does Parkinson's smell like? Ask nurse Joy Milne. Born with a hypersensitive nose, she spent a lifetime learning to recognize diseases through their scents. When she smelled Parkinson's on her hu...

6 Huhti 19min

Sunday Pick: What to do when your beliefs are challenged (w/ Tenelle Porter) | from How to Be a Better Human

Sunday Pick: What to do when your beliefs are challenged (w/ Tenelle Porter) | from How to Be a Better Human

Tenelle Porter’s job is to study humility. Specifically, intellectual humility, the idea that we might be wrong or mistaken about some of our beliefs. Tenelle talks with Chris about why she thinks int...

5 Huhti 35min

Where joy hides and how to find it | Ingrid Fetell Lee (re-release)

Where joy hides and how to find it | Ingrid Fetell Lee (re-release)

Cherry blossoms and rainbows, bubbles and googly eyes: Why do some things seem to create such universal joy? In this captivating talk, Ingrid Fetell Lee reveals the surprisingly tangible roots of joy ...

4 Huhti 15min

How I imitate nature's voices | Snow Raven (re-release)

How I imitate nature's voices | Snow Raven (re-release)

You're about to hear the sounds of several different creatures — from the voice of one single musician. In a spellbinding talk and performance, singer Snow Raven mimics the hoot of an owl, the grumble...

3 Huhti 10min

I let DaddyGPT parent my kids. Here's what I learned | Stephen Remedios

I let DaddyGPT parent my kids. Here's what I learned | Stephen Remedios

As the world races toward digital perfection, tech humanist Stephen Remedios tried to optimize the messiest and most imperfect of all human work: parenting. He shares the story of DaddyGPT, a digital ...

2 Huhti 13min

5 practical ways to take control of your life | Jim VandeHei

5 practical ways to take control of your life | Jim VandeHei

You can't control the world — but you can control you. That's the mantra that took Axios CEO Jim VandeHei, a once "unremarkably unremarkable 20-year-old," all the way to launching companies and interv...

1 Huhti 13min

Suosittua kategoriassa Yhteiskunta

sita
olipa-kerran-otsikko
kaksi-aitia
hupiklubi
siita-on-vaikea-puhua
i-dont-like-mondays
ihme-ja-kumma
uutiscast
poks
gogin-ja-janin-maailmanhistoria
antin-palautepalvelu
kolme-kaannekohtaa
mamma-mia
rss-murhan-anatomia
aikalisa
yopuolen-tarinoita-2
meidan-pitais-puhua
rss-palmujen-varjoissa
naakkavalta
mystista