Terrific TED Talks video by star-chitect Bjarke Ingels.
I'm very encouraged (and jealous! I want to learn how to make movies, too!) to see this sort of presentation. I don't think that the conventional magazine can really do the job, in comparison to a good video. And now that we have the web - it's really easy to share.
Some outtakes I really like:
"Yes is More" - that solutions come more usefully from listening and brainstorming and 'breeding' of different good ideas, than by establishing rules to exclude solutions.
"Sustainability seems to be this neo-Protestant idea that it has to hurt to do good" - what about examples that improve quality of life?
I also like his humility...
"we didn't think that (our proposal) looked like anything in the north of Sweden...the Swedish jury didn't think so either, so we lost." But they recycled the idea for China, given the resemblance to the Chinese character meaning 'people', which came from a Chinese businessman who saw the scheme. So after "scaling the building up three times to Chinese proportions"...
Shanghai mayor Chen Liangyu called the scheme "a way to bridge the gap between the ancient wisdom of China" (as symbolized by the broad connection at base) and its high-reaching future. "We obviously profoundly agree with him..."
See, listening to how people interpret your work is really important. What you intend is not as important as what they experience.
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