Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from Paper
With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
Bruce Muzik: The Big Secret Nobody Wants To Tell
Bruce Muzik presents a riveting talk about the devastating impact that withholding secrets can have on our lives and what to do about it. He’s known as the ‘white man that lived for 6 months in a black ghetto’ in post-apartheid South Africa. His passion is having people experience unprecedented freedom and happiness, through being […]
Casey Sheahan: The Next Industrial Revolution
Are we in the midst of the next industrial revolution? Casey Sheahan weaves his personal story with the corporate story of Patagonia. He shows us there the real links between responsibility corporate transparency, responsibility and profitability.
Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of ‘normal’ can lead to extraordinary break-throughs.
