Social – May 2011

Design Like You Give A Damn

The evening will celebrate the power of design to enhance creative endeavors, unravel social stalemate and to save and enrich lives.

Guest Curator, Laura Forman

Date

Thursday May 19, 2011

Agenda

6:00 p.m. Registration and Networking
7:00 p.m. Design Like You Give A Damn
Introduction by Guest Curator, Laura Forman
TEDxBuenosAires – Spread the TED
David McCandless: The beauty of data Visualization at TEDGlobal 2010
Sebastian Thrun: Google’s driverless car at TED 2011
Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change
Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist
8:00 p.m. Discussion By Attendees
9:00 p.m. Close

Bonus Content

If we had more time then we would have shown these great TED Talks:
James H Kunstler: Dissects suburbia at TED 2004
Eythor Bender: Demos human exoskeletons at TED 2011
Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention at TEDMED 2009

Pictures

Daniel Sofer took some great pictures.

Attendance and Venue

The event was attended by 53 people and was held at the Creative Arts Center, 1560 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, California, 90266.