"The place where I grew up faced the Nairobi dump site. All the trash, all the waste of Nairobi, used to be dumped in my neighborhood. So whenever I woke up, the first thing I saw was garbage. I used to tell my dad I would like to give trash a second chance. I would like to work with trash. And that’s why, up to now, that’s what I’ve done."
Miriah Meyer (USA) - Science visualization designer
American designer who creates interactive visualization systems that help scientists make sense of complex data.
Safwat Saleem (Pakistan | USA) - Graphic designer + satirist
Pakistani graphic designer, filmmaker and artist who uses humor to tell stories of people (and creatures) who have the odds stacked against them.
Christine Sun Kim (USA) - Sound artist + composer
Korean-American artist and educator who uses the medium of sound through technology to investigate and rationalize her relationship with sound and spoken languages.
Alicia Eggert (USA) - Interdisciplinary artist
American interdisciplinary artist whose work primarily takes the form of kinetic, electronic and interactive sculpture.
Antonio Torres (Mexico) - Architect + naturalist
Mexican artist, architect and co-founder of The Bittertang Farm, a small design farm that explores expressions and sensations through media and architecture.
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo (US) - Video sculptor
American video artist creating living video installation pieces of "miniature people" encased inside ordinary objects such as suitcases, blenders and more.
Christine Marie (US) - Shadow artist
American artist specializing in creating and directing immersive spectacles with large scale projected 3D shadows.
Abigail Washburn (US | China) - Singer + banjo player + cultural activist
Singer, songwriter, clawhammer banjo player, and recording artist who tours the world performing in both English and Chinese. Preparing to study law and settle in Beijing, she left to sing and play.
Laurel Braitman (US) - Science historian + writer
American historian and anthropologist of science studying the mental health of animals and what it means about humans. Her research, subject of her upcoming book Animal Madness, posits that animals suffer from mental illness too.
At TED, we can take risks on unconventional innovators. We value achievement over credentials -- making and doing over merely talking.
We are looking for the next generation of innovators who have demonstrated remarkable accomplishment and outstanding potential to positively affect the world: eclectic, heterogeneous group of young thinkers and doers from the fields of technology, entertainment, design, the sciences, engineering, humanities, the arts, economics, business, journalism, entrepreneurship
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