In this video Rachael Armstrong, interdisciplinary researcher, teaching Fellow at the Bartlett, and member of AVATAR Research Group talks at TED Global 2009 about building genuinely sustainable cities by connecting them to nature. How? Architect Neil Spiller and Rachael are generating metabolic materials from scratch and building architectures from a bottom-up approach to counterpose Victorian [...]

Originally posted on boingboing by Mark Frauenfelder, reblogged by Cluster I missed the morning speakers at TED this year, but I caught the afternoon group, who presented talks around the theme “What is our place in the universe?” Dr. Roy Gould, an astrophysicist from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, and Curtis Wong, principal researcher of [...]