We are delighted to announce that the next TEDxTallaght will take place on Thursday November 3rd 2011 at the Victory Centre, Firhouse, Tallaght. Booking has started for the event & we’d love to hear your comments either here, or on Facebook or Twitter. Our Hashtag for the event is #TEDxTallaght
About TEDxTallaght: Thinking Made Visual
The essence of design is thinking made visual. From traditional craft to computer design, from dress design to app design…they are all processes of thought becoming reality in a nexus of creativity. By breaking out of established patterns of thinking and doing, by tapping into our inner child and by not fearing failure, we can pierce the ordinary to find the extraordinary. 2011 is The Year of Craft in Ireland and so we wish to celebrate design and creativity from all areas of life in this our second TEDxTallaght event.
Darragh Doyle MC
Darragh Doyle was one of our speakers in last year’s TEDxTallaght: The Alchemy of Ideas, and gave a wonderful talk which you can view here on the site. This year he has kindly agreed to be MC for TEDxTallaght: Thinking made Visual. Darragh works online and often volunteers for events and charities. He likes to tell people about things, to write about the inspiring folk he encounters and share the things he likes to do. Check out what Darragh is doing and has done at his blogspot. We’re just delighted to have Darragh on board with us again this year!
Roísín Heneghan of Heneghan Peng Architects:
Egyptian Museum Cairo
Heneghan Peng Architects is a design partnership practising architecture, landscape and urban design. The practise was founded by Shih-Fu Peng and Róisín Heneghan in New York in 1999 and in 2001 was relocated to Dublin, Ireland.
They take a multi-disciplinary approach to design and have collaborated with many leading designers and engineers on a range of projects which include larger scale urban masterplans, bridges, landscapes and buildings.
Current projects include the Grand Egyptian Museum, at the Pyramids, the Giant’s Causeway Visitors’ Centre, Central Park Bridges at the 2012 London Olympic Park, a Library and School of Architecture at the University of Greenwich in Greenwich, London and a Mittelrheinbruecke in the Rhine Valley.
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Hilary Kenna: The Waste Land iPad App
Hilary Kenna is the Prinicipal Investigator of SeeSearch Project & Lecturer in Design & Digital Media at IADT: Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She has worked with Touch Press as the designer of their latest iPad App, The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, published jointly with Faber and Faber. The Waste Land launched in the UK and US and thus far is being extremely well received, making App of the week in the US. This is fantastic considering The Waste Land does not have the same mass appeal as other more general titles – after all Eliot’s poem, though a milestone in modernist poetry, is difficult for contemporary audiences and is loaded with academic references. The Waste Land iPad App, is a contemporary re-presentation of the poem as a true multimedia textual experience. Around the core poem text, there are carefully crafted layers of interactive media including: readings (by Alec Guinness, Eliot himself, Viggo Mortensen and others), a video performance by Fiona Shaw, critical perspectives (by Seamus Heaney, Craig Raine amongst others), detailed annotated notes, an overlay of the original manuscript and a gallery of related images. All of this additional material serves to enhance the readers’ engagement with the core text of the poem rather than distract from it. Together they build an expanded experience for the reader that helps them to understand the richly woven texture that is The Waste Land. Hilary Kenna will speak about Data Visualisation and new technologies, where creativity becomes reality and what that future reality might be
Shane Gillen
Shane Gillen is a Sligo born magician currently based in Dublin. Shane’s magic has seen him invited into the New York homes of both Denzel Washington and Kelsey Grammer to perform for the stars, and whilst in New York Shane was also invited to perform a private party hosted by Samuel L.Jackson. Shane has performed backstage at a number of VIP and celebrity events such as backstage at Lady Gaga in The O2, backstage at The Meteor Ireland Music Awards, 50 Cent, Faithless, The Top Gear Festival and Electric Picnic.Gillen spent the Summer touring Ireland with his stage show ‘The Arrow of Time – An Evening of Mind Magic‘, which culminated in a huge sold out show at The Hawk’s Well Theatre in Sligo to an audience of 340 people. According to popular music and entertainment magazine Hot Press Shane’s magic is ‘…not about the paranormal, the dangerous, the spectacular. It’s about the funny, the dexterous and the genuinely puzzling. There is no doubt that he is deceiving us all…‘ In June 2011, Shane was featured on the cover of The Dubliner magazine as well as having a 7 page spread inside.‘The Arrow of Time…‘ purports to control the way an audience thinks and reacts to certain situations. It is this form of ‘mind-trickery’ that Gillen works best at, and so his talk ‘The Anatomy of Perception‘ at this year’s TEDx event will delve into ways he makes the audience think, various techniques to control an audience’s thought patterns and a bold insight into what you perceive to be happening, and what is truly happening.Shane Gillen Magic Facebook page: www.facebook.com/shanegillenmagicShane Gillen Magic Youtube: www.youtube.com/gillenmagicShane Gillen Twitter: www.twitter.com/gillenmagic
Tags: Angela O'Kelly, Architecture, Conor MacCormack, Darragh Doyle, Design, Dublin, Heneghan Peng Architects, Hilary Kenna, Innovation Dublin, Mcor Technologies, South Dublin County Council, South Dublin Innovates, South Dublin Libraries, T.S. Eliot, TEDx, The Waste Land, Visual, Year of Craft
would love to hear people or software engineers/designers or the creators of HAVOK. this is an irish company that just started in trinity as a project and now a well known brand in software gaming industry. thanks
I am so looking forward to this year’s event…it promises to be a cracker. Good luck to all of the team!