Summary: TED Prize : Wishes Big Enough to Change the World
TED Prize Winner Updates and Input
Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the earthquake that devastated
Haiti. This morning the people of Port au Prince woke up to
portraits of their own – locals and members of the Haitian diaspora
– plastered around the city. From Cité Soleil to
Petion-Ville, over 500 images, taken by Haitian photographers and
printed by JR’s Inside Out [...]

Date Published: Jan 12, 2012 - 8:33 am
A note from Jill Tarter… At TED last February, Chris told the
audience that without a White Knight stepping up to support my SETI
observing program on the Allen Telescope Array, the antennas would
soon be put into a safe hibernation mode in preparation for
shutting down the array. That’s because our University of
California [...]

Date Published: Dec 13, 2011 - 10:18 am
From Amy Novogratz, Director of the TED Prize… This year,
the TED Prize is going in an exciting and different direction.
Rather than granting the Prize to a single person, we’re giving it
to an idea: the City 2.0. Last year we challenged the artist JR to
make a wish to change the world, and with [...]

Date Published: Dec 06, 2011 - 2:22 pm
Genevieve Tran has organized several Inside Out Project group
actions in Tokyo. We spoke with her about her experience as a group
leader. Interview edited for grammar. IOP: Was this your first
foray into exhibiting your art on the street? GT: Perhaps, when I
was really young, some sidewalk chalk might have happened.
But as [...]

Date Published: Nov 22, 2011 - 1:21 pm
Did you know that a kid who drinks two flavored milks in school a
day is consuming an extra 5-8 tablespoons of sugar everyday? Does
this concern you? Next week, Food Revolutionaries around the US
will participate in the Flavored Milk Week of Action to help spread
knowledge like this. The goal is to educate [...]

Date Published: Nov 03, 2011 - 12:19 pm
Congratulations to the first class of admitted students at AIMS
Senegal, the newest AIMS center and the latest achievement from
cosmologist and TED Prize winner Neil Turok and his NextEinstein
Initiative. In 2008 Turok wished for the TED community to help
“unlock and nurture scientific talent across Africa, so that within
our lifetimes we are celebrating [...]

Date Published: Nov 02, 2011 - 11:47 am
JR started exploring his artistic side when he was a teenager. And
he has been at it ever since. Recently he spoke with Do Something
about the importance of art in a young person’s life in general and
arts education specifically. Do Something is currently running
a campaign, Make Art, Save Art, aimed at mobilizing young
[...]

Date Published: Oct 28, 2011 - 10:16 am
Earlier this year JOANA SOARES, ANA SANTOS and MAFALDA JACINTO
organized a group action in Lisbon, Portugal. We interviewed them
to gain insight into their process and experience. Interview was
edited by author for grammar. IOP: Was this your first foray into
exhibiting your art on the street? JS, AS, & MJ: Yes, it was.
[...]

Date Published: Oct 26, 2011 - 1:55 pm
99 faces. 99 stories. 99 reasons why they are the 99%. Late last
week, a group of everyday American citizens used art and the
Inside Out Project platform to stand up and declare that they are
the 99%. Occupy. Inside. Out. is an effort to document the
people behind the Occupy movement and to share their stories;
[...]

Date Published: Oct 25, 2011 - 1:04 pm
Dryland Farming #17, Edward Burtynsky At the end of this month,
concurrent exhibitions of work by 2005 TED Prize Winner Edward
Burtynsky will open in New York City. From their announcement…
The exhibition at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery will feature large-scale
works from Burtynsky’s newest series Dryland Farming. Shot in the
remote Monegros region of northeastern Spain, [...]

Date Published: Oct 17, 2011 - 3:18 pm