TEDxFlanders - Serge De Gheldere - Climate Change

Serge de Gheldere, 36, is CEO of Futureproof/ed, one of the first companies to exclusively focus on products/ services that reconcile sustainability, design and quality. In other words: a TED spirit catcher.

Serge has a degree of electromechanical engineer, with a master in polymer and composites engineering. He worked successfully on the first system to eliminate blood-borne pathogens in platelet transfusion products (for which he was awarded two patents).

This experience in material science, mechanical and electrival engineering and manufacturing caused a natural evolution towards FutureProof/ed: finding ways to develop and design better products. Products that are more attractive, life-enhancing, environmentally sound, ecologically intelligent in both product and space design and the workshop, training programs and consultancy to help inject this new type of thinking everywhere. In between all of that, Serge is a designer-in-residence in the xDesign program at Yale University.

Recorded at the Antwerp Zoo on September 5th 2010.
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