Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you

http://www.ted.com What does your chair say about what you value? Designer Sebastian Deterding shows how our visions of morality and what the good life is are reflected in the design of objects around us.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

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TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate

If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to http://support.ted.com

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[Smithpolly]

What did you wear when they invited you to give a talk at TED?

[hyperbolaisagraph]

I'd flip through catalogs and wonder, "what kind of dining set defines me as a person?"

[PedanticNo1]

Because, you know, in a forum that promotes individuality, creativity, and altruism, one is required to wear rigidly formal clothing. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense, shallowmind.

[MrPrzemasK]

you are probably used to people telling you everything in a simple way

[Alex Olieman]

You're most likely right. Whining is the Dutch ideal of progress. Except: Deterding is certainly German.

[tirwad]

Show Dutch a beautiful sunny spring day with lots of butterflies and they will find something to whine about, they are just not a cheery bunch.

[toop2star]

have you seen an amazing miracle like this befor)........ .Search YouTube)

[88res]

gay clam digger for sure

[Cunelito]

And what have you done so far being illuminated?

For me TED is not about uploading vids with prominent ppl saying very important things.

Instead TED uploads vids so ppl can change their lives and thus the world for the better.

So I tell you this; different people need different knowledge.

Understanding this made me a happier and better person.

Be well.

[deepmind]

Yay Fight Club. We have a choice to define our lives by Having or by Becoming. There's elements of each in the other, but which is the means & which is the end? Our possessions & our roles DO say much about us, but they're NEVER the whole story. We make choices, but choices can be rethought, and so we become & re-become.

Ever wonder what happened with the unnamed protagonist after the end of the movie? What did his life look like after that (other than serious prison time)?

[crimsonsamuraiftw]

In the immortal words of Tyler Durden, "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your khakis. F off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may. The things you own end up owning you."

[squiresoft]

this was the first ted talk i started fast forwarding through. kinda boring. maybe it's a good sign...