Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture

[@theinternet1424]

A perfect example of the kind of lectures we need today.

[@AnaVerona_]

2020

[@cashi4225]

2021

[@sayyidsharafu7026]

2023

[@NikosAntzoulatos]

2024

[@TheTuber955]

Architecture would be a whole new thing if every thought about it like he does!

[@SikhiArt]

I like how he's talking about being humble and obtaining wisdom from nature.

[@endymcg]

I like how he puts it "a challenge to our ingenuity". Great talk, thumbs up.

[@SpiderWaffle]

possibly my favorite TED talk of all time

[@abhishekbadani6803]

i think this video needs a lot more sharing and a lot more likes

[@vinayseth1114]

+Abhishek Badani Agreed!

[@RoseBudpony1]

Abhishek Badani it has waaaay more likes.

[@XxInlalaland22]

this is incredible, what he's talking about is my dream

[@Methor8]

this is exactly why I love and study biology , we can learn so much from nature

[@Zolipants]

this kind of material kids need i schools

[@JUNIMUSICAS]

Knowledge is power. We study so that we can make the world a better place. Once we transform it in a way that we're killing it, we gotta stop, look, think about it and study again for new solutions to new problems.

[@hardleecure]

it's a total shame that we as humans don't get along enough to make things like was just seen in the video more abundant. It's brilliant and needed.

[@JornikHendrix]

one of the shortest presentation of ideas on TedTalks. I believe in nature as does he, as we all should. Reconnect and we shall live prosperously. Really inspiring!!! thumbs up

[@kokofan50]

One thing I love about this is that he doesn't say we have give stuff but have more, do it better, and chaeper. Going green or your choice of word should not be about giving up things but getting newer better smarter things

[@MarkDHead]

this is what we soo much need in these times.

[@ZeroRacer]

I have to say, this advertising they do at the end actually got me to listen to all of it. I just spent the entire time reading comments and talking to a friend about the video while this commercial was on.

[@PolytheisticDeities]

this was one of the best TED videos in a while... WOW

[@TheDenisedrake]

Fabulous! It's great to hear such positive language about environmental issues! Nature is so amazing. It's looks as if all those systems were designed that way.

[@guitarplayer1293]

absolutely brilliant, we need more people working on things like these that's why i subscribed to TED, thx for the video!!!

[@shreyasraut6224]

perfect.....absolutely perfect....

[@Bear-zx9fl]

one of the best talks ever.

[@MrReiniC]

Its all sounds great, but i would love to know how much energy it requires to produce ETFE... and if the waste produced when creating it is higher than that of glass. Because if its more than glass... then it defies the whole thesis and point of being sustainable.

[@robelzeray100]

WOW, I'm leaning to biomimicry for my barch thesis and this is a big motivation

[@skelotom]

Hope your thesis went well! I have mine this year.

[@dismutased]

Brilliant! Iove these types of talks!

[@DuttonWebb]

Best talk in a while. Perhaps I see my own career

[@MsGnor]

Thanks Michael - awesome talk.

[@EndureFocusEngageDie]

one of the best vids on youtube for sure.

[@saultube44]

Eloquent, direct to the point, simple yet fool of wisdom, the guy is spectacular and thanks so much for mentioning my Country Bolivia with such a great connotation, because is humiliating and unfair that my Country is referenced only as fine cocaine producer, my Country is a normal one.

[@MrFEA21]

the best talk I have ever seen

[@Jotto999]

Now that's a TedTalk! I keep hearing great things about biomimickery. Humanity should gain lots of progress from this. To see the Sahara being reforested during my lifetime would blow me away. I'm confident humanity will make it through the next few decades, save for a cataclysmic event, like a meteorite (or WMD misuse). The amount of innovations and discoveries currently underway give me loads of optimism.

[@808mauna]

Da vinci and Antoni Gaudi used nature and incorporated it into their architecture,inventions and art. We could learn so much from Nature... 1:00

[@sandeepcoepcivil]

A Good TED Talk after a loooong time..

[@worryphree]

@volound I'm not sure how much I agree with behe's particular version of "Intelligent design," but I must admit, nature seems pretty darned intelligent!

[@Truthiness231]

@gaiagale I concur completely; after seeing Paul's speech at TED on Six Ways Fungi Can Save The World, I became an amateur mycologist almost overnight and have learned to take care of quite a few species now. It's a lot like gardening but with a lot more water and sterility, and the payoff are foods that taste like animals but have the health benefits we typically assume were plant-only. Shiitake and oyster mushrooms are fantastic cooked; haven't had the shaggy mane, but I think I will now ^.^

[@Aresftfun]

We need to put this effect into planning. Right now.

[@Mattjhumun]

i had to do this cuz of school

[@TEMPproductions]

I'm trying to find a second like button because this is an amazing TED talk

[@Convergentassembly]

Finally - a TED video where I understood the time line of the Rolex Watch.

[@smokeyjon2000]

Straight up, this was a great talk

[@Neanderthalcouzin]

!) Radical increases in resource efficiency. 2) Closed-loop system. 3) Solar economy. Lets get to it!

[@turuanu]

Way to go, Lex Luthor! Nice video, inspiring and full of hope.

[@txdmsk]

What a fine talk.

[@majinspy]

@lockcraw Indeed, and this is the type of specific proposal that should be looked at. Of course, I'm sure there are a myriad of problems, but its something worth fiddling with. I would much prefer to hear something down-to-earth like that than something that seems to suggest we could absorb even a 1/10th of a percent of the total solar energy that bathes our planet.

[@branimirmarold7343]

respect!

[@rezashishehgaran]

I just loved it! ❤️💐 Would be great to collaborat with more people!

[@roidroid]

@PVanderston black both absorbs and radiates heat faster than any other colour. at night there is no sunlight to absorb, so the black just radiates heat away from itself very efficiently.

[@PANMESTIGUS]

Ill be working with Paul in July

[@KuraSourTakanHour]

I would ammend "solar" economy to renewable economy, there are many eco-friendly energy-gen technologies

[@kokofan50]

@Silverstarlightt Its not the big companies that would fight this its the curnt system. A closed loop's efficiency would let it under cut the curnt liner system. In some US cities the start of a closed loop system has begone. A closed loop works on both large and small sacle.

[@thewinematcher]

Wow... this guy is genius. If only people didn't suck so much we could actually go ahead with this...

[@HamsterPants522]

These are great ideas, but how do we make it happen? In an old TED speech given by Bjorn Lomborg, he spoke about how to prioritize our focuses in saving the world. He made so much sense, but once again it's not as easy as just talking about it. How can people contribute to such a cause? Where would they look?

[@Neanderthalcouzin]

@dootzky ditto. I am not proud of a gender, nationality, *race*, ethnicity, and so on. No-one ever did anything to earn those, they were just born into it. Its brilliant ideas like this that matter.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

Resource Based Economy, we need that, the rest will come.

[@TehMr]

we still are a part from nature,we just want to develop our own nature.

[@zydomason]

very interesting, more talks like that, TED

[@2354jdkzolkol]

To naprawdę wspaniała architektura i co najważniejsze sprzyja rozpakowywaniu się naszej biologii, bo jest fraktalna.Możemy więc w pełni się rozwijać bo nasza naturalna energia nie jest w żaden sposób blokowana. No i możemy zauważyć, sposób w jaki wszystko ze sobą się wiąże, tworzenie pozytywnych pętli daje niesamowite możliwości. Takie technologie są nam bardzo, bardzo potrzebne, byśmy mogli wreszcie prawidłowo się rozwijać jako świadome społeczeństwo.

[@doloppost]

Great TED talk!

[@Aresftfun]

I was going to say that using carbon nanotubes, like the Japanese plan on doing with the pyramid(shimizu), but I think this is much more cost-efficient. Great work!

[@danikajharris]

my teacher is making me watch this.

[@roidroid]

@dookiecheez you know where this project would take off? Dubai. It has the desert/beach landscape, the money, and the will power. Perfect place to start

[@roidroid]

@MatsMinds plastic can be made from various renewables as well. i don't think he said anywhere in the video that he's going to be dropped in the desert naked, and he needs to build all his own tools, harvest all of his energy (starting with nothing!) and then create these things from scratch. He didn't say that. We CAN use already existing tools to create these things to reach our goals. It will take energy to create. They won't break-even instantly, no investment does that.

[@TheAvianos]

great talk

[@dogdammit6]

Very nice! Reminds me of Jacque Fresco's future city ideas in the Venus Project.

[@shravangattu5783]

🙏Thank you.

[@walkingmonument]

Weird long Rolex ad at the end

[@BrilIiance]

Truly inspired. Amazing.

[@Truthiness231]

@gaiagale Yup, I concur completely. That's one way in which our technology can account for; until we start building things on the microscopic scale, much of the rest of the technology we can squeeze from this method will have to wait. Fungi, for example: Paul Stamets is currently pushing for the use of mushrooms that eat "waste" (some microbes and fungi can even eat nuclear waste and nasty hydrocarbons); we don't have to re-engineer anything to make them work, we just put them on site.

[@SpinyNormanDinsdale]

The Fremen of Arakris would be so proud of this!

[@boriszlatkovdesign]

Interesting examples

[@silvercoin1111]

this was a fantastic talk...just like watching young Jacque Fresco:) great ideas!

[@silentFATAL]

brb, gotta go jump in 35,800 feet into the ocean. But that's ok. I have my RolexDeepSea Special! Also, this restored alot interest in urban design/planning and architecture. "This is not just possible, it's CRITICAL!"

[@thumbprint7150]

thank you; interesting and uplifting

[@saraswuati]

MINDBLOWING thank you!!!

[@Truthiness231]

@KemaTheAtheist I was just pointing out that just because we know of something in nature that's greater than our technology doesn't mean we can do anything about it. Just thought someone here should be pragmatic about this method of technology building... Speaking purely in terms of what they have found out how to do: fantastic! De-desertification, here we come! ^.^

[@kalabaris]

What kind of waste is produced from ETFE and is there a way to utilize the waste in some way. Or do you know of a possible alternative to ETFE?

[@LeonidasGGG]

I think this is just what we need. Unfortunately, technology costs money (to build, maintain, even repair) and most corporations and goverments (with their 4 year terms) don't think long term (10, 20, even 30 years) they want their buck now.

[@Melki]

I cried halfway watching this

[@AnaVerona_]

Neri Oxman and Michael Pawlyn should team up!

[@allurbase]

great talk!!!

[@cowpacino]

I'm studying chemistry and THIS is the reason why

[@IridescentAudio]

brilliant and exciting ideas

[@MotionArtist3D]

Fantastic!

[@roidroid]

@RickeyRamone the beetle flies towards forrest fires, from upto 80kms away. I think fire is necessary for it to breed or something.

[@SuperCuriouss]

If someone told me this guy is really Professor X, I would totally believe it !!

[@Pianofy]

I would want to contribute to this. Where to begin? Does anyone know?

[@AnuragAshok]

In that case, why not do it in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan (India)? That area is very stable and tranquility.

[@mrtn474]

wow that was awesome... i need a watch.. lol

[@TomekTQ]

@dootzky I think I've been watching some alternate universe version of TED where most talks are pretty interesting.

[@msMaliia]

brilliant! finally.

[@triciahingpit8310]

AMAZING..

[@ivankrizic9180]

Good job mate!

[@Urglab]

@HashDylan Agreed.

[@roidroid]

@MatsMinds They could be made of Mylar. Much like the inflated plastic film roof of the biodome. also: concentrated-solar furnaces can melt glass to make mirrors.

[@hugorolo517]

The Green Lex Luther!!

[@naybobdenod]

Brilliant

[@kimmytoday4396]

good job

[@roidroid]

@UnconformistSheep they sound technologically simple. seawater evaporators, solar concentrators, greenhouses. They sound expensive because you can append GIANT to the front of all of them. GIANT solar concentrators, GIANT seawater evaporators. The scale he's inevitably talking about is epic. It would be best to start small somewhere as a seed project, then gradually expand only as you can.

[@harishperumalla]

Awesome!

[@bdijkstra1982]

Does anyone know where that animation of earth's photosynthetic activity came from? Is it available somewhere?

[@semaJ455]

Inspiring!

[@SEThatered]

Can i mirror this video?