The annual TED conference wraps up Saturday. It kicked off in Vancouver this week with a collection of short talks from this year's TED Fellows — a group of "rising stars" from across disciplines and around the world. They talks have become must-see sessions for those in the know, as they feature people doing cutting edge work that hasn't yet broken out. One theme that quickly emerged from this year's crop of Fellows: fighting systemic racism in the United States.
Two TED Fellows, artist Paul Rucker and designer Antionette Carroll, offered very different approaches for how to identify and address problems that are, Rucker says, "woven into the fabric" of our history.
As a black woman, Carroll explained, she's experienced racial and gender oppression, experiences that have made her, "a stronger, more critical designer." And as a designer and social entrepreneur, she has an understanding of the process of designing, or "object making" – think web sites, clothes, and buildings. She realized that, "design was more than just a tangible, what you can touch, but the intangible, what you experience, what you see and what you feel."
[For more on this story by NINA GREGORY, go to https://www.npr.org/sections/c...ion-from-ted-fellows]
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