My notes from Tedx York yesterday

DK –

• famers coming in from the rural areas to rebuild Christchurch (like they did when cities were first thought of..) #eqnz
• they received 120,000 ideas of how to rebuild the city.
• used a student army, rebuild, reimagine

Charles Cecil – technology the great disruptor

• "Half a million new android handsets are turned on every single day".. #tedxyork
• interactive entertainment is now bigger than film, and catching up music (is this right?)..
• the Sony PlayStation as a turning point in gaming; the publishers gained the power over the programmers - We can now work directly with audiences, we don't need the middle men..
• What about games for education/ teaching empathy etc..?
• all of a sudden everyone is talking about how we can make communities, how we can engage & participate in the future of our world..
• free - changes everything. It grows the market & develop new markets, makes multiple pricing structures (with different supply & demand points)
• "We now work directly with our audience again... which is incredibly liberating and incredibly empowering"
• "It's not just the marketing rulebook that's being ripped up, but also the economics"
• "The supply and demand curve... is irrelevant; when you give a game away for free, you lose nothing."

Abbhay – digital identity

• reflecting on the landscape with the memory being stored on the landscape (twitter shining a spotlight on a village fete)
• fairness commission – could we set up a think tank of excluded people..?

Kristine Alford – intractable stories

• Family Intervention Projects & the role of extended networks..?
• the new world is not old versus new, it is old things with new things..
• Could the third sector be a tent for people who care about social change..?
• “Steven Johnson http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html
• innovation is a slow hunch building over time. ideas from separate fields coming together – (ideas having sex)
• crowdsourcing micro financing on a pay it forwards basis..

Tasso – murder in the dark

• art is the vision of where things might go
• games using sound – the hearing impaired people can use equally well..

Alex Kelly –
red phone boxes = potential and permanency

Mariam – Africa gathering @mjamme
peer to peer development with Africa
baobab tree = sharing (community self-help)

roger burrows – 'playour'

• sociology = the aggregation of social life. (behavioural economics)
• facebook breakup times/ rhapsody music choices/ complaints via mysociety/ “we feel fine” searches on google. real time research methods

yatterbox
is brilliant.

baba isreal –

• how technology can challenge distance between people (marriage)
• what's it feel like to be on a stage when everyone is cheering you on.. #elsie
• “if the dogs on the stage, then the dogs on the stage”
• projecting onto gauze = lack of scale, lack of separation (= lack of social hierarchy)
• there are many me's – bodies stretched across seas..
• from improvisation to choreography

• • • @babaisrael

• a layered collaboration using the Twitter feed - and a freestyle rap
• Mixed Movements video on YouTube:http://t.co/J8tJB4V #TEDxYork

@hannahnicklin

• technology has changed how we exist in our cities - in personal, private and public nodes
• Warren Ellis - "We're giving the gift of the digital city to our ruling classes"
• "Flyposting is illegal, Google Map pins are not
• Do we want our digital city to be made up of walled gardens?

Peter Gregson and restaurants

• P Gregson on restaurants: "Everything they do is based around sharing... they have a unique culture."
• As an artist, we need a view on the world, not a position in the market
• it's not time to blame our audiences, but give them something more exciting to listen to.
• I'd like to see the link removed between excellence and exclusion

Julien Smith speaks from Montréal

• We are the first generation of history to be participants, creators and programmers of the media"
• You have more control and more freedom than any time in history. The question is, are you actually doing it

@billt "The Internet Wants Your Brain".

• I believe for every mental event, there is a physical event... what goes on in your nervous system is you
• We are born illiterate - we have an inate dispotion to speak but reading is something everyone must be taught

Thanks to tweets from @nornironyorkie. (I did a vox pop about the third sector, and linking good new ideas and technology to the hundred and thousands of organisations who are doing good things. It will be up soon at www.tedxyork.com)