Home - Visual Thinking Strategies Lectures - DanielTammet.NET Past schedule Daniel Tammet is represented by the JLA Agency (UK/Europe) and the David Lavin Agency (North America). He has spoken at a number of events, including: Idea Festival, Louisville, Kentucky, October 2010 TED, 'Different Ways of Knowing', Long Beach, California, March 2011 International School of Geneva, October 2011 Ciudad de la Ideas Festival, Mexico, November 2011 IBM Smarter Analytics, Paris, June 2012 Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2012 TEDxParis, Paris, October 2012 The Royal Society of Arts, London, November 2012 Agnes Scott College, Decatur Georgia October 2007 Shippensburg University President’s Lecture Series, Pennsylvania, October 2007 Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, October 2007 Lorain County Community College, Meeting Great Minds, Elyria Ohio, October 2007 Adrian College, Michigan, October 2007 Ways With Words Literary Festival, Dartington, Cornwall, July 2006 Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2006
A Wilting Dreamscape That You Can Walk Inside Most sensible people know that there are big changes going on in our world--changes in the climate, in the economy, in society at large and how it’s structured--but it can be hard to really internalize those changes when you’re just reading about them in a newspaper. Sometimes, things need to be experienced--to be felt--to be understood. Which means that sometimes, you just have to let people walk into a big melty room and let them figure out what it means for themselves. That’s one way to understand Le Cercle Fermé, an installation by artists Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil that served as Luxembourg’s entry in last year’s Venice Biennale. The official explanation for the installation talks a lot about spaces--how spaces are "in crisis," how the march of civilization is constantly redefining the spaces we’re familiar with, like our homes and offices, and how these issues of space are central to Le Cercle Fermé. [Hat tip: Ignant.de]
Thinking Visually An Essay by Einstein -- The World As I See It "How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... "I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. "My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.
designjunction 2012 at London Design Festival Dezeen promotion: designjunction 2012 will take place at the Sorting Office, 21-31 New Oxford Street, London WC1 from 19 to 23 September during the London Design Festival and registration for free visitor passes is now open. The design showcase will feature over 100 brands exhibiting in the industrial 1960s former postal sorting office - click here for the full exhibitor line-up. A retail area housed in a dedicated structure will feature a range of pop-up shops including our own Dezeen Watch Store pop-up. Canteen restaurant and Transport for London will create a dining space referencing London Transport's old canteens (above). Pecha Kucha talks will be held on 21 September and the line-up of speakers is to be announced soon. The information below is from the organisers: Date: 19 - 23 September Venue: The Sorting Office, 21-23 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1AP The Brands Flash Factories Retail Therapy Pop-up Eateries Entertainment www.thedesignjunction.co.uk
Visual thinking school Visual thinking is a way to organize your thoughts and improve your ability to think and communicate. It’s a way to expand your range and capacity by going beyond the linear world of the written word, list and spreadsheet, and entering the non-linear world of complex spacial relationships, networks, maps and diagrams. It’s also about using tools — like pen and paper, index cards and software tools — to externalize your internal thinking processes, making them more clear, explicit and actionable. Why is visual thinking important? There’s more information at your fingertips than ever before, and yet people are overwhelmed by it. We think in pictures. Think you can’t draw? Squiggle birds (I learned squiggle birds from my friend Chris Glynn). So why is visual thinking important? The whirl. Visualization is increasingly used in business and science to simplify complexity: a picture is worth a thousand words. Drawing is a natural process for thinking, exploring ideas and learning. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers For those who have asked and those who may, this collection of links for writers, researchers and the terminally curious is not, was never intended to be, and will never be the all-inclusive stash of every possible link fitting our slapdash criteria for what belongs here. We select sites with some consideration and thought for usefulness, depth, interest and je ne sais quoi and we try not to offer fifty different links to "manuscript submission." Sometimes we find a really cool site on a subject we already cover and mull over which link to keep and which to set free, sometimes we keep both and add a third. We lean toward linking to cool sites maintained by people we've met in the ether, but don't use a friend's site if there's a better site elsewhere. We don't link to just anybody and seldom link to commercial sites such as "Learn to Write in Five Days" or "We Will Publish Your Book" unless there is some -- no, make that a lot of -- free, useful content. Feel free to suggest links.