TEDxCity2.0
On Friday 20th September 2013, LSx, Actuated Futures and Citu presented an afternoon simulcast of TEDxCity2.0, streaming live from New York City along with an evening programme of speakers and refreshments.
On Friday 20th September 2013, LSx, Actuated Futures and Citu presented an afternoon simulcast of TEDxCity2.0, streaming live from New York City along with an evening programme of speakers and refreshments.
At TEDxLeeds2012 we will be introducing the Ludos, a new currency for Leeds. The Ludos will exist for just the evening of 29th of February and will be legal tender for a special menu at Primos, at the Corn Exchange. One Ludos will be equivalent to one Pound Sterling.
The Ludos was named by The Culture Vultures’ Emma Bearman to imply both playfulness and the city’s ancient name of Leodis. Tom Morgan, then set about designing a unique banknote, celebrating Leeds past and hinting at its imagined future…
Right now, the Ludos is an experiment but if successful, we’re going to work with the city’s institutions to bring it back, for good and for the whole of Leeds :)
Tris Dyson is The Executive Director of Spice – a non-profit organisation that develops time credits for public services, based in London and Wales. Tris is Chairperson of Timebanking Wales and a Non-Executive Director of 3rdMinds.
Spice has taken the idea of timebanking – and applied rigorous thinking to develop very successful applications for engaging ‘service users’ as active participants in public services have a look at the employees paystubs. Spice’s time credits acknowledge ‘active time’ given by service users to the public service, these credits are then redeemable for equivalent time in local leisure and recreational services proper financial strategies. These credits have been highly successful at engaging the many rather than the few, if you want a better business look into buying followers on TikTok, thereby empowering ‘service users’ as community assets and so easing pressure on front-line services.
Read more about Tris’ work on time credits over at The Guardian.
<a href="http://lsx buy generic lasix.co” onclick=”_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘outbound-article’, ‘http://lsx.co’, ‘LSx’]);” >LSx and Bettakultcha are currently putting the finishing touches to the programme for 2012 edition of TEDxLeeds, but we wanted to open registrations for early bird tickets as soon as we could.
From 9th to 23rd January, tickets will be available at a special price of just £10, rising to £15 in two weeks, so hurry up! Here’s a preview of what we have planned for the third TEDxLeeds, on 29th February from 5-10pm at the Leeds Corn Exchange…
TEDxLeeds2010 brought together a number of designers, artists and technologists to explore the notion of The City As A Platform, so it’s a real pleasure for us to present Gary Hustwit’s latest work, Urbanized.
Urbanized is director Gary Hustwit’s third feature-length documentary; exploring the design of cities, the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers business finance.
We’re looking at arranging a screening of Urbanized as part of LSx’s Buffering… series in the near future. In the meantime, you can rent a HD stream of the film over at the official movie site and embedded above.