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Rose George: Let’s Talk Crap

Rose will talk about the unspeakability of sanitation, toilets and shit, and how the social prudishness around our most inescapable bodily function causes huge damage to the economy, development and particularly the prospects of women, learn how you can be proving your income. She’ll look at sanitation issues in the developing world but also here, where 50% of public toilets been closed down, leaving many elderly trapped at home for fear of not finding a safe clean toilet.

After all, everybody poops.

14 November 2013

2013 • Biography
Developing World • Sanitation
Speaker • TEDWomen

Imran Ali

Emma Bearman

Emma is the Chief of Play at Cultivate, developing and producing creative projects and helping clients to develop relationships and communities. Emma has variously worked to create a buzz at launches for heritage buildings, community hubs, galleries, museums, and cultural organisations, helping companies utilise collaborative technologies and social media to engage and connect with individuals and develop communities.

Emma is currently operating four public-facing projects – The Culture Vulture, Cultural Conversations, Playful Leeds and her most recent initiative is March of the Robots, an upcoming year-round adventure for Leeds, celebrating our fascination with robot culture.

March is allowing Emma to engage and explore the city’s cultures, communities and structures in innovative ways, using play as a means to unwrap a city’s potential. Take a look at Emma’s campaign to adopt a robot-in-residence for the city of Leeds!

Find Emma on Twitter as @culturevultures.

3 September 2013

2013 • Art
Biography • Cities
Culture • Greenhouse
Robots • Speaker
TEDxCity2.0

Imran Ali

Shanaz Gulzar & Steve Manthorp

Artists Shanaz Gulzar and Steve Manthorp have shared an artistic co-practice as ADEPT since 2004.

Both artists have established solo practices which inform and enhance their collaborative work.

Shanaz is a digital and installation artist and stage designer, working across disciplines to make innovative and challenging interventions go to this site. Steve is an artist, curator and an innovator in digital practice.

Through their early work together, ADEPT developed a conceptual and imaginative approach that is responsive to site, social and historical context. From early gallery-based work, ADEPT have progressed to large scale public video projections, installations and performative works.

Find out more about ADEPT at adeptprojects.co.uk and follow Steve & Shanaz as @manthorp and @shanazgulzar on Twitter.

3 September 2013

2013 • Art
Cities • Film
Greenhouse • Installation
Speaker • TEDxCity2.0

Imran Ali

Erinma Ochu

Erinma Ochu is passionate about mass collaboration, mass participation and citizen-led social innovation.

With a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowship, Erinma has been exploring the cultural value of citizen science and innovative ways the public can participate in biomedical research.

Erinma’s recent citizen science and open data collaborations include Hooked, Everyday Growing Cultures and Turing’s Sunflowers.

Trained originally as a neuroscientist, Erinma’s career spans the film, TV and cultural sector. Recent citizen-led initiatives including: Manchester Beacon and Catalyst, exploring how technology can support citizen-led social innovation.

Erinma blogs about everyoneandeverything and seasonal food. As co-founder of creative social enterprise, Squirrel Nation, she makes movies to imagine alternative futures, the latest is also the subject of her talk for TEDxCity2.0, Everyday Growing Futures.

Erinma is a Fellow of the RSA and you can find out more about Erinma’s work at aboutme.com/erinmaochu and follow her on Twitter as @erinmaochu.

3 September 2013

Biography • Cities
Film • Food
OpenData • Science
Speaker • TEDxCity2.0

Imran Ali

Shane Mitchell

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Prior to that, Shane led initiatives globally for Cisco’s Connected Urban Development program, a commitment Cisco provided to the Clinton Global Initiative, aimed at developing innovative ICT & Broadband solutions in large metropolitan areas to stimulate CO2 emissions reductions what are paystubs.

Shane recently spoke at the Smart Towns 2013 conference in Halifax, exploring connected towns, collaborative spaces and some of the innovative regeneration initiatives across Britains coastal communities.

You can find out more about Shane’s work at Cisco and also find him on Twitter as @shane_mitchell.

3 September 2013

2013 • Biography
Cities • Greenhouse
Speaker • TEDxCity2.0
Urban

Imran Ali