Listen Again: The Power Of Spaces

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Original broadcast date: July 24, 2020. How do spaces shape the human experience? In what ways do our rooms, homes, and buildings give us meaning and purpose? This hour, TED speakers explore the power of the spaces we make and inhabit.Guests include architect Michael Murphy, musician David Byrne, artist Es Devlin, and architect Siamak Hariri.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Manouche.
0:01.8	Uh, I had a weird experience.
0:03.9	I recently went inside a coffee shop without a mask.
0:08.4	It felt very, very strange.
0:10.4	I was making sure to stay six feet away from people.
0:13.3	I was checking the air ventilation.
0:15.5	Things I never would have done before last year.
0:19.3	We all experienced places differently now.
0:23.7	But what about the people who think about structures and space all of the time?
0:29.7	That's what our episode, The Power of Spaces, is about.
0:33.6	How people like musician David Byrne, set designer, Esdevilin, architects, Michael Murphy,
0:39.6	and C.M.A. Cariri, how they shape space to move us, to change how we experience the world.
0:48.4	It is a great episode.
0:50.0	So please enjoy it for the first time, or again, but with your altered perspective on spaces.
0:57.2	It originally aired in July 2020.
1:00.3	Oh, and meanwhile, I just wanted to let you know.
1:03.0	It's summer, but the team and I are hard at work on new episodes coming soon and in the
1:08.4	fall.
1:09.4	So thanks for being patient with us, and thank you, as always, for being here.
1:15.0	This is The Ted Radio Hour.
1:19.2	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
1:21.4	Our job now is to dream big.
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