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Caitlin Holman: How game design can help schooling

The world is changing rapidly but models of decades-old schooling still influence educational systems in ways that leave students with few reasons to truly excel. Education researcher Caitlin Holman explains how game design principles engineered to keep players motivated can be co-opted to revitalize schools and improve educational outcomes.

Jesse Schell | TED Speaker

Beyond Facebook, beyond consoles and even computer screens, games are becoming the medium for everyday life, says game designer Jesse Schell.

Game designer

Cornelia Geppert | TED Speaker

Cornelia Geppert creates innovative, visually original video games that explore the depths of human emotion.

Artist, video game creator

Brenda Romero | TED Speaker

Brenda Romero designs games that turn some of history's most tragic lessons into interactive, emotional experiences.

Game designer

Amy Green | TED Speaker

Amy Green creates narrative video games that focus on innovative stories.

Video game designer

Brendan Constantine: The Opposites Game

A classroom erupts into a war of words as students grapple with a seemingly simple prompt: what is the opposite of a gun? This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. [A TED-Ed Production, a film by ...

Sarah Murray | TED Speaker

Sarah Murray is building a future of democratized design and construction.

Digital housing developer

Karoliina Korppoo | TED Speaker

Inspired by classic city simulation games, Finnish designer Karoliina Korppoo and her fellow game developers at Colossal Order are infusing a venerable gaming genre with fresh perspectives.

Game designer

Bran Ferren | TED Speaker

Once known for entertaining millions by creating special effects for Hollywood, theme parks and Broadway, Applied Minds cofounder Bran Ferren now solves impossible tech challenges with previously unimaginable inventions.

Technology designer

Christopher C. Deam | TED Speaker

A fascination with clean lines, modern materials and tiny houses made Christopher C. Deam the perfect designer to rethink the Airstream trailer right down to its aluminum skin.

Designer

Sarah Murray: A playful solution to the housing crisis

Frustrated by her lack of self-determination in the housing market, Sarah Murray created a computer game that allows home buyers to design a house and have it delivered to them in modular components that can be assembled on-site. Learn how her effort is putting would-be homeowners in control of the largest purchase of their lives -- as well as c...

Niti Bhan | TED Speaker

Through exploratory and human-centered research, Niti Bhan discovers and makes tangible pragmatic opportunities for sustainable and inclusive value creation.

Human-centered strategist

Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game

In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.

Cameron Sinclair | TED Speaker

2006 TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair is co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit that seeks architecture solutions to global crises -- and acts as a conduit between the design community and the world's humanitarian needs.

Co-founder, Architecture for Humanity

Playlist: Let's get nerdy (11 talks)

Nerd out with these talks that prove you can use all-time classics like Harry Potter and Star Wars to help explain the real world.

Curated by TED · 11 talks

Sebastien de Halleux | TED Speaker

Sebastien de Halleux is a technology entrepreneur with a lifelong passion for building impactful businesses.

Entrepreneur, explorer

David Baker | TED Speaker

David Baker designs new biomolecules (proteins) from first principles to address 21st-century challenges in health and technology.

Computational biologist

Stefan Sagmeister | TED Speaker

Renowned for album covers, posters and his recent book of life lessons, designer Stefan Sagmeister invariably has a slightly different way of looking at things.

Graphic designer

Gemma Jackson: How I bring imagined worlds to life

When we think about a movie or TV show's unique visuals, we tend to associate it with directors or cinematographers. But who picks the furniture that sits in your favorite character's home -- or decides whether a palace is brutalist or minimalist? In this eye-opening talk, "Game of Thrones" production designer Gemma Jackson explains what goes in...

Shimpei Takahashi: Play this word game to come up with original ideas

Shimpei Takahashi always dreamed of designing toys. But when he started work as a toy developer, he found that the pressure to produce squashed his creativity. In this short, funny talk, Takahashi describes how he got his ideas flowing again, and shares a simple word game anyone can play to generate new ideas. (In Japanese with English subtitles.)

Peter Molyneux: Meet Milo, the virtual boy

Peter Molyneux demos Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft's Kinect controller. Perceptive and impressionable like a real 11-year-old, the virtual boy watches, listens and learns -- recognizing and responding to you.

Sean Follmer: Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it

What will the world look like when we move beyond the keyboard and mouse? Interaction designer Sean Follmer is building a future with machines that bring information to life under your fingers as you work with it. In this talk, check out prototypes for a 3D shape-shifting table, a phone that turns into a wristband, a deformable game controller a...

Dan Gibson | TED Speaker

Dan Gibson leads a new breed of bioengineers, called genome writers, who use DNA to design and build new products powering the next industrial revolution.

Genome writer

David Rockwell | TED Speaker

Architect David Rockwell draws on his love of drama and spectacle to create fantastic, high-impact restaurants, cultural facilities, airline terminals, theater sets -- and playgrounds.

Architect, experience designer

Johnny Lee: Free or cheap Wii Remote hacks

Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.

David Perry: Are games better than life?

Game designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotional experiences -- more involving and meaningful to some than real life. With an excerpt from Michael Highland's film "As Real as Your Life."

Brenda Laurel: Why not make video games for girls?

At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks: Why are all the top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years researching the world of girls (and shares amazing interviews and photos) to create a game that girls would love.

Kio Stark | TED Speaker

Kio Stark explores the myriad ways encounters with strangers impact our lives.

Stranger enthusiast

Chris Anderson | TED Speaker

After a long career in journalism and publishing, Chris Anderson became the curator of the TED Conference in 2002 and has developed it as a platform for identifying and disseminating ideas worth spreading.

Head of TED

Paul Bennett | TED Speaker

As a creative director at Ideo, Paul Bennett reminds us that design need not invoke grand gestures or sweeping statements to be successful, but instead can focus on the little things in life, the obvious, the overlooked.

Designer; creative director, Ideo