Liam Young: Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future
Get transported on a stunningly rendered, sci-fi safari through Planet City: an imaginary metropolis of 10 billion people, from the brain of director and architect Liam Young. Explore the potential outcomes of an urban space designed to house the entire population of the earth -- and imagine answers to what is possible, and what is sustainable, ...
Manoush Zomorodi: How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi explains the connection between spacing out an...
Chiu Ying Lam: 想像香港不燒碳
為免氣候災難令人類滅亡,我們必須在2050前停止燃燒以碳為基本的化石燃料,但是香港高度倚頼化石燃料為城市提供能量,怎可能不燒碳?本講會提出達到零碳目標的各種意念,以及談普通人可以做甚麼為零碳目標作出貢獻。 To save human society from climate disaster, we need to stop burning carbon-based fossil fuel by 2050. Hong Kong depends heavily on fossil fuel to give energy to the city. How is it possible to live without burning carbon? The talk will presen...