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Idea Kentucky: Getting past a commodity economy
Jeffrey Manber is a New York entrepreneur who works around the world helping develop commercial applications for space and space travel. In his remarks to the Idea Kentucky conference today, he focused...
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Seeking transformational ideas for Kentucky
The afternoon session of the Idea Kentucky conference was basically a big brainstorming session. After hearing from the speakers, the 240 or so attendees passed around microphones and expressed their...
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How would you handle the bailout?
I’m sitting here at the Idea Festival this morning thinking that some of the world’s smartest people shouldn’t be in Louisville today, but in Washington helping figure out how to design the Wall Street...
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South Africans win first $100,000 design prize
A South African architecture firm that has pioneered simple, affordable housing that poor Capetown families can largely build themselves has won the first $100,000 Curry Stone Design Prize. The new...
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A prize for using design to help humanity
There is no shortage of international prizes honoring flashy, provocative, beautiful or breathtaking architecture and design. The new $100,000 Curry Stone Design Prize, administered by the University...
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Looking to the past for signs of the future
Sometimes, it’s best to ignore conventional wisdom and look to the past for guidance. The past week’s financial uncertainty set the stage for Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the controversial book The...
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Teller speaks, and reveals what is behind magic
Teller, the quiet half of the famous magic team Penn & Teller, started his speech at the Idea Festival by pulling a carpenter’s hammer from his coat pocket and placing it at the edge of the stage....
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Imagine Ohio River bridge as public art
Beligan artist and designer Arne Quinze is known for his large public art installations, many of which involve fluid masses of colorful wooden planks. Quinze spoke at the Idea Festival on Friday, and...
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Bjarke Ingels: Imagining what a building can be
Bjarke Ingels of Denmark, considered one of the world’s best young architects, gave a dazzling presentation at the Idea Festival. In discussing project after project that his Copenhagen-based firm has...
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Learning to forgive the unforgivable and move on
Immaculee Ilibagiza. Photo by Tom Eblen Immaculee Ilibagiza lost most of her family in the tribal genocide that gripped her native Rwanda in the 1994. She would have been killed had not she and seven...
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