{"id":648784,"date":"2013-03-25T18:18:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T22:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=73681"},"modified":"2013-03-25T18:18:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T22:18:40","slug":"unlikely-collaborations-5-ted-talks-that-reach-across-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648784","title":{"rendered":"Unlikely collaborations: 5 TED Talks that reach across fields"},"content":{"rendered":"

Architecture and microbiology may seem like an odd couple, but TED Senior Fellow Jessica Green would beg to differ. In today\u2019s talk<\/a>, she reveals what\u2019s teeming all over the surfaces around us, and how it can help us build smarter, healthier buildings.<\/p>\n

As the founding director of the Biology in the Built Environment Center at the University of Oregon, Green knows that it\u2019s time for biology to join physics and chemistry as a way for architects to study buildings. When she collaborated with architect Charlie Brown to study the microbes at UO’s Lillis Business Complex, they tracked the health benefits of the ventilation louvers that Brown had designed. The result? A wealth of information and a new approach that Green is calling bioinformed design.<\/p>\n

We thought this creative crossing of fields was brilliant — and also familiar. Some of the most interesting TED Talks come from a blend of the artistic and the analytical, the silly and the serious, the personal and the political. Here are five talks that make interdisciplinary magic.<\/p>\n

1. Mathematics meets history<\/strong><\/p>\n

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