A platform for interaction
with some really interesting people
from the audience, staff, and speakers.
at the American School of Kosova
Auditorium
// MAP
*Sendertimi is one of those singular words in a language that lose their character in translation. It’s meaning in Albanian is: bring to life, implement, fulfill. “Fulfill the ideal, the goal, the wish”.
The rapid construction of cities and villages in Kosovo has given us new buildings, wider roads and new coffee places. The physical change of the urban site is not the only modification of the Kosovar society’s state. Like the investors of the construction industry, actors of different fields have interfered with the structure of Kosovo’s society in practically any kind of aspect or sphere. The models used in governance, economic reform, education, architecture, art and technology were borrowed and modified or created specifically for the local context. Sometimes adequate and sometimes not, these social designs have changed the country’s scenery.
Like the unfinished houses, that can be seen on all the main streets of Kosovo, many times these social designs and changes start out with no good planning from actors that lack abilities. The citizens express this dichotomy among the very ideas applied in their country, while sipping coffees after coffees.
In its second edition, TEDxPrishtina will offer a safe arena, where thoughts and ideas on social design and changes from the last decade and the future one, will transfer from a coffee place to a stimulating space, among a selected audience from the community of the enthusiast of ideas worth spreading.
At TEDxPrishtina 2012, firm and finished constructions and well-thought plans will be presented by artists, publicists, academics, in addition to new and well-known names of different fields.
As in the first edition, TEDxPrishtina aims at pushing the audience and the wider communities to analyze, discuss, and take with them from the conference provocative and alternative ideas about the daily issues.
To build with a half-witted vision is not enough. At TEDxPrishtina 2012, ndërtimi (building) is transformed into SEndërtim (realization).