What will be our Pantheon? Bran Ferren gives an idea at TED2014 Blog

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What will be our Pantheon? Bran Ferren gives an idea at TED2014 Blog

What will be our Pantheon? Bran Ferren gives an idea at TED2014 Blog

Contributed by Daragh Byrne to Press and Online Articles on 01 Apr 2014

“The ingredients for the next Pantheons are all around us, waiting for visionary people with multidisciplinary skills to make them,” says Ferren. “These people don’t spontaneously pop into existence, they need to be nurtured. Just as my grandpa did, and just as my parents did, we need to encourage [kids] to find their own path, even if it is very different from our own.” He concludes with a beautiful thought. “Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering,” says Ferren. “They are essential to what makes us special.”


Read more at http://blog.ted.com/2014/03/18/what-will-be-our-pantheon-bran-ferren-gives-an-idea-at-ted2014/

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