Pic: Ross Langdon and his partner Elif Yavuz.
What TEDx* said about Ross:
Ross Langdon grew up in rural south-eastern Tasmania, learning how to make stuff.
After studying environmental design, Ross travelled extensively and worked for a variety of established and well-known architects before co-founding his own design studio, Regional Associates: http://www.regionalassociates.eu/
Ross’ passion is unconventional sustainable design solutions, and he has an on-going interest in developing new models for ecologically and socially sustainable tourism infrastructures in environmentally-sensitive locations.
He views collaboration as an essential element of delivering successful projects. By collaboration, Ross means not only how the creative process is organised, but also who is involved – clients, consultants as well as the broader community within which projects are located.
With emphasis on the local rather than the universal, Regional Associates produce site-specific designs that draw on the diversity of traditional materials and construction technologies inherent to a given site.
Ross is currently working in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania on the construction of a number of Eco-Lodges and smaller cultural projects including a yacht club, dive centre and a community training centre.
From, Introducing The Speakers, TEDxKraków. Poland, September 2012
What TEDxKraków was all about:
There’s always more to things than meets the eye, but we so rarely take the time to look at what’s really going on or what it takes to make life work. At TEDxKrakow 2012 we’ll look behind the curtain of the apparently mundane and everyday to get a glimpse of some of the unexpected, fascinating, worrying, intricate and maybe even repulsive, aspects of life that are usually invisible to us.
All about TEDx: TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan “ideas worth spreading”. TED was founded in 1984 as a one-off event. The annual conference began in 1990, in Monterey, California.
