Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places

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10 жыл бұрын

In the center of Caracas, Venezuela, stands the 45-story "Tower of David," an unfinished, abandoned skyscraper. But about eight years ago, people started moving in. Photographer Iwan Baan shows how people build homes in unlikely places, touring us through the family apartments of Torre David, a city on the water in Nigeria, and an underground village in China. Glorious images celebrate humanity's ability to survive and make a home -- anywhere.
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@timfan2810 10 жыл бұрын

The conclusion to this session exemplifies the ingenuity of humans. Ignorance is abundant but creativity and innovation thrives. I enjoyed this very much. The bit about digging homes due to lack of materials is engineering at its finest. I wonder how they deal with heavy rains?

@brek5 10 жыл бұрын

Wow.....one of the most amazing TED talks I have seen in a while.....amazing.

@niory 9 жыл бұрын

This Ted talk is my favorite now ! wow I have faith in humans and their creative abilities despite their situations ! they inspired me !

@terrylovesenegal 10 жыл бұрын

Said with this adorable Dutch way of presenting things and burst out laughing as of 12:35. Hygiene is the biggest concern though about so many people living with seemingly no proper toilet sewer system in place. Thank you Iwan Baan for this presentation and your kindness.

@Oberonjames 10 жыл бұрын

Most of these are fairly impressive. Also, I was surprised that some of these people have nicer stuff than I do, lol.

@MoerreNoseshine 10 жыл бұрын

TED talks that deserve the attribute "great" have become rare, but this is finally one I found worthy of being part of my link collection and to be shared with others.

@CherylCold 6 жыл бұрын

I am from Scotland from a reasonably privileged background, worked in many countries from Libya to Eastern Europe, I now live in Eastern Europe working in Cabinda, Angola. I haven't experienced all you have but understand completely what you are saying. Thank you for a great speech.

@the_number_one 5 жыл бұрын

Please share me your instagram profile. Or blog/vlog. Very interesting

@lgreenberg20 10 жыл бұрын

so hard to imagine living without technology and basic resources. Speech flowed nicely with no distractions. added to favorites :)

@tomamacat 10 жыл бұрын

A very enlightening video. Thank Iwan Baan. Its nice to see human ingenuity at work.

@Poollz 10 жыл бұрын

amazing talk, even more amazing photos!

@CybranM 10 жыл бұрын

Really cool video, one of the most interesting TED talks in a long time

@jackbaker7476 10 жыл бұрын

One of the best TED talks I've watched on KZfaq, ingenious solutions to a problem which the world is experiencing

@ivovazov 10 жыл бұрын

Wonderfully done!!!

@cineck 10 жыл бұрын

Inspiring and heartwarming. Thanks!

@WILLNerb 10 жыл бұрын

These communities look really cool like something form my dreams! These could solve a lot of problems and create joy

@estailez 10 жыл бұрын

just MIND BLOWING!

@yugdarshan Жыл бұрын

This is an amazing talk

@MrBlueBee444 10 жыл бұрын

So I don't know what's up with TED all of a sudden uploading all of these urban design talks, but I'm loving it! Future urban planner right here

@daliagregorova1552 7 жыл бұрын

Really nice speech & Love your voice :)

@jadelau7453 10 жыл бұрын

This is just beautiful

@elisekhoury7718 5 жыл бұрын

Very impressive way of exploring these places!

@JurgenMeekel 10 жыл бұрын

Wonderful presentation Iwan…

@Gryffster 10 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed that. The world is a better place with Ted Talks.

@IcedPhoenix666 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, TED :)

@bgorley 10 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@IchNaturally 10 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@MRSketch09 10 жыл бұрын

This is an eye opening video in a way. . .

@user-bx3ce3wj1v 9 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. :) Also, wow, that Dutch accent is very powerful. :o You can hear the way and tones he uses to speak Dutch through his English.

@rileyhughes4537 8 жыл бұрын

Very very impressive good speech yew

@riderlibertas2580 10 жыл бұрын

Very interesting talk.

@dafyddlewis89 10 жыл бұрын

amazing

@MeleeTiger 10 жыл бұрын

That underground village was just, wow.

@kglee3545 8 жыл бұрын

very impressive talking ted videos !

@WanieB 10 жыл бұрын

neat to see that people all over the world have the ingenuity to build structures for shelter that fit their needs. I think of when i was small i was always looking for a tiny corner to enclose to play. used to play in boxes turning them into a "house" or throw a sheet over a table for walls or just tie the sheet for a tent. But those people live in their inventions.

@arochacar 10 жыл бұрын

I agree with you Nelson Garcia. The tower of David has become a circus show for people outside Venezuela who do not have the slightest idea how big a problem it is for the city and the people who live on these structures designed for other purposes.

@williamjenkins4913 10 жыл бұрын

No matter how bad of a place to live that is its a place to live. It beats the hell out of being homeless. It would be nice if Venezuela got their shit together and figure out how to properly house their people but untill then people will do what they need to do. And that pretty cool.

@hopaloop 10 жыл бұрын

crying...

@JoshuaCooper 10 жыл бұрын

Did this video get published because of Homeland? Tower of David was in Sunday's episode! Awesome TED talk!

@MiLenaStoyanova90 10 жыл бұрын

wow,just wow

@windsgrace688 10 жыл бұрын

Human ingenuity prevails over all.

@martinseelig585 10 жыл бұрын

This talk should be wached by every arcitecture student!

@maxjosephwheeler 10 жыл бұрын

Notice how they never show the BATHROOMS!

@SatishGandhi 10 жыл бұрын

Nice

@MarkGarrett 10 жыл бұрын

This tower was actually featured in the most recent episode of Homeland.

@adinix2000 10 жыл бұрын

It would have been nice to see more about how they dealt with problems for these homes. I would like to know what happens when it rains in those underground homes, and how they keep it out. Maybe they don't.

@gtelles92 10 жыл бұрын

homeland!!!!

@DiazThumb 10 жыл бұрын

Enter here for Torre de David at Caracas, Venezuela... mankind is surprising

@Oberonjames 10 жыл бұрын

Everyone here seems to have found a way to get basic resources though. Not only that, but a lot of them had technology, like the floating cinema, and photo studio (those fake pictures of people standing in other parts of the world had to be produced with either backdrops or a green screen) the band on that canoe with a mixer hooked up to a generator and there were apartments in the Torre David that had flatscreens on their walls.

@terrylovesenegal 10 жыл бұрын

I must say though that those Chinese underground homes, well carved rooms and the little yards with trees were nice.

@TiborRoussou 10 жыл бұрын

So many of us (myself included) tend to forget how others live. We all deserve good living conditions. Like Gandhi said "The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed".

@iviewthetube 10 жыл бұрын

@15:19 Puts a whole new meaning in 'man caves.'

@theonlylanceleft 10 жыл бұрын

that is the coolest gym evaa!!

@MRSketch09 10 жыл бұрын

I'd say your no doubt right. In a society filled with laws, your constantly stressed about meeting not only basic obligations for yourself, food clothing and shelter, but a bunch of extra stuff that you wouldn't worry about in the situations the guru in the video describes.

@lindysim7847 10 жыл бұрын

However I believe more should be done to help some of these groups of people. The ability to adapt to these living conditions does not mean that they are in fact living in desirable living conditions that are beneficial for the well-being of these people, especially in the case of living amidst garbage.

@lindysim7847 10 жыл бұрын

"There is a plague of sameness that is killing human joy." While I wouldn't say that it is a joy to be subjected to such circumstances which often are the result of poverty and the lack of sufficient government intervention to alleviate the situations, it is admirable how these people could make full use of what they have on hand, and adapt to situations we would otherwise classify to be abnormal. Abnormality in our eyes has become their definition of normal.

@itamarferrer 10 жыл бұрын

The fact that the audience found humorous that the people's choice of "design" was covering 'brick with brick wallpaper' left me outraged. How could you laugh and not find empathise with another human being that just wants a better place to live....and to make that place a home with love and care.

@HelmyelsaidBlogspot 10 жыл бұрын

In Venzuela tower.

@joecairo1 10 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a mocking laugh, it was basic laughter at the idea of covering the brick wall with brick print wallpaper.. people would laugh no matter if they were poor or rich. An idea like that has comedic value, I'm sure you've seen movies that displays such humor..

@beabaila13 10 жыл бұрын

really, the conditions these people are living in aren't that bad, it's what they're used to, can we just celebrate the creativity and ingenuousness of these people? they aren't some mission trip community,

@IchNaturally 10 жыл бұрын

I was hoping to see the colorful slums outside Cape Town included here...

@0xAdam 10 жыл бұрын

Someone bought a new shirt this morning :-)

@unendlichmalnull 10 жыл бұрын

wooooow!! one question: what's the name of this "garbage town" and where its located???

@elisekhoury7718 5 жыл бұрын

it's located in Egypt called Zabaleen

@marcorubio2962 10 жыл бұрын

The chinese underground dwellings are just fascinating. Ingenious way to make a home without buying building materials

@krismarie9698 10 жыл бұрын

@edwin957 Heyya nice to see you again.....still struggling with my modeling career actually :(

@JinVerde1 10 жыл бұрын

Please get rid of the annoying ads that play simultaneously with the chosen video

@ALSAHAFI13 8 жыл бұрын

+JinVerde1 You can add a plug-in to your browser called "AdBlock Plus." I can't even remember the last time I watched a KZfaq ad on my computer.

@bnewton81 10 жыл бұрын

Who thinks that the guy in Homeland is in that tower at 3mins?

@JW77 10 жыл бұрын

Was that the tower where Sergeant Brody was kept in?

@gwenacebes5706 4 жыл бұрын

it was filmed there.

@asya_popova 5 жыл бұрын

Like... uhhh, people are creative :)

@Jonipoon 3 жыл бұрын

I feel Iwan Baan is romanticising poverty, and it's actually quite provoking how he's idealizing these people's lives as some sort of "admiration of humanity". He's wrong. I've lived in countries with high poverty. I've talked to people like those we see in this video. The reason why they may mind happiness and positive energy during those difficult circumstances is because humans are survivors. But rest assured, if they had the chance they'd move in a heartbeat to those newly constructed highrises and houses we see at the end of the video. Ironically, Iwan Baan has a negative view of those newly constructed houses which is even more mindboggling. What's his problem with these people getting a better quality of life?

@michaeljames1585 10 жыл бұрын

You can take anything from my home as long as you let me keep three things. My clean air, my large open space and my fridge.

@rodanhassan5780 10 жыл бұрын

I can see your point of view however this talk wasn't targeting crime rates or corruption, but the ingenuity of people. How they adapt to extremely bad infrastructure, how they use their creativity with limited resources and etc. Have a nice evening =)

@user-uq4bh6bd3v 3 жыл бұрын

6:06

@busterhymen8849 10 жыл бұрын

Latka!

@Ipang69 9 жыл бұрын

Life uh.. finds a way

@5to22a 10 жыл бұрын

Another example of why government intervention just doesn't cut it. Personal freedom and market freedom are where it's at!

@little_crew Жыл бұрын

6:08 15:00

@mielgosez 10 жыл бұрын

This situation in Venezuela is unacceptable taking into account that we had the highest revenues from oil industry in our history during the last 14 years. 14 years was more than enough for Dubai, but not here because our government was unable to solve most of the basics problems of our people! Sorry but the world must to know the reality of my country.

@Zeff1 10 жыл бұрын

Welcome to most of human history, and probably even the conditions of most people alive today.

@user-tu1jq5of2n Жыл бұрын

6:07 7:19

@TheLeadpepper 10 жыл бұрын

I need the wonder of this explained. I see an educated man passing thru severely unfair situations. Effectively, like colonial British/India romanticising the despair. I know that the resistance to despair is admirable, for centuries we have known that people will adapt to any situation, but being able to adapt does not make this romantic, for the insincere it eases the conscience. What is the average life expectancy. How safe are the young girls/boys from being raped or traded. No real answers

@droma51090 10 жыл бұрын

what about the plumbing..?

@HelmyelsaidBlogspot 10 жыл бұрын

New places.

@brek5 10 жыл бұрын

Did you not hear the end of the speech? He said something like "imagine what these people would be capable of if they had access to basic infrastructure." and he mentions the lack of government...hint, hint....corruption.

@ValentinoMustangs 10 жыл бұрын

People will be homeless in cities of America rather than go to the country and get off the grid. Id love to get out of the city and build my own small house, I do not want a mc mansion nore do I want the taxes to go with it.

@marianapie 10 жыл бұрын

Ingenious homes???.... mmm... or total inhumane nightmare!!!

@MonkeyKong21 10 жыл бұрын

as a wealthy nation with high quality of life and cutting edge technology, I think it's easily within our power to do the right thing and put and end to world poverty using nukes in these densely populated areas

@mielgosez 10 жыл бұрын

Who sells the apartments in David's Tower? the "apartments" aren't for free. There's a lot of gangs (I also know that not everybody living there are bad people) in there: once a worker from Costa Rica embassy was kidnapped and were found there. Yes, in David's Tower. As a Venezuelan I found this offensive.

@clearmenser 10 жыл бұрын

hopefully not too hard to empathize with them though, right?

@shsun3411 9 ай бұрын

한국인 나만 있음??😅

@prankmypants 10 жыл бұрын

itl be like this in uk if we dont leave the eu

@tssbhk1 10 жыл бұрын

I'm not impressed by homeless people

@bonzibuddy6640 4 жыл бұрын

Estoy en este video para estudiar y no entiendo ni mierda ah

@hyegaby 10 жыл бұрын

=';'= have you heard about underwater hotels????

@user-ik3br9ou8d 5 жыл бұрын

발음이 나만 어렵나?;;;

@ritamartins2051 10 жыл бұрын

No one is claiming it to be funny or the solution for the lack of homes here. And why so angry at the photographer? If anything, he is dignifying the portrayed communities with their DEFINITELY ingenious and creative solutions to overcome such necessity conditions, while creating awareness in the otherwise “clueless” developed countries that such bad living conditions are still in place ...

@nelsonline 10 жыл бұрын

Now you have all these architects praising torre de David as an example of IDK what (originality?)... I dare you to go live there or in any other slum in Caracas and tell me if that is a real model of architecture or just recipe for chaos... its easy to praise something you do not really understand specially when u come from a first world country, this soooo celebrated slum model doesnt solve any of the problems of the people it creates more and more problems

@armintaavila4056 6 жыл бұрын

He's not praising torre de David as an example of creativity. It's nt the point. The point is how humans can adapt to every type of condition and besides of the circumstances we empower those spaces and make them ours.

@jjsansano 10 жыл бұрын

mekoko mekoko mekoko

@OlgaLuciaPatino 10 жыл бұрын

Shoots might be good, people might seem very happy...I have to admit it, but due to critics about my comments, I must say Mr. Baan has been too much subtle, using hints. This should be evidence against many countries' corruption. TED is also a way to show evidence of countries' corruption.