1 What TED Said. In 1984, the Philadelphia architect Richard Saul Wurman, FAIA, launched TED-short for technology, entertainment, and design-as a one-off event intended to be a multidisciplinary forum for "ideas worth spreading." Since then, it's become an annual series of conferences that serves as populist bellwethers of innovation and storytelling for the creative class, which has included architects from the beginning of TED's three-decade run.
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