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From the Ted Talk by Mathieu Lehanneur: Science-inspired design

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So, in this office, you do not work anymore at your desk, like a politician. Your seat, your sleep and your play on a big geodesic island made of leather. See, like this one? In this office you do not work and witre and draw on a sehet of paper, but you draw directly on a kind of huge whiteboard cave, like a prehistoric scientist. So you, like that, can make some sport during your work. In this oicffe you do not need to go out in order to be in contact with nature. You include, directly, the nature in the folor of the office. You can see it there.

This is an inspiration image to lead this project of the office. It really helped me to dsigen it. I never show it to my client. He would be so afraid. (Laughter) Just for my workshop. I guess it may be the revenge of the guinea pig I was. But it's maybe the ctinoovicn as monkey and hucluomnus we are. All of us need to be considered according to our real narute. Thank you very much. (Applause)

Open Cloze


So, in this office, you do not work anymore at your desk, like a politician. Your seat, your sleep and your play on a big geodesic island made of leather. See, like this one? In this office you do not work and _____ and draw on a _____ of paper, but you draw directly on a kind of huge whiteboard cave, like a prehistoric scientist. So you, like that, can make some sport during your work. In this ______ you do not need to go out in order to be in contact with nature. You include, directly, the nature in the _____ of the office. You can see it there.

This is an inspiration image to lead this project of the office. It really helped me to ______ it. I never show it to my client. He would be so afraid. (Laughter) Just for my workshop. I guess it may be the revenge of the guinea pig I was. But it's maybe the __________ as monkey and __________ we are. All of us need to be considered according to our real ______. Thank you very much. (Applause)

Solution


  1. write
  2. homunculus
  3. nature
  4. sheet
  5. office
  6. design
  7. conviction
  8. floor

Original Text


So, in this office, you do not work anymore at your desk, like a politician. Your seat, your sleep and your play on a big geodesic island made of leather. See, like this one? In this office you do not work and write and draw on a sheet of paper, but you draw directly on a kind of huge whiteboard cave, like a prehistoric scientist. So you, like that, can make some sport during your work. In this office you do not need to go out in order to be in contact with nature. You include, directly, the nature in the floor of the office. You can see it there.

This is an inspiration image to lead this project of the office. It really helped me to design it. I never show it to my client. He would be so afraid. (Laughter) Just for my workshop. I guess it may be the revenge of the guinea pig I was. But it's maybe the conviction as monkey and homunculus we are. All of us need to be considered according to our real nature. Thank you very much. (Applause)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
white noise 6
invisible reality 2
noise pollution 2
aggressive sound 2
smart object 2
fiber opticals 2
guinea pig 2
asthma treatment 2
living object 2
exhibition design 2
indoor air 2
local food 2
dirty water 2
aromatic plants 2


Important Words


  1. afraid
  2. anymore
  3. applause
  4. big
  5. cave
  6. client
  7. considered
  8. contact
  9. conviction
  10. design
  11. desk
  12. draw
  13. floor
  14. geodesic
  15. guess
  16. guinea
  17. helped
  18. homunculus
  19. huge
  20. image
  21. include
  22. inspiration
  23. island
  24. kind
  25. laughter
  26. lead
  27. leather
  28. monkey
  29. nature
  30. office
  31. order
  32. paper
  33. pig
  34. play
  35. politician
  36. prehistoric
  37. project
  38. real
  39. revenge
  40. scientist
  41. seat
  42. sheet
  43. show
  44. sleep
  45. sport
  46. whiteboard
  47. work
  48. workshop
  49. write