Share more space: Tarsha Finney at TEDxSydney

Solar panels and bike lanes will only take us so far. Tarsha Finney shares examples of a few ways we need to radically rethink how we inhabit spaces in the city and suburbs.

Tarsha Finney is an architectural urbanist, designer, curator and a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology. Her research interests cross several areas: domesticity and the problem of multi-residential housing with specific knowledge of the cities of New York, London, Beijing and Sydney; architectural typology and notions of disciplinary change and transformation; and the architectural urbanism of creativity and innovation in cities.

TEDxSydney 2012 took place on Saturday 26 May 2012 at Carriageworks. Tens of thousands of people enjoyed the day: 800 in the theatre, over 1,000 via big screen simulcast in The Forum, many thousands online via YouTube and ABC Big Ideas ... and up to 80,000 tuning in to ABC Radio National.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations.)