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TED Talks: Season 2013

2013x124 Paul Pholeros: How to reduce poverty? Fix homes
TV-PG

  • 2013-06-20T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
In 1985, architect Paul Pholeros was challenged by the director of an Aboriginal-controlled health service to "stop people getting sick" in a small indigenous community in south Australia. The key insights: think beyond medicine and fix the local environment. In this sparky, interactive talk, Pholeros describes projects undertaken by Healthabitat, the organization he now runs to help reduce poverty--through practical design fixes--in Australia and beyond. (Filmed at TEDxSydney.) Paul Pholeros is a director of Healthabitat, a longstanding effort to improve the health of indigenous
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