July 13, 2020 – TEDx Koprivnica Library was held in a new setting, but the feeling is the same: great speakers, creatives, and thinkers inspired the full house.
Drava.info writes about the first edition of the TEDx Koprivnica Library held in ENTER, the creative industry incubator, which welcomed five remarkable speakers.
Melita Pavlek is a local Koprivnica woman, who shared her advice on how to live a happier and simpler life if we just learned some lessons from our pets: how to live in a moment, how to pay more attention and catch non-verbal cues, how to be curious and how to rest and be active on your own terms.
Kristina Čunović told the crowd about her project bringing together incarcerated parents with their children through reading. The parent participating gets to record a story that then gets delivered to their child, who gets to experience their parent reading a story to them. A simple idea, which helped strengthen family bonds in over 600 families in Croatia.
Paul Bradbury wants to inspire Croatian politicians and bureaucrats to change the country we live in, and he’s certainly succeeded in inspiring the audience to change the way THEY see Croatia. In his 20 years in Croatia, he’s gotten to know the best and the worst of our country, and he spoke about the fantastic lifestyle in Croatia: it’s safe, it’s in the EU, the infrastructure is good, the food and the wine are excellent. Foreigners don’t understand why people would want to leave this country. He admitted that he fully appreciated how Croatia works only after hearing about the phenomenon of uhljeb. He presented the concept of Cromads, his solution for the development of Croatia, focusing on people who work from home, and want to move to a place that has the best lifestyle in Europe, and he thinks it’s Croatia. He feels like that is the real opportunity for Croatian development and not tourism.
Karla Čurin told her story of overcoming barriers to achieve her goals, as she’s been struggling with the severe hearing loss her whole life. She found herself in the graphic design and application building, and she developed Oaza, a mobile app that helps people suffering from depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts.
The Boljar Brothers, Hrvoje and Domagoj, spoke about their brand MIRET, the eco-friendly sneakers. They’re the pioneers in being eco-friendly in an industry which is among the leading producers of waste in the world today, as 23 billion sneakers get made each year, and most of what they’re made of can’t be recycled. They use recyclable materials to manufacture their sneakers, which don’t damage the environment, and they look great too!
